Over the last decade I've been making the world healthy and blissful. I'm the Founder of garten, a top Ycombinator and Stanford StartX company, and a top corporate wellbeing provider.

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I'm a visionary CEO and changemaker with the following results:
• $200M+ in revenue generated
• $125M+ in equity & debt funding raised from top tier VC funds, highest valuation of $1B achieved
• Industry leading customer experience & metrics: 80+ NPS, 9 CSAT, 25 LTV / CAC, 8 month CAC recovery, 124% YoY growth, 130% net retention
• Created technology platform vision and acquired 4 companies to enhance product portfolio
• Built & led very diverse team of more than 650 people from top technology & professional services companies
• 2 years of profitability
• Crisis management: survived and led company safely through 90% revenue drop during COVID
• Frequently featured in media such as Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Inc, Fox, Cheddar TV, History Channel, YCombinator, Stanford, Harvard Business Review, and the Information.
• Invested in many unicorn companies at early stages
• Teaching: my Hacking Consciousness class was the only Stanford class to be selected for Apple’s Best of Collection that year.

Other experience:
• Board of Trustees Member at MIU
• Mentor and lecturer at Stanford University
• Angel and venture partner for Pioneer Fund
• Bridgewater Associates (responsible for $65B in trades a day via portfolio construction strategy)
• Bain & Co, consulted Fortune 500 companies
• Technical product management & engineering at SAP and Microsoft (shaped strategic vision of xApps Duet + MSDN academic alliance and ImagineCup)

Education:
• Stanford (Threshold Venture Fellow, OnTrack Innovation Scholar)
• Harvard
• UC Berkeley (summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Americorps Bonner Leader)

Awards:
• Top YCombinator company
• Top 100 Entrepreneur
• Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology
• Top Corporate Wellbeing Provider
• Top Remote Friendly Workplace
• YPO
• StartX
• Threshold Ventures Fellow, OnTrack Innovation Fellow, Cleantech Fellow
• Apple’s best of award for Hacking Consciousness Class

I attribute my blissfulness to a committed daily meditation practice, a lifelong love of healthy eating that was inspired by my grandma who is a retired medical doctor in Germany and her organic garden, and an equally healthy sense of humor. One of my favorite hobbies is Shaolin Kung Fu – I enjoy performing the nine section whip, front handsprings and black dragon twists in competitions and in San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade.