Founder CEO @ Speechify, we're hiring! 🚀 | Forbes 30 Under 30 | Changing Lives With Text-To-Speech 🎧

&#x1F30E;The #1 Text to Speech App in the World &#x1F680; Speechify now ranks above The Economist, BBC, TIME, Bloomberg, Yahoo News, Flipboard, NPR, Fox, MSNBC, The Washington Post, USA, etc. in the news category of the app store just because it is so much easier to consume information with it's technology via audio than by simply reading with your eyes.Using Deep Learning (AI) we let you turn any text into a high quality Audio Book: Scan with your camera, upload a PDF, or import a website. Long-term: Creating YouTube for Audio -> Media platform/ Auditory operating system.Short-term: Super fast growing consumer subscription product.We regularly get messages from users who tell us they cried when they started using Speechify because it was so life altering in the amount of time it saves them.
    
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Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. 

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. A lot has changed since the first Google search engine appeared. But some things haven’t changed: our dedication to our users and our belief in the possibilities of the Internet itself.

Google

I had almost $80K worth of school loans but wanted to work for myself after graduation. So, I hired a team of 10 virtual assistants in the Philippines and coached them to find and apply to scholarships for me. I made a 3,540% return on my investment in 4 months and paid off most of my loans.As the final project for my Software Engineering class at Brown I worked with friends to build a suite of tools to automate much of this work for my team in the Philippines. Then, we wrote a system that would automatically hire new virtual assistants and assign them to clients who paid for the service (http://findmescholarships.com/). Sold out capacity in less than a week.The final project was worth 42% of our grade in the class. We got a 100% score.
    
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• While I was at Make School, my 14 student cluster published more apps than any other cluster in the history of the school. Three apps per student instead of the usual one. Of the top 6 apps built in the program, 4 were from my cluster.• I lead my students on runs with me in the morning before school, got them to start going to sleep on time, and got many of them to start listening to one audiobook every week.• Lectured on software engineering to 147 students. Co-lead instructor at Make School's HQ.
    
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120,000+ downloads in 67 countrieshttps://appsto.re/us/VC2P-.i


Was assigned a team of engineers to run. Coordinated work using Jira and GitHub.Personally wrote NLP software in Python for category normalization. By the end of my internship, products found using the engine we built regularly sold out and increased our bottom line.



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I originally built WeMap as a valentines day present for my girlfriend. It allows couples to build an interactive scrapbook/map of their favorite past date locations and to find new date locations. Enough people asked "How can I make a present like this for my significant other?" That I made WeMap user facing and released it to the app store. I built WeMap in Swift using Parse for my database. 25+ five star reviews on the app store: https://appsto.re/us/2KDw5.i
    
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WeMap allows couples to build interactive maps of their favorite date locations and to find new date locations. I built WeMap in Swift using Parse for my database. It has over two dozen five star reviews on the app store, check it out: https://appsto.re/us/2KDw5.i

WeMap

I built BoardBrake after a friend fell and got injured on my longboard. I developed 42 design iterations for it and 12 prototypes using 3D printing and casting. I recruited & led 2 engineers and 3 industrial designers from Stanford, MIT, RISD, and Brown to help me do it, interviewed 131 potential customers in Lean Startup Methodology, and won 2nd place at Stanford's Startup competition and 1st place at MIT's Startup Competition.During this process I learned jus how unnecessarily complicated filing a provisional patent can be. I didn't want anyone else to have to go through the hassle I'd just gone through, so, I synthesized all I'd learned into an 8 minutes video that would allow someone to skip all the complication and do it in 20 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9t1hJwzd38 This video has now been watched 50,000+ times, I get at least one email a week from someone who watched it, and it is still the number one video result on google for "How to file a provisional patent".
    
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BoardBrake is an attachable, foot activated brake for longboards. It can be mounted to any board within 2 minutes and removed without leaving a trace.

BoardBrake

CellArmor blocks cellphone radiation from affecting people's reproductive organs to prevent potential cancer, birth defects, and decreased sperm count by creating a mini faraday cage in your pocket. http://cellarmor.weebly.com/


Offers 10%-20% off at 8 restaurants to Brown/RISD Students. Over 60 cards sold and 100+ facebook likes within 24 hours of launching.


About us

  YumPass, LLC is a dining discount program for college students in the Greater Providence area. We maintain business relationships with local restaurants and small businesses in order to provide them with innovative marketing techniques to increase revenue and customer traffic within the college-aged demographic through on-site and online strategies.

YumPass

Brown is heaven on earth for me: Three weeks into freshman year my cheeks started to hurt from smiling too much, then I just got use to it. Loves the Ratty more than anyone you've ever heard of.

Located in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh-oldest college in the United States. Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs, plus the Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the School of Professional Studies.

With its talented and motivated student body and accomplished faculty, Brown is a leading research university that maintains a particular commitment to exceptional undergraduate instruction. Brown’s vibrant, diverse community consists of about 6,200 undergraduates, 2,000 graduate students, 490 medical school students, more than 5,000 summer, visiting, and online students, and over 700 faculty members.

Brown students come from all 50 states and more than 115 countries. Undergraduates pursue bachelor’s degrees in more than 70 concentrations, ranging from Egyptology to cognitive neuroscience. Anything’s possible at Brown—the university’s commitment to undergraduate freedom means students must take responsibility as architects of their courses of study.

Brown University has 51 doctoral programs and 28 master’s programs. The broad scope of options vary from interdisciplinary opportunities in molecular pharmacology and physiology to a master’s program in acting and directing through the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium.

Around the world, nearly 90,000 Brown alumni are - in the words of Brown’s charter - leading lives of “usefulness and reputation” in every imaginable field of endeavor. Through events around the globe, reunions on campus, career resources, a host of online connections, and other services, the Brown Alumni Association fosters and supports a vibrant alumni community, wherever its members may be.

Brown University

RISD is down the road from Brown, so I got to take classes in Industrial and Graphic Design at the number one ranked design school in the world.

Rhode Island School of Design

Stanford University is one of the world's leading research universities. Stanford is known for its entrepreneurial character, drawn from the legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford, and its relationship to Silicon Valley. Research and teaching stress interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Areas of excellence range from the humanities to social sciences to engineering and the sciences. Stanford is located in California's Bay Area, one of the most intellectually dynamic and culturally diverse areas of the nation.

Founder CEO at Speechify

Speechify

Founder CEO

Google

Google BOLD Immersioner & Google Student Ambassador

FindMeScholarships

Founder

Make School

Computer Science Instructor

StarterPack

iOS Software Engineer

RetailMeNot, Inc.

Product Management Intern

WeMap

iOS Software Engineer

BoardBrake

CEO & Founder

CellArmor

Product Developer, Founder

YumPass

Co-Founder - Sales & Partnerships

Freerunning & Parkour

Athlete/Coach

Brown University

Economics

Renewable Energy Engineering (physics, computer science, & engineering)

Rhode Island School of Design

Industrial and Product Design

Stanford University

(Was not actually a student at Stanford)

StartX Accelerator Program - Summer '18 Batch.

Redwood High School

Class Rank: 1st Decile, Advanced Placement Scholar