I’m a freedom maximalist, a bureaucracy minimalist and a rational optimist.
I advanced the freedom to organize through Aragon, which I cofounded in 2016. Aragon took DAOs from $0 to $20bn in assets under management, powering some of Ethereum’s heavyweights, like Lido and Curve. (For goosebumps, watch this.)
I am now advancing the freedom of movement with CitizenX, which I cofounded in 2023. CitizenX allows you to find and fund places that welcome you as a citizen.
I am an angel investor in freedom-enabling technologies that will define this century’s progress: crypto (sovereign money), longevity (sovereign health) and network states (sovereign citizenship).
I have invested in 20+ startups like Dune, Molecule or Spellbook. I have coinvested alongside other angels like Balaji Srinivasan, Ryan Hoover, Alexis Ohanian, Ashton Kutcher and VCs like a16z, USV and Placeholder.
I started my career making open source software at age 12. I first started a Linux distribution called Asturix, building a new desktop environment from scratch and cool features like facelogin (way before Android and iOS had it!).
I have also advised projects like Decentraland, and institutions like the European Commission (which didn’t work out very well).
I didn’t go to college and I attribute much of the West’s cultural decline to our Industrial Age education systems and boomers.
My utopian dream is simple: a society where creativity is praised, private property is respected, bullshit jobs don’t exist and parents actually get to spend time with their kids.
Some beliefs I hold strongly:
- Unconditional love is the most humane thing that exists. Morality and creativity are only second to it. Knowing what’s truly humane will help us navigate a period of confusion as AI keeps exponentially improving.
- Humans, as the leading species, are morally responsible for safeguarding Earth and its creatures.
- Becoming multi-planetary should be the #1 goal of our times.
- The second one should be to build new networks (powered by crypto) to build new alternatives in case Western civilization collapses.
- Teenagers are people too. They can think, they can create, they can build. They have the most energy, and the most neurons. Confining them to buildings that resemble prisons is a crime against humanity.
- If you are a teenager/young person, you should earn your freedom as soon as you can.
- Most of the money, news, and regulations are fake. Boomers have created a fake world, which looks very proper from the outside, but it’s all fugazzi. You want your president to look like this, not like this.
- Western boomers have been the worst generation in the current generational cycle. They have failed their children and are collapsing a great civilization.
- We don’t know why we (and the universe) exist. Apart from procreation, there’s no universal answer to what to do with life. That’s why happiness is subjective and to be achieved individually.
- Central planning is evil as a group imposes their formula to happiness to the rest.
- Individual liberties and capitalism are our best bets to happiness and prosperity.
- Communists are failed capitalists.
- Humans are incredible, Earth is a wonderful gift, and we are undermining both. Seeing human beings imprisoned in bullshit jobs and bureaucracy is such a lack of respect for our own species.
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