Based in London, I’m British-Lebanese and grew up in various countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe. I love terrible jokes, beautifully crafted sandwiches and looking at designer houses I will never live in. I like to torment my children with my piano playing and spend more time than is reasonable making lists of things, à la High Fidelity.
Get in touch if you ever want to chat all things scaling when it comes to startups! Just stick hello in front of this site.
What I’m doing now
Generic Exec Person @ PostHog
Stuff I’ve written
What I’ve done before
founder @ hedgehog.vc
- Created a VC fund from scratch during a 48-hour hackathon, focused on early-stage open source investing, made one investment and they got into YC
- Now retired after making one investment (phew)
COO @ Vitl
- Looked after ops, product, R&D, CS, and legal
- Was interim CTO for a lot longer than was sensible
- Ran process for 2 big licensing deals to giant pharma companies
Various @ ROLI
- $0 -> $XXm ARR, 15 people -> 150, $4m raised -> $70m
- Did basically every non-engineering role (all ops flavours, product, Chief of Staff, program management, etc.)
- Met Stevie Wonder
Where I’ve studied
- University of Cambridge - BA Hons, Law
- SOAS, University of London - MSc, Public Policy & Management
- Imperial College, London - MBA
I learned nothing about startups at any of these places
Books I’m reading
I use Storygraph and always appreciate a recommendation
I keep a separate study list of things I find interesting here