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.