Raised throughout Latin America, I now live in L.A. I am a tech founder, and occasionally angel invest. I love working to increase access:
I am currently collaborating on an open-source cryptographic primitive, aimed at allowing everyone to secure their most valuable data and assets.
I co-founded goTenna, with the goal of increasing access to connectivity. goTenna hardware and our Aspen Grove mesh protocol enable communications independent of cell, wifi, and even satellite. Over the last decade, we’ve become the global leader in mobile mesh networking.
I started a national volunteer project, aimed at increasing voters’ access to information about core societal issues through the lens of a grassroots political candidate’s record. (Founding statement here.)
Here’s a list of books I love and recommend:
Apeirogon by Collum McCann
How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
Democracy by Joan Didion
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog
La ronde de nuit (Night Rounds) by Patrick Modiano
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Toward a Psychology of Awakening by John Welwood
No Bad Parts by Richard D. Schwartz
El diario de Frida Kahlo (The Diary of Frida Kahlo) by Frida Kahlo
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Raising the Floor by Andy Stern
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer