I Left Medicine for Startups. No Regrets. (Mostly.)

It was a summer like any other. There I was, at my lab bench at Sunnybrook Hospital, dissecting my third mouse of the day as part of my pre-med research on metformin and diabetes. It had been a great internship, and I was genuinely starting to picture myself on that path — research, medicine and more patient-oriented care. But as I wrapped up my experiments one afternoon and walked through those ever-busy hospital halls, something quietly clicked: this wasn't it for me.

I loved the science — genuinely. But what I loved even more were the people and the problems. The intellectual challenge of diagnosing complexity. The deeply human stakes. I just didn't need the blood and guts to get there.

That Fall, I landed a role at a tech startup , and everything changed. I'd found my version of medicine — high stakes, fast-moving, and deeply human — just without the lab coat.

From there I spent years building across startups and nonprofits, leading teams, forging partnerships, and figuring out go-to-market from the ground up. Each role taught me something different: startups taught me velocity and resourcefulness; nonprofits taught me mission-driven clarity and how to do more with less. Across both worlds, I kept running into the same invisible enemy — fragmentation. Too many tools, too much context-switching, too much time spent managing systems instead of doing actual work.

That frustration eventually led me to Clevaura. We're building what I always wished existed, but we’ve taken it further. Clevaura is the first AI-Native Office Suite that provides a comprehensive workspace where you can build, create, manage, collaborate and automate –  powered by frontier autonomous agents that execute complex workflows across the entire system on your behalf.

No more duct-tape stacks. No more app fatigue.

I'm here to connect with builders, founders, and operators who feel the same friction. Would love to hear what tools are costing you the most headspace right now. 👋