Projects

Projects I’m involved with and areas of interest:

• Building Prime Intellect: Commoditizing compute and ai models to advance scientific progress and to ensure accessibility of aligned ai. Join us.

• Co-initiated and supporting VitaDAO, a collective funding and incubating longevity research (started the Longevity Prize and Fellowship within it).

• Supporting Molecule and bio.xyz, a platform to fund science, and an accelerator for internat native scientific communities that fund and advance scientific research, including womens health, psychedelics, syn bio, cryo)

Past

• Helped create a pop up city called Zuzalu, to welcome individuals from various communities, including Ethereum, AI, longevity research, decentralized science, public goods, and other related fields. (Why I Built Zuzalu by Vitalik Buterin). It created an offspring of awesome popup cities.

• Helped fundraise ~$3m in donations for longevity research, climate efforts and open and decentralized science through quadratic donations with gitcoin, vitadao and others, 2021.

• Participated in Longevity Biotech Fellowship Program, 2021

• Cofounded dex.blue, decentralized ethereum exchange, 2018-2020

• Worked on an idea for a health insurance startup, 2018

• Wrote and built existentialrisk.info, 2018

• Studied software engineering / machine learning, product, design and science and tech studies at CODE University for ~ 2 years (2017-2018), building full stack web apps, robots from scratch with ROS, ml sales forecasting for big supermarket and large stock data analysis pipelines. Other highlights included having the Meta AI team teach us for a week on AI and LLMs in 2018. Dropped out to pursue startups.

• Researched key technologies of the future, landed on ai, bio/longevity, fusion and nanotech. (translated doc, original german doc/presentation), 2014

• In my teens, I built a bunch of websites, interned at startups, and taught myself design, web development and investing.