Founded a consumer app called Blind then a crypto native Venture fund, Hashed in early 2017. I left in 2019 to pursue solo-preneurship.

I spend most of my time operating out of Korea/Japan, investing & advising in and around internet native primitives.

Shinlabs

Current

Shinlabs is a venture collaborator. Initially aimed at a venture studio model in Asia, but felt there weren't enough shots on goal.

Today, we work closely with founders and occasionally do investments. Our team has served as founders, early employees and advisors to some of the most consequential firms in our category.


The promise of crypto is incentive and there’s only two ways “money” enters a poor country — remittance and aid. Sound like crypto.

The western world clearly sees crypto as an asset class yet the ethos of blockchains (data sovereignty, sound money etc.) often gets lost in translation by the time it reaches Asia — as the notion of contributing to open source is still unfamiliar. Thus, price action becomes the product and marketcap is marketing.

The western bias is interesting too. We often look at India as a DAU farm and SE Asia as low LTV, but perhaps that’s more a skeuomorphic bias trying to make sense of crypto from mobile metrics.

To-date, crypto doesn’t have DAU, MAU, LTV, or ROAS etc. Just buyers who are believers — and consumers, who are collectors.

If you are interested in exploring this frontier together, Please get in touch.