Braden W.Co Founder

United States - New York City Metropolitan Area

In 2026 We raised $3.2M to scale. This was the journey >>
In 2020 I was dead set on going to Stanford and becoming a doctor. Triple sport varsity athlete and student body president. (What I thought was a perfect college app)
(Rejected from Stanford and Penn - Chose Michigan - Best Decision of my life)
In 2021 I was working as a Prison and Psychiatric Transport EMT while working on Dynamic Purchasing Solutions (Company #1 W/ Cooper - Grew to 42 schools and over 1000 Transactions but shut down because margins were paper thin.) 

In 2022 I was working on the UMICH Bladder Cancer Database Project while building what I called DormDoctor AI on the side. (Never got off the ground but I think It was ChatGPT for doctors before OpenEvidence)
In 2023 I was researching RNA Cell Bio in Tel Aviv and closing down WeiDev Blockchain ( Company #2 W/ Cooper - Grew to 70k Revenue shut down with the fall of Bored Apes and everything else.)
In 2024 I was studying for the MCAT while in 20k of credit card debt paying a dev team in India to build the second iteration of Nerd Apply on a dream. 
(Don't worry we are fully in house now)

In 2025 I turned down Medial School @ UMIAMI Miller to continue building Nerd Apply. (Company #3 w/ Cooper - 250K Pre-Seed In July, 25)
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What I learned? Go all in. Splitting my brain between medicine and entrepreneurship kept my options open and felt safe. Tearing away the safety net changed my life.
This is my story. We are building Nerd Apply to make sure all students see that there is no perfect story except their own.
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