Peter is an accomplished LGBTQ entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

This is a story about the life as it happens.

Peter is the founder of Yaza, the world's first app for secure, authenticated videos on maps. 

Peter's audience on social media is greater than 100,000 and he is happy to promote the episode to his fans!

I am a product-focused entrepreneur who has started four companies, all of which were acquired. I closed the first round of funding for my fifth startup, Yaza, in September 2018.

My expertise covers all aspects of designing, building, launching, growing and monetizing great products, designing and scaling organizations to support those products, and making them profitable.

I volunteer my time mentoring startup founders at the European Innovation Academy and StartOut Growth Lab, where as of summer 2019 we've graduated 24 companies that together have closed more than $43M in funding and created more than 170 new jobs.

I studied computer science at Cornell, have a masters degree in CSAI (Computer Science Artificial Intelligence) from Stanford, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Outside of work, I am a passionate world traveler. I've flown more than 4 million miles and visited over 30 countries. My terrestrial adventures have taken me from 150 feet below sea level in Palau to 18,000 feet above in the Nepal Himalaya.

I believe that entrepreneurship provides a path to economic self-empowerment that doesn't require people to "fit in" with the traditional corporate grind. It offers a path to success and fulfillment for dreamers, big thinkers, innovators and creative people who want to have an impact on the world.