startupradar

I need to reintroduce myself.

I’m about to publicly launch a new company called 
@MezzanineLabs but most people only know a tiny, tiny part of my career... and usually it’s that I started ConstitutionDAO or that I was on the team that acquired Grindr

I studied econ and cs in college. As a sophomore, I started NomadX, an apartment rental company for digital nomads. We expanded across several countries and aggregated tens of thousands of units. Our goal was to create a global network of "host cities" where nomads could live for 1–3 months at a time. (Dare I say, an early network state?)

One of my first customers in Lisbon introduced me to bitcoin in 2017. That fall, bitcoin hit $20k for the first time and the term “DeFi” hadn’t been coined yet. I tried arbitraging Litecoin and Bitcoin on a Zimbabwean exchange called Golix, where prices had 50%+ premiums. That’s where I learned about market depth and how hard it is to make money in illiquid markets.

@novak is among the sharpest and most thoughtful builders that I’ve met in this space. Didn’t want his recent casts to fly under the “radar” and we should all be closely following Mezzanine Labs.

CC: @jeff-xyz this would be a fun podcast.

Building Mezzanine, started ConstitutionDAO

@quicknode GTM | building /startupradar                                  rants and travel photos are my own

@novak is among the sharpest and most thoughtful builders that I’ve met in this space. Didn’t want his recent casts to fly under the “radar” and we should all be closely following Mezzanine Labs.

CC: @jeff-xyz this would be a fun podcast.

https://farcaster.xyz/novak/0xa3cb79dd

Crypto Attorney, Web2 Founder, Farcaster Maxi. Moderator for /law-policy