onchain-story

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.