Entrepreneur, investor, and occasional advisor, mostly in crypto.

Got into crypto in 2017 as co-founder and Partner @ Hashed — I left to pursue solo-preneurship.

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

Shinlabs

Current

A more recent endeavor. Shinlabs is a collective of crypto builders and investors venturing across the frontier of new internet primitives. We 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 nations in the EU, US — see crypto as an asset class and the ethos of blockchains (data sovereignty, sound money etc.) gets lost in translation in the East. The notion of contributing to open source is still largely an unfamiliar in APAC.

We conclude India is a DAU farm and SE Asia as low LTV, but maybe there’s a skeuomorphic bias in our industry stemming from the mobile era. Maybe crypto doesn’t have DAU, MAU, LTV, ROAS etc. Just buyers who are believers and consumers, who are now collectors.