Moving to New York
I moved to New York in 2023. I'm from the area originally, and after six years in Providence it was time for a change. What drew me to New York was the density of the founder ecosystem. I'd begun to realize how much it mattered to be around other smart, ambitious people — and New York just has more of them by sheer gravity.
Building the team
As Pangea matured, the team became increasingly remote and global. We moved away from needing everyone in one place and started hiring based on talent, not geography — which, for a company building a global talent marketplace, felt like the right way to practice what we preached.
From campus to global
The New York chapter coincided with Pangea's biggest strategic shift. We moved from being a campus-oriented marketplace to a professionally oriented fractional marketplace focused on AI-native talent. The platform expanded to talent in over 150 countries. It was a fundamentally different business than what we'd started with in that Brown accelerator, but the core thesis was the same: connect great people with great work, and make the process as frictionless as possible.
Starting founder communities
My friends Akash and Mike and I saw an opportunity to cultivate something more intentional. We started the NYC Founders Club as a curated community of founders we genuinely wanted to spend time with. We built it to our own tastes and standards: intimate dinners, meaningful collisions, a space where ambitious people could be honest with each other. It turned into something I care about as much as Pangea.