In this regular series, PitchBook speak to various players in the private equity and venture capital spaces—including startup founders, investors and noteworthy dealmakers—to see what daily life looks like for them.
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What led you to your current role?
After 9/11, I went to MIT and did mathematical modeling, focusing on counterinsurgency. I ended up spending a number of years as a contractor for various organizations such as the Department of Defense, Microsoft, the Bank of England, ExxonMobil and others. I soon realized that there was an opportunity to build a next-generation simulation platform that would help transform how people make decisions.
This ability to simulate our world to a sufficient level of detail that it would inform our decision-making deeply captured my imagination. So after 15 or so years of building these simulations with all this commercial software, I realized that I could do it better. Three years ago we built a minimum viable product and entered an accelerator program in 2017—that’s when it really took off.
