Meet the Founder
I've always had questions about where I come from.
As a Black man, much of my family history is unknown to me. On my father's side, my father is the furthest person I know who carries my last name. Beyond him, there are names, stories, and generations I simply don't know.
That has always made me think about identity, family, and what happens to our stories as time passes.
The idea for bio began during a conversation with my mom. We were sitting in the car when I asked her a simple question: Who is the furthest relative in our family that you can actually remember anything about?
Her answer made something click for me.
We'll only know the lives of the family we live with, and maybe we'll know stories about one or two generations before them. But eventually, I realized that the life I live and who I was while I was here can disappear after a couple of generations, until all that's left is a name on a family tree.
A hundred years from now, there may be members of my family I will never have the opportunity to meet. They might know my name. They might know where I fall on the family tree. But would they know who I was, the values I believed in, what I accomplished, what I struggled with and how I got through it, the losses that I turned into lessons, and the stories I wanted to leave behind?
I didn't want to wait until I was 80 years old to start thinking about my legacy.
I wanted to preserve the life I'm living while I'm actually living it.
That's where bio began.
I created bio to change the way we think about family trees. Genealogy often asks us to look backward and discover the people who came before us. I believe we should also be thinking forward.
We're somebody's ancestors too.
The lives we're living today will one day become our family's history.
bio gives people a place to preserve their lives through photos, videos, and the stories behind those moments, all connected to their family tree. So instead of leaving future generations only a name, a birth date, or a photograph, we can leave them something much more meaningful: the opportunity to know who we were.
I recently graduated from St. Thomas University College of Law, and I built bio while completing my legal education. What began as a personal question about my own family has grown into a vision that I hope can serve families around the world.
I may never get to meet the family members who come after me.
But through bio, my family will know who I was for generations to come.
And I want every family to have that same opportunity.
Because your life matters to the family you'll never get to meet.
Choose how you want to be remembered.