Intrepid Ventures is focused on Deep Tech, defined as fascinating science and technology that can change the world. Investing across Energy, Aerospace, QC, AI/ML, Synthetic Biology, Medical Devices, etc.

Meta, with properties Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, holds three of the top four slots in social media with nearly three billion, two billion, and two billion monthly active users, respectively.Responsible for AI Infrastructure, Data Infra, Privacy Infra, server budget and allocation, Technical Program Management, Hardware Engineering, ASIC development, architecture reviews, and the long-term infrastructure plan. Responsible for delivering and optimizing $120B/five-year Infrastructure capital spend.

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was started in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and to rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near, and around the data center’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. OCP’s collaboration model is being applied beyond the data center, helping to advance the telecom industry & EDGE infrastructure.Responsible for leading the board while the organization expanded its scope to include AI/ML hardware and telco gear. Served as Facebook's representative on the board.

ink2 is a venture funded consumer website, CardStore.com, and white-label print provider for Snapfish, Photoworks, Kodak Gallery, Papyrus, Hallmark and American Greetings. Responsible for technical strategy, tactics, and operations.• Launched new integrations with Hallmark, American Greetings, and Papyrus.• Upgraded engineering team within six months.• Modernized the technology, and delivered on 30x increases in volume during the holiday seasons.• In first year, expanded capabilities and scaled existing production environment. Resulted in banner holiday season with 50% year-over-year increase in card volume, 25 new products, and a sustained peak of 240,000 printed cards shipped per day.• Relaunched CardStore.com as a web 2.0 site with a new AJAX card personalization and print rendering engine. The CardStore platform has become the focus of ink2’s business.

Lucidity was a white-label gift certificate platform with user-transparent integrations. Partnered with: Borders, Lands End, KBKids, Beautyscene.com, ChipShot, Ebags, Greatcoffee.com, Great-Food.com, HealthShop, Illuminations, Miadora, Magazines.com, Danschocolates.com, Ivendor.com. Responsible for all aspects of technology and product delivery.• Hired and organized technical teams in San Francisco and New York within two months.• Launched eCommerce website capable of handling heavy traffic from one of the most popular websites in four months.

BlueMountain.com was the first popular electronic greeting card website. Responsible for every aspect of scaling and operations.• Hired and led the engineering team.• Architected and deployed scalable groups of servers to two primary datacenters consiting of 200 servers each.• Delivered 100% uptime and excellent performance that resulted in 7 to 10 times annual traffic growth.• In December of 1999 BlueMountain.com was the 7th most popular website on the Internet, serving 14 million visitors that month.• BlueMountain.com was acquired by Excite@Home in October of 1999 for $780m. At that time, our fully loaded cost per 1000 page views was 1/10th the average Excite@Home service.