I'm an entrepreneur, distributed systems engineer, and investor.
NOW →
Founder of Argus Labs — we are making Sword Art Online a reality.
Writing angel checks in consumer & frontier tech incl. crypto, AI, and games.
Existing in San Francisco, CA.
PREV →
Grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Withdrew from college (before my first day) to work at a crypto exchange in Asia; did blockchain engineering, market making, etc.
Eventually, studied EECS at UC Berkeley and graduated early because I can't stand school.
Worked on Dark Forest — the world's first fully onchain MMORTS game built using zero-knowledge cryptography.
Retired competitive parliamentary debater.
INVESTMENTS →
[CRYPTO] EigenLayer — Ethereum restaking protocol
[CRYPTO] Monad — Parallelized EVM-compatible L1
[CRYPTO] Succinct — Verifiable computation via zkVM
[CRYPTO] Conduit — Rollup-as-a-service
[CRYPTO] Commonware — Blockchain SDK
[CRYPTO] Veridise — Blockchain security + formal verification research
[CRYPTO] Movement — MoveVM L2
[GAMING] Pahdo Labs — MMO ARPG game studio
… and others
Tempus Edax Rerum.