Worn hats as a founder, engineer, operator, and investor, I have delivered results:
Founding / Operating
- Built teams, made visions reality around consumer products that have > 3M active users, developers
- Designed and developed programs such as grants, accelerators, and incubators that have scaled from 0 to 2000+ applications from over 100 countries, 80+ NPS, over $100M in follow-on funding
- Built a successful revenue-generating, consumer identity protocol with: 10 LTV / CAC and 60% QoQ growth
- Closed deals that have created > $50M in value to my orgs
- First hire/led regional go-to-market and closed numerous in-region partnerships
- Experienced operator and leader - driven 0-1 and lead > 30 person teams
- Experienced across product, go-to-market, developer relations, commercial strategy at both early-stage and publicly traded companies
- Not insignificant press mentions
- Bootstrapped to 30% MoM growth as a founder
- Writing an open-source book on how not to run a company
Engineering
- R&D / engineering: developed solutions to complex chip-level problems at Texas Instruments. IP & tools developed continue to be in use
- Built and grew product and engineering functions 0->1 to see complex visions through
Academic
- Teaching: a course on crypto at Miami University, Paris Dauphine University
- Published academic: reputed journal publications and citations
- Journal reviewer: invited reviewer for ACM
Investing
- Advised, shared dealflow funds (> $100M AUM)
- Over 20 startups mentored at accelerators such as Wharton, Brinc, Plug and Play, etc.
I sometimes read and write. I feel most empowered helping people create access to information, wealth, growth.