I'm Ben
I like to solve hard problems and build fantastic products that people love.
Some bullet points on my life:
- grew up in the Boston area
- first love was computers (Macintosh, Monkey Island, BASIC)
- received no formal education between 6th grade and college
- second love was movies (AFI’s “100 Years… 100 Movies”)
- third love was philosophy and language (Japanese, German)
- studied abroad in Japan (Summer ‘04 Hokkaido, Summer ‘05 Shiga, ‘05-‘06 Hokkaido on MEXT scholarship)
- worked in Tokyo for 8 years (3 years teaching English, 5 in software and startups)
- cofounded and built Tadaku (Tokyo, acquired 2015)
- now I’m working on the incredible grocery catalog at Instacart in San Francisco
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