On AI co-founders, finance infrastructure, execution friction, and building from a terminal.
Four arguments for why finance is the natural entry point for building intelligence infrastructure across an entire company.
Every extra screen, click, and context switch between what I want and what happens is friction. Friction compounds.
800K-token context windows. 60-90 minute focused work sessions. Humans work the same way. The reason AI collaboration feels natural isn't because the AI is smart.
I left institutional finance because I wanted to build things, not move numbers between Bloomberg screens. Two startups later, something clicked.