I grew up in Davis, California and arrived at UC Berkeley studying economics, data science, and education — I left knowing I wanted to be close to where businesses are built. At BCG, I ran commercial due diligences embedded inside a Private Equity practice. From there, growth equity at Serent Capital: lower-middle-market SaaS, hands-on portfolio operations, and a platform deal I sourced and led end-to-end. Now at Llama Ventures, I back Pre-Seed and Seed founders building AI-native companies — leading technical diligence, joining boards, and asking the same question every time: what’s actually defensible?