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.

INTERESTS →

Existentialism

• How do we create meaning in an apparently meaningless universe?

• What does it mean that humans are "condemned to be free"?

• What does it mean to live authentically?

  
  

The invisible forces that influences human behavior

• The unconscious mind and repressed experiences — Psychology

• Economic incentives and constraints — Game Theory

• Social competition — Mimetic Theory

  
  

Food

• How geography and culture shapes it — Culinary History

• What makes a great one — Culinary Arts

• How to get people to pay for it — the art of fleecing a "foodie"

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