I'm building Vanta. By changing economic incentives, I think we can make companies more secure.
A lifetime ago (c 2015-16), I helped bring Dropbox Paper to market and built tools to make programming easier. Previously, I made other things that taught me to build on and for the internet.
I started my career at USV, which I enjoyed—until I realized that, as the internet seeps into everything, the future belongs to people who make things. At the time, quitting my job to learn to program felt like a huge switch, and I wrote about it here and here. In retrospect, it wasn't a big deal.
My internet began in the mid 90s, reading Beanie Baby forums and flipping my old toys on eBay. I grew up in the Midwest, reading about and dreaming of Palo Alto garages, and still bleed scarlet and gray. I like books, microeconomics, running up hills, oil paintings (especially Renaissance, Dutch, Haitian, Magritte L'Empire des lumières), the NBA, 80s and 90s women's gymnastics, and contemporary East African politics.
I occasionally angel invest in areas I have worked in before:
If you’re curious for more, christinacaci on Twitter, christinac on Github, ccacioppo on LinkedIn (consistency is overrated.)