About me
Rory, from Australia, based in San Francisco and LA.
I studied Law and Engineering and hold a J.D. and M.D.s.
My DMs and emails are getting bombarded ever since our last capital raise announcement, please reach out if important but unfortunately I cannot respond to all messages.
Co-Founder - Checkmate. 4th most promising consumer startup in the world (2023) [The Information].
Featured in the press:
My wikipedia page (here).
Checkmate listed as 4th most promising consumer startup in the world (here).
Featured in the Wall Street Journal talking about Cold Plunging and Health (here).
Google Ventures, Paris Hilton back Aussie startup with $23m (here).
Shopping app Checkmate raises $15M Series A (here).
Featured in Times Square as 100 fastest growing companies (here).
Celebrity investors pile into consumer savings app (here).
Paris Hilton, The Chainsmokers and Google back savings app (here).
Podcast: Taking savings to #1 in the app store (here).
Aussie mates bank millions for Silicon Valley online shopping start-up (here).
Featured on front page of Techcrunch (here).
5 million USD capital raise (here).
Previously:
Engineer at Apple working on the iPhones (iPhone 11 to iPhone 14 era) aka the golden age.
Intellectual Property:
- Method to derive transportation tracking codes [USPTO] 2022
- Method to supply custom content based on sparse merchant data [USPTO] 2022
- Minimum inhibitory determination using flow cytometry [UWA] 2019
Thoughts on stuff:
- The problem with product managers in big tech (2022) (here).
- Why Web3 in its current form won't go mainstream (2021) (here).
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