Entrepreneur, investor, and occasional advisor — I mostly spend time with founders building on the fringes. My crypto journey started in 2017 as co-founder/partner @ Hashed. In late 2019, I left to pursue solo-preneurship.

More recently I’ve enjoyed operating across APAC (mostly Korea/Japan).

Pre-crypto, I launched the largest pseudonymous social, Blind.

Shinlabs

Current

A more recent endeavor, we're a collective of crypto builders and investors venturing across the frontier of new internet primitives. We've invested in well over 50 teams collectively and have served as founders, early employees and advisors to some of the most consequential firms in our category.


The promise of crypto is incentive.

There are only two ways money enters a poor country — remittance and aid — sounds very crypto to me.

Financially literate regions like the EU, US often see crypto as an asset class and the ethos of blockchains (data sovereignty, sound money etc.) gets lost in translation as they reach the East. The notion of contributing to open source is still largely an unfamiliar concept here.

Betting against the Western bias is also interesting.

We look at India like a DAU farm and SE Asia as low LTV, but maybe we’re looking at crypto through this skeuomorphic bias from mobile. Maybe crypto doesn’t have DAU or MAU. Just buyers who are believers and consumers, who are now collectors.