About

Sean lives and works in Portola Valley, California, where he is currently building Internode. In his free time he can’t resist developing products of his own, and continuing his love of art, music, travel, and time with family and friends. You can read more about his travels, or his creations here.

His first entrepreneurial project was FamilyOven.com. Built in 2007, it was the first social-networking website for recipes: using advanced search techniques, it let users pick a few items from their fridge and get back the best recipes for them. FamilyOven grew to over half a million users in its first six months, and four years later he sold it to GroupRecipes.

In 2008, with the advent of the iPhone, Sean entered the mobile industry. He co-founded PointAbout, Inc., a mobile consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., specializing in iPhone and Android development. PointAbout became a major mobile brand on the east coast, building products for industry leaders including Disney, Newsweek, and the United States Army. He sold PointAbout in early 2011.

Sean built AppMakr, launched in 2010, which disrupted the mobile app market as the first fully automated, no-code-required platform for creating fully native applications. AppMakr was responsible for over 1% of all apps in the App Store between 2010 and 2012, and was used by Newsweek, PBS, National Geographic, the PGA Tour, Harvard Business Review, and offices of the U.S. Congress and Senate.

To solve the engagement problems plaguing app publishers at the time, Sean launched Socialize as a spin-out of AppMakr. The social SDK shipped in hundreds of iOS and Android apps and reached over 200M users worldwide. Socialize was acquired by ShareThis in March 2013, where Sean helped create new products and teams for its consumer and publisher divisions.

In 2019 he built Konch, an AI transcription platform used by institutions including Princeton, UNC, and the London School of Economics to process more than a million minutes of audio and video. He sold it in 2023.

Alongside that, from 2019 to 2025, Sean served as Chief Information Officer at IQT, rebuilding and modernizing technology across a global enterprise operating under unusual security constraints.

He now builds Internode, a graph-based organizational memory system that turns a company’s scattered email, transcripts, and files into a connected map of decisions, ideas, tasks, people, and companies — the context AI agents need to reason across an organization instead of one document at a time.

He still writes code every day and ships in public. He and a friend recently ran a three-day livestreamed build challenge, ideating, building, and deploying one complete product per day. All three shipped: Skillbase, a sandbox for testing and benchmarking AI skills; Klear, a Gmail extension that gives founders a lightweight CRM; and Penopta.

Sean often shares his expertise through interviews, panels, and lectures on the future of technology. He has appeared as a guest expert on Bloomberg TV and ABC News, and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, TechCrunch, Fast Company, and Entrepreneur Magazine.

He has also created a children’s book called Erec Makes a Fire to help teach the entrepreneurial spirit to children. You can read more about Erec Makes a Fire.

You can also find Sean on X (Twitter), Github, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn.