Aspiring mad scientist, founder & former CEO of ZeroCater, maker of technology inspired art, and occasional investor. Lives in San Francisco. Pronounced Āh-rām. @arram

In 2009 I started ZeroCater. That story is here.
In 2015 we announced surpassing $100m total sales. I also gave a talk at HustleCon about how things go very wrong for most startups and the importance of not getting discouraged.
In 2016 some friends and I started The Archive – a communal living house with ten sixteen twenty-two residents. I now consider this one of the best decisions I ever made.
In 2017 I invested in Longevity Fund, which invests in early stage biotech companies working on increasing human healthspan. I was also (very incidentally) mentioned in a New Yorker article on Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever.
In 2018 after nine years of running ZeroCater I handed over the reins to our amazing COO (now CEO). I remain involved as Chairman of the Board. I was also interviewed on The Morning Show about what it’s like to live at The Archive
2019 was a year of rest and travel with some tinkering on projects.
Interests
- Science & Engineering
- Solving Aging
- Making better decisions
- Effective Altruism
- Existential Risk Reduction
- Startup Investing
- Coliving
Favorite essays and videos
- The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant – Nick Bostrom
- Astronomical Waste – Nick Bostrom
- Remedial Worldly Wisdom – Charlie Munger
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- Elon Musk on what it takes
- Ira Glass on how long it takes to get good
- Ben Horowitz on The Struggle
- What You’ll Wish You’d Known – Paul Graham
- Cargo Cult Science – Richard Feynman
- A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism
The Most Important Graph in the World
