Building the future

Former Microsoft Senior Designer turned philanthropic entrepreneur — I became an AI-native, designer, and builder in the process.

I harbor a background in both enterprise SaaS and startup 0-to-1 environments with a verifiable track record of delivering world-first innovation.

Most recently, I founded and built a company from the ground up in pursuit of making the world a kinder and more authentic place to call home. How? By returning social media to its original purpose! Real humans connecting on the internet — no bots, no misinformation, and images and videos you can trust to be real. Crazy idea, right? I'm incredibly proud to say we were successful. Octopii Social is a modest but kind and authentic social platform which is growing every day. The platform has matured to the extent I’m now looking for my next challenge.

I’ve fully adopted AI-assisted design, engineering, program management, communication and research — I am able to iterate on the end product in real time and maintain coherency across the entire production ecosystem, from meeting notes to QA. At any given time I’m running 5-10 Claude terminals. We’ve become good friends. One thing I’ve discovered over thousands of hours with Claude — if he’s using a lot of exclamation points, you’re probably on the innovation track.

If I were compelled to compare myself, I would say my most differentiated skillset is strategy, ideation, and vision. The concepts from my ideations are often developed and released years later.

A Microsoft peer once wrote “Jeremy has an incredible ability to ingest net-new information and transform it into actionable insights” — given a problem, I will produce a suite of informed solutions and provide strategic guidance as to the best option given any number of conditions, constraints, and priorities of multiple parties, from business goals and organizational needs to technical constraints and customer requirements. I enjoy this process as much or more than building solutions themselves.

My ideal day is one in which I’m able to exercise all of these strengths simultaneously with sufficient autonomy to innovate, solve, and iterate as quickly as possible. Give me a puzzle or problem, the more complex the better, and I will demonstrate what I do best.