Howdy, I’m Stew.
I’m an entrepreneur who likes to write.
My writing focuses on a handful of related themes: reimagining what our careers can be, striving, and how we can leverage the Internet to accelerate our careers and impact.
My story in 12 bullet points:
Born on the coast of Virginia. Grew up surfing and cleaning out old ladies’ attics for money.
Taught myself how to write code after a scammer posing as a for-hire software engineer stole my life savings.
Co-founded and led engineering at one of the first publicly-traded tech companies in the cannabis industry.
Burned out and quit.
Started journaling to figure out what to do next. Fell back in love with writing. Started this blog.
Took my first vacation in 5 years. Went to the Galapagos Islands with Richard Dawkins. Gave him good book advice and terrible investment advice.
Launched a satirical newsletter called TechLoaf (think: The Onion for the tech industry). For a moment, I thought it might be a good business. It wasn’t.
Decided to start another startup. Cold emailed Paul Allen’s AI2 Incubator and helped spin out a text-to-speech company called WellSaid (they just raised a $10M Series A).
Once WellSaid was off the ground, a friend recruited me to join his startup Banzai as their CTO. I led engineering there through a $7M Series A.
Burned out again. Quit.
Decided to merge my personal passions with my business pursuits. Otherwise, I’d burn out again. The jury is still out on this one.
Most recently, co-founded Type to help people write better and faster with the help of AI.
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