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  "name": "Oscar Marchand",
  "tag": "Founders associate at Nao Labs (YC). On a gap year. Writing, building, learning...",
  "domain": "oscomarch.com",
  "email": "oscomarch@gmail.com"
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      "role": "Founders Associate",
      "where": "Nao Labs (YC X25)",
      "when": "2025 — now",
      "desc": "First non-engineering hire. Working across growth, content, and operations at a YC-backed AI startup."
    },
    {
      "role": "Co-founder",
      "where": "Harvard iLabs",
      "when": "2024",
      "desc": "Built and incubated an HR tech startup at Harvard's innovation lab. Went from zero to first users."
    },
    {
      "role": "Copywriter",
      "where": "Freelance",
      "when": "2020 — now",
      "desc": "Started writing copy at 16 for clients across e-commerce, SaaS, and consumer brands."
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    {
      "name": "ESCP Business School",
      "when": "2023 — 2025",
      "desc": "Grande École program. On leave."
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    {
      "name": "Columbia University",
      "when": "2024",
      "desc": "Exchange semester. New York."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Sorbonne",
      "when": "2022 — 2023",
      "desc": "Undergraduate studies."
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        "Founders Associate at Nao Labs — growth, content, operations.",
        "A long essay on what taste actually is, and why most people writing about it are wrong.",
        "Trying to ship one open-source thing per month."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Learning",
      "items": [
        "Reading every Sequoia memo I can find from 1995 onward.",
        "Brushing up on Rust for a side project I cannot quite let go of.",
        "How to do investor diligence properly, from the outside."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Reading",
      "items": [
        "Zero to One, again. It is better the second time.",
        "Letters of E. B. White. Probably the best prose I have read this year."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Not doing",
      "items": [
        "Going back to school this fall. The gap year is becoming a gap two years.",
        "Twitter, mostly. I quit in March and have not missed it."
      ]
    }
  ]
};

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    "href": "mailto:oscomarch@gmail.com"
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    "href": "https://github.com/oscomarch"
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