V2VIN VOMERO

Curiosity compounds.

I run experiments.
Some become companies.

Twenty years of hypotheses tested on markets, muscles, mushrooms, and the occasional ocean wall. Founder and CEO of FoxyAI. Biologist by training, builder by habit.

Currently running 7 open experiments

FoxyAI

year eight

Teaching software to see what a photo already says about a home. Started with my own money after a bad appraisal on my own property. Three straight HousingWire Tech100 wins and counting.

status: compounding

Hericea

pre-launch

Mushroom-led brain health. Every ingredient at its clinical dose.

status: founding batch

Echoes of the Moon

a coding experiment

A lunar colony sim I taught myself to build. I am not a programmer, which was the whole point. A learning project, not a finished game. Hex grids, oxygen budgets, and a signal that is not random.

status: still learning

The one-mile swim

next up

The half mile was the pilot study.

status: training

Triathlon

queued

Three sports, one hypothesis: I will finish.

status: queued

Start and sell another business

open

Done it once. The hypothesis is that it was a repeatable result.

status: watching for it

Furniture from a tree I milled

open

From log to lumber to something worth keeping.

status: drying

A selected log, 2004 to now.

Companies, dives, buildings, and bulking protocols share one notebook, because they came out of one method: form the hypothesis, run it against reality, keep what survives.

  1. 2004

    The wall dive

    Hypothesis
    The sea floor is not the bottom.
    Method
    Turks and Caicos. Follow the shelf at 60 feet to the edge, then drop the wall to 100. Below that it keeps going for thousands.
    Result
    Confirmed. Something large came up out of the deep to look at us. Still think about it weekly.
  2. 2005

    The backcountry run, Vail

    Hypothesis
    The sign is negotiable.
    Method
    Take the lift up, then hike the ridge higher, past the skull and crossbones that says you are leaving the park and can die. Strap in. Hop a three foot cliff.
    Result
    Confirmed. A bowl full of untouched powder and no oxygen to spare.
  3. 2009

    Hodara Property Management

    Hypothesis
    Three college kids can run a real estate agency.
    Method
    $11,000 in savings, an office in Allston, and a rule that every managed property gets visited weekly.
    Result
    Confirmed. First student-run agency in the country. Businessweek Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25. Sold it in 2013.
  4. 2010

    Making Moves

    Hypothesis
    The recession needs a show about starting anyway.
    Method
    An eight episode web series following our Boston businesses, made to talk other twenty year olds into starting something. One Sam Adams cameo.
    Result
    Confirmed. College TV ran it and production companies called.
  5. 2012

    Tough Mudder, Mt. Snow

    Hypothesis
    My quads will forgive me.
    Method
    Ten miles up and down a mountain with friends in kilts.
    Result
    Rejected. The quads filed a formal complaint. Hardest event I have done.
  6. 2013

    The CrossFit team competition

    Hypothesis
    Marco and I can hang.
    Method
    A team competition. Pistols were involved. Not the shooting kind.
    Result
    Partially confirmed. We won exactly one event: longest combined standing long jump. Taking it.
  7. 2013

    Forza Development

    Hypothesis
    Boston multifamily is the asymmetric bet.
    Method
    Years of gut renovations first, ground-up construction second. Learn the building before you bet the building.
    Result
    Confirmed. Over $40M placed into Boston multifamily by 2018.
  8. 2014

    The IDPA match

    Hypothesis
    Beginner’s luck is a real variable.
    Method
    Harvard Sportsman’s Club, first sanctioned match, with a Ruger SR9c. The wrong choice, for the record.
    Result
    Confirmed. Shot well for a first timer. First timers cannot place, which we will call a technicality.
  9. 2014

    NeWell

    Hypothesis
    A building designed around sleep is worth more than one that is not.
    Method
    Circadian lighting, blackout shades, soundproofing, and air treatment in a Charlestown ground-up, at one to two percent of budget.
    Result
    Confirmed. Healthy homes before it was a category, and the wellness seat at Colivo after.
  10. 2015

    The 204 pound winter

    Hypothesis
    200 pounds of mostly muscle is achievable on a biology degree and a meal timer.
    Method
    Eat every two hours. Every night ends with half a pint of ice cream and spoonfuls of peanut butter.
    Result
    Confirmed. 204 by winter. Protocol retired with full honors and a new wardrobe.
  11. 2015

    Colivo

    Hypothesis
    Healthy homes can scale past one building.
    Method
    Took the NeWell playbook to Colivo, a co-living startup in Boston and Jersey City, as Chief Wellness Officer. 2015 to 2017.
    Result
    Concluded. Co-living was early and so were we. The playbook survived.
  12. 2017

    Diving Black Rock, Maui

    Hypothesis
    A honeymoon can spare one hour underwater.
    Method
    Puu Kekaa off Kaanapali Beach, sea turtles and a wall of reef fish. The wife, generously, was happy to be left alone for an hour.
    Result
    Confirmed. Still married. Still diving.
  13. 2017

    Wild camping, the Catskills

    Hypothesis
    You do not need a campground to camp.
    Method
    Kaaterskill Wild Forest. No site, no reservation, just a pack and a spot that looked right.
    Result
    Confirmed. Slept better on the ground than I do on most mattresses.
  14. 2018

    FoxyAI

    Hypothesis
    The photos know what the appraisal missed.
    Method
    A bad appraisal on my own property, my own money, and neural networks pointed at property photos until they could score condition.
    Result
    Eight years in and still compounding. Some experiments refuse to conclude
  15. 2019

    Wild camping, Harriman State Park

    Hypothesis
    Do it again, farther in.
    Method
    Backcountry at Harriman, two years wiser about what to leave home.
    Result
    Confirmed. Lighter pack, longer hike, same payoff.
  16. 2023

    Polar bear plunge

    Hypothesis
    Cold water, warm ego.
    Result
    Both confirmed.
  17. 2025

    The half-mile swim

    Hypothesis
    I can swim half a mile of open water.
    Result
    Confirmed, June 28. The mile is next. See above.

Experiments I funded

Other people’s hypotheses I wanted to see tested.

  • Relativity Space. Hypothesis: Rockets can be 3D printed.
  • Flowhub. Hypothesis: Cannabis retail deserves real software.
  • Dip Devices. Hypothesis: Better hardware wins.

Giving back

The part of the log that was never about me.

Selected writing

Mostly about teaching machines to look at buildings.