Lately I've been building DrugOS at WELT — a platform that upgrades pills with AI. I also invest and advise via Genaxis, a Seoul-based accelerator backing bio, tech, and consumer.

Against my father's advice, I invest in things I want to exist: J24, a private dining room in Cheongdam; HideMePlease, which connects offline retail with AI; and Peopet, cradle-to-grave pet care.

Before this I was at PillPack (acquired by Amazon) and Pear Therapeutics, and a venture partner at Contrary. I sat on the board of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, which defined the digital therapeutics industry before it merged into the American Telemedicine Association. I was also Chief of Staff at Charmacist, where we built 반팜 — now used by roughly one in three pharmacies in Korea.

Made in Korea, designed in the USA. I'm a second-generation pharmacist, trained in Boston, where I found my love for tech and startups.

My friends call me an old white soul trapped in the body of a young Asian man. Frank Sinatra is one of my most played artists, along with jazz, city pop, and rock and roll. I'm crazy for coffee, tea, whisky, and beer, and for these elixirs I go to the source — Costa Rica, Taiwan, Islay, Kentucky, Belgium — to taste them and learn their founding stories.

Lately I've been chasing an idea I call applied culture, which arrived while I was pacing through Tokyo museums wondering which human qualities survive the age of AI. Applied science uses scientific knowledge to solve real problems. Applied culture uses your own experience and taste to do the same — Steve Jobs bringing Zen to Apple, for instance.

Taste like that has to be cultivated, and cultivating it means capturing the moments worth keeping. This site is my attempt at that.