Designer, Founder, Investor in London
Mediocre racing driver and Porsche enthusiast. I get along with people who have taste.
Taught myself design and code. Got a job on the other side of the world. Moved. Spent three years witnessing one of the craziest periods of hypergrowth in tech. Then Covid hit. Co-founded a company, it was a lot of fun. Moved again — to London. Now I help early-stage companies with funding and connect them with good friends from the industry. Obsessed with flat-six cars and driving them on a 20.832 km track in Germany.
Design Consultant, Advisor, Investor at Slava Kim LLC
London, UK
I work with early-stage companies I like. Usually on product, design, funding, or making useful introductions. Tenstorrent, Mecha Corporation, Scene Infrastructure, Dot Product, Jour (acq’d by Alan), Sonar (acq’d by Aave), Primer, Once Upon, FAL, Parcha, Cheq, Probably Nothing Labs, Chain Patrol, Athena.
Director of Design at MoonPay
London, UK
Joined for a year to help rebuild design. Grew the team across Product and Content Design, redesigned core parts of the product, and built Orion — the design system used across MoonPay.
Co-founder, Head of Design at Zora
San Francisco, CA
Started as a side project with friends. Turned into a company. Designed basically everything at first — brand, product, marketing — then built a team to do it properly.
Designer at Coinbase
San Francisco, CA
Joined as the second designer.
Worked on Consumer across web and mobile, Pro on mobile, and was part of the founding teams for Commerce and Card. Things got big pretty quickly.
I did read before 2025, just didn't keep receipts. I read to have better arguments. Occasionally I learn something too.
Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
Get Together by Bailey Richardson
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Status Game by Will Storr
The Origins of Efficiency by Brian Potter
Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
The Russian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 by Jordan Mechner
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
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