I currently live in San Francisco, CA and work on applied AI for a new kind of holding company. Before this, I started and sold Superdrop, an AI company backed by Lux Capital, Box Group, A-Star, and others. I grew up in Romania and studied at Princeton.

Areas of interest:

• AI-enabled services: How can we use AI to grow great services companies? This is Long Lake's core mission.
• Consumer AI: What is the next big consumer app? Tried to explore this at Superdrop by building:
  • Cami (heycami.com): AI assistant that grew to over 1M monthly active users
  • DreamTavern.ai: AI-generated storytelling and roleplaying platform
• Developer tools: In my heart, I have a special place for tools that make programmers more productive. I was a software engineer at Retool and I'm the author of some useful open-source libraries, including form-genie and promptfactory.
• Crypto: Growing up in Romania, I learned not to take economic freedom for granted. I'm excited about technologies that enable it.
  • I worked on Marble Wallet, a wallet that would make it easier for anyone to own digital assets and interact with web3 apps.
  • I also contributed to Balaji Srinivasan's 1729 project.
• Brain-machine interfaces: I'm really excited about this field (I wrote my undergraduate thesis on using BMIs to translate thoughts into speech). I believe that this field will grow in importance as AGI gets closer.