Steven Puri

Co-Founder, Centered

Steven's first jobs were as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he fell ass-backward into film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies, eventually selling his CGI company to the German media conglomerate Das Werk. Steven then produced some indie films with friends and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP at Fox and an EVP at Kurtzman-Orci at DreamWorks. Steven recently got back into building tech companies and is the Co-Founder of Centered, a Flow State app that provides focus music, distraction blocking and AI-powered coaches to get you into the Zone...and help you knock your work out.