🔧 Founder, ✒ Writer, 🤑 Investor, 🐮 Cowfund Lead

🐦 @divine_economy

👋 Quick Pitch

I'm the cofounder of two DAOs, as well as two companies that work to incubate and support talent while growing their businesses. I see angel investing as an extension of that work. We're moving towards a world in which creators don't work for platforms, but platforms work for creators—and likewise, we're moving towards a world where founders don't work for investors, but investors work for founders. As an investor, I'm here to work.

👨‍🎓 Background

• Cocreator of joker labs ~ A web3 incentivized governance protocol to reward consensus and relationship-building across governance, endorsements, and games (including the jokerace).

• Cocreator of ecodao ~ Web3 gallery working to develop an tokenized museum online and push possibilities of NFTs to unlock work and events, with proceeds from drops going to support artists and the environment

• Cofounder of Felix

  ~ Weekly autopay and invoicing for freelancers in <5 taps "A sleek mobile interface that auto generates an invoice based on time, date, hourly rate, and expenses" — Fast Company

• Cofounder of Forum

  ~ The highest-paying tutoring firm in the US: developed technology to automate all overhead and pay educators better while giving them tools to build a decentralized, proto-DAO community for supporting each other, with EdTech apps and diagnostics used by agencies across the globe

• Writer of Three Quarks

  ~ Deep dives into the implications of web3: sample pieces include “Against Scarcity,” “The Currency of Community,” “You Are What You Own (on Ceramic),” “The Internet as Religion,” “Collectivizing Finance,” and "User-Generated Finance”

• Past lives: ****educator, translator, film critic, literature major

🤝 Ways I Might Help

• Narrative: Developing clear narratives to express a project’s position and potential in the market, as well as writing long-form articles and memos to articulate why companies matter and will succeed
• Advisory: Leveraging my background—building businesses, advising startups, growing freelance marketplaces, and developing SaaS products—to chart potential business paths and advise on user journeys and flows
• Domain Expertise: Consulting on specialized fields of knowledge, particularly freelance creator markets
• Connections: Sharing my network of founders and investors to support projects however possible

📝 Theses

• Web3 shifts us back to a decentralized p2p economy that was the foundation of the internet in the 90s, but this time with tools for monetization and social engagement that have been the domain of major corporations in web 2.0.
• The major aggregators are no longer giant corporations but creators and fans, and the act of aggregation blurs the lines between the two.