About Ari Qayumi

I am a venture capitalist (Mindful VC) and scientist (Stanford Behavior Design Lab).

I am also a daughter, sister, sister in-law, friend, good reader, symbolic systems scientist, and energy, environment, and music therapy lover.

I welcome the opportunity to engage with those passionate about applying Behavior Design to Disruptive Innovations and Sustainable Technologies, Behavior Change (including Therapeutics), Human-Computer Interaction, Venture and Activist Investing, and Global Capital Markets. 

To get on my radar, join the Mindful VC ecosystem or get involved at Stanford.

Notes

1) I prioritize my responses based on who is introducing us, what market has and continues to captivate you, proof of concept design and execution, and how the former aligns with a large-scale thesis I am looking to invest in for the long-term (i.e., typically accessible approaches and solutions with high potential to improve the quality of life for billions without mass negative externalities). 

2) My interests outside of that include symbolic systems (philosophy, psychology, computer science, and linguistics), health, wellness, and fitness, economics, behavioral neuroscience, experimentation, sustainable systems design, value investing, asset bubbles, volatility analysis and trading, programming, history, internet, startups, and alternative investments. 

Topics: minds, machines, methods, models, metrics, mechanisms, music, physics, economics, behavior, health, wellness, fitness, earth and ocean sciences, and energy and the environment. 

I care about creating positive, progressive, and principled environments that help people help themselves (change the way they work, live, and play) and help people be successful as they evolve over time. 

I define successful as being able to improve one's standard of living mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually without increasing negative externalities on a macroeconomic scale. I.e., the metrics that I use to define success here are how much has population health and human performance improved beyond micro-communities.

I am committed to building the largest, legitimate actionable positive behavior change dataset in the world. I aspire to help others practice mindful concept design when creating new technologies and help them facilitate positive behavior change at scale with their societal contributions via mindful venture building.