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 Polkadot. 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 to live in a new country that doesn’t exist today — 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 move on from the collapse of Western civilization.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 plain evil as a group imposes to the rest their formula to happiness.Individual liberties and capitalism are our best bets to happiness and prosperity. They are well proven.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.If something resonated here, drop me a line at first letter of my name @ this domain.