Alex, a
Y Combinator alum, attended the University of Texas at Austin as
a
Business Honors student. He founded
Venture Weekend
(now hosted in
Vancouver,
Austin,
Stanford,
and at
Startup House), and
Snipd; his first startup in high-school enabled classmates to bypass web filters; while selling access to his friends and hundreds of accounts
on the web, he was suspended from touching computers, but later sold the company on eBay. Alex also founded:
Fantastic Scripts - a
website login and subscription solution,
QuickInsert - the widgetized version of Fantastic Scripts,
and
CodeRAM Design Studio - a website development firm founded in Texas
with over 15 clients.
Alex acts as official team chef, loves windsurfing, and cycles actively.
In 2007, he biked over 4,000 miles from Austin, Texas to Anchorage,
Alaska with the
Texas 4000 team on the world's
longest fund-raising ride for cancer research.