I'm a co-founder & CEO of Glowforge, the 3D laser printer. Glowforge had the biggest crowdfunding campaign in history, with $27.9M in preorders in 30 days. Glowforge makes it simple for designers and engineers to take take products directly from digital design to reality.

I'm also the author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook, published by O'Reilly. Before founding Glowforge, I accidentally launched the bestselling boardgame in Kickstarter history when I crowdfunded Robot Turtles, a game that teaches programming fundamentals to preschoolers. Before my detour as a boardgame designer, I spent two years as CEO of Google Comparison, Inc, a Google subsidiary that operates comparison shopping products. I landed at Google when they bought my previous company, comparison shopping website Sparkbuy. Before Sparkbuy, I was founder and CEO of Photobucket Inc. (formerly Ontela) and was named CEO of the Year by MobileBeat.

I've been featured on NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and on the front page of the New York Times. I'm a mentor for the Founder's Institute, 500 Startups, and Techstars. I've been awarded a dozen US patents, and received my B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. And, most importantly, I'm a lucky dad.