Joining Paradigm

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Paradigm as an Investment and Research Partner to help Matt, Alana, and the rest of the team build the best crypto-native investment firm.

Paradigm has been an important part of my life for the past several years. Paradigm was the lead investor in the first company I worked at (Osmosis), introduced me to many close friends through the first Paradigm Fellowship, and has inspired me in ways the team probably still doesn’t fully realize. When I decided I wanted to leave Osmosis to focus on the intersection of research, building, and investing, there was no other place I would have rather gone.

I spend a lot of my time thinking about protocol design, with a recent focus on protocols that take strong tradeoffs to improve on a core product or maximize performance. My work at Osmosis consisted in large part of pushing this technical frontier, with the core focus of weaving many different parts of the stack into consensus logic in service of user needs. I believe that the boundaries of this tradeoff space are going to become increasingly important for the future of crypto, and I’d love to meet anyone working on pushing them. For example, what can you unlock if you take weak subjectivity to the limit?

On the investment side, I like to partner with founders who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them.

If you’re a builder or researcher, please reach out! Whether you want to jam on {protocol, market, mechanism} design or talk about a project you're working on, my DMs and inbox (alpin@paradigm.xyz) are always open.