Lifemap (history in 100 characters or less)Childhood in Kelso and Longview WA (1983-1998)• Grows up in a rural town with a single mother and two brothers• Survives a car accident - age 5, causing a lifelong neck injury (kept secret from him)• Starts his first business - age 6 (selling plums)• Develops a love for reading and intellectual pursuits as an escape from family challenges• Discovers his fourth cousin, Linus Pauling, is the only two-time solo Nobel Prize winner (chemistry, world peace) - age 10• Moves in with his grandfather Jack - age 14High School Years (1998-2002)• Elected a Washington DECA state officer• Becomes a highly-recruited baseball prospect, throwing a 91+ mph fastball• Neck injury resurfaces, causing a significant drop in fastball velocity• Elected Washington DECA State President• Signs to play baseball for the Washington Huskies• Wins National DECA Presidency and takes a gap year to serveCollege Years at the University of Washington (2002-2006)• Redshirts on the baseball team but retires to pursue tech entrepreneurship• Starts a baseball training and e-commerce business called PitchSmarter• Co-founds I Love Baseball, a non-profit in the Dominican RepublicEarly Entrepreneurial Ventures (2006-2012)• Sells baseball business to start his first tech company, a social network for sports history (YourSports)• Survives the Great Financial Crisis, moves YS to Silicon Valley, teams up with Rag (lifelong CTO) to buildBuilding Sports While Exploring Policy and Data (2012-2014)• Builds up the social network to 4mm semantically connected sports, interest, and geographical networks• Files for a Bitcoin-based wallet patent, beginning his crypto innovation journey• Recognized by Marc Andreessen as one of "55 Unknown Rockstars in Tech"• Starts Data4America, a nonprofit exploring policy and dataFootprint and the Birth of STORE (2014-2018)• Retires from YourSports and starts Footprint, a chat system for franchises & chains• Marries Ciara, a native San Franciscan and UCLA track star (steeplechaser!)• Realizes the potential of zero-fee settlement in the app and AI layers• Begins engineering STORE, a decentralized democracy, and designing the BlockFinBFT consensus algorithmBuilding and Launching STORE (2018-present)• Twin daughters born• Researches and builds STORE, a democratized cloud• Receives U.S. patents for BlockFinBFT and more• Ships permanent storage+ on STORE and launches the first verifiable, high-performance cloud• Finally leans in to his connection to the Pauling family's intellectual legacy