About Darius Monsef
Darius Monsef is the founder of Pre, an AI-powered accountability platform that helps startup founders execute on their highest-impact work each week. A three-time Y Combinator founder, he previously built Creative Market, a marketplace for independent design assets that Autodesk acquired in 2014, and co-founded Sightbox, acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2017. He went on to found children's healthcare startup Brave Care, leading it from seed through Series B. On Life After Launch with Megan Luttrell & Geo George, he spoke about founders confronting their own self-deception.
The path so far.
- Now
Founder & CEO, Wonder Life Story
- Until 2014 · Scale-up
Co-founder & CEO · Creative Market
- Until 2017 · Startup
Co-founder · Sightbox
Sources: theorg.com
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