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First of all, as of 2025, the "we" is a "me". So throughout this site, "we" (or "us") mostly means "me".
Except on the history page, of course.
I’ve been in the tech-startup world since early 1999, and in tech in general a tad longer, since 1996. Most, if not all, of that time was spent building software - starting with some pre-Internet-era embedded software in the mid-90s, riding the dot-com riot in San Francisco for about 6 years starting 1999, and then for almost 2 decades in Manhattan, which is where I have been living and working since 2006.
Over the last 15 years or so, I have been in founding CTO roles at a couple of fintech startups in NYC, most recently at Yieldstreet, the leading platform for alternative private market investments. Just prior to this, I did a similar rodeo at another NYC-based fintech - LearnVest - from 2009 to 2015. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 for over 350M, one of the biggest fintech exits at the time.
TL;DR: I love building stuff. Early-stage startups, building and scaling both systems and teams from scratch, is what I really love to do. I’ve been doing it for over two decades now, in operational roles as CTO, technical architect, engineering manager, and software engineer.
Now, aside from my own continuing tech explorations, I provide advisory services to both early-stage startups on their tech challenges: foundational architecture and vision, org design, engineering culture, team building, pretty much anything can help with from my ~20 years of startup battlescars as a tech leader. I also work with early-stage and seed funds, both as an LP and as an advisor to their portcos, informally or formally.
Most of this is done through my company Gordian Labs, an outfit that originally began life almost two decades ago as a boutique software consultancy.