I live in Berkeley, CA, and have recently found myself trying to optimize connections within startup ecosystems. I'm currently president of Entrepreneurs@Berkeley.

Besides that, I've been deep in prediction markets: previously building a platform for hyperlocal prediction markets, separately building a system for placing parlays on prediction markets, and now looking at how the insurance industry can be revolutionized by their introduction. I think the introduction of this new fundamental-layer asset class has been significantly underplayed, and that there's a lot more potential still to change how the world functions, especially in a post-growth, post-AGI economy.

I grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, and I'm currently studying physics at Berkeley.

Email: shivamkumar@berkeley.edu.