I left two corporate careers to find purpose in Silicon Valley. Instead, I found it solving the wrong things
Fortune 37
A tech founder who left law, consulting, and a venture-backed convenience startup after seeing stark homelessness in San Francisco pivoted to building AI tools for social-services workers. In fiscal year 2025, the USDA reported a 10.62 percent national payment error rate tied to improper payments for SNAP. The pivot shifted effort away from optimizing convenience and toward reducing administrative burden, with agencies in a dozen U.S. states cutting it by half.