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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