Journey - JZ

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I now spend 90% of my time running my new startup Mana and 10% of my time investing in Fintech, Blockchain, and Gaming. I am also a mentor and entrepreneur in residence at Babson College’s GEIR program. I enjoy long hikes, backpacking trips, listening to jazz music, and landscape photography. read more

🐌 Started my first company while I was still in high school

Ran the largest gaming community forum for an online Video Game (FreeStyle)

Published by joycity

Built on opensource stack /hit 2.1mm peak monthly PV

🌻 Co-founded BU trading club

while I was obtaining my B.S.B.A at Boston University: Questrom School of Business

the founding president who developed the course work and hired first e-board

grew it from a club with less than a dozen members to 2nd largest club (>300 members) in category

😢 got voted out by my own team

🌼 Built the first Bitcoin Trading Platform in the US

quit my internship at an FX shop

launched Alt-Options in late 2015 (read more | article 1 | article 2)

“Acquihire” in early 2016

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🕹️ Co-founded FirstBlood

co-founded FB.io - the first gaming project on blockchain

raised 460,000+ Ether under 1 minute (read more | #57 largest crowdfunded project in the world)

serving over 300,000 users globally

supporting Halo, PUBG, Dota2, Vanguard, FreeFire, Warzone, and more

partnered with brands like Samsung, Lenovo, HP, Polygon, NEAR, MakerDAO

started the original eSports gaming token/protocol (Dawn)

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🌲 Founded stealth fintech startup Mana

Fintech startup focused on building products for rewarding gamers

Raise 7 million dollar seed round (Read more)

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