Designer, Founder, Investor in London
Mediocre golf player and car racer. I get along with people who have taste.
Taught myself design and code (a little). 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 (mostly with funding and connecting good friends from the industry). Also collect Porsches.
Design Consultant, Advisor, Investor at Slava Kim LLC
London, UK
Helping early-stage technology companies with exceptional user experience: 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
Scaled design department, establishing dedicated Product and Content Design teams. Led a design-driven overhaul of core products and introduced the Orion Design System — a cross-platform React component library that sped up shipping across surfaces. Embedded design in decision-making, standing up workflows that improved quality and impact while keeping customer needs front and center.
Co-founder, Head of Design at Zora
San Francisco, CA
Side project turned company. Led design end-to-end — brand, product — then built and managed the design team. Today, Zora is an on-chain social network where every post (and profile) is a coin; creators earn on trades.
Designer at Coinbase
San Francisco, CA
Joined as the second designer.
Coinbase is an American publicly traded company, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. Led design for Consumer (web + mobile) and Pro (mobile), founding team member for Commerce and Card.
I learned how to read—seriously. I listen to the audiobook as I read a physical copy.
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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