Web3

I run Yomi Games, a web3 game studio. We’ve done a lot, and 2024 is going to be a wild year with our next game, Snowcrest Peak.

Before that, I was a Blockchain Solutions Architect at Consensys. Consensys was founded by Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum. MetaMask was made at Consensys, the first ever wallet for decentralized applications.

Trilogy

I was an early stage C-level executive at Trilogy Education Services. We attained Product Market Fit and were acquired for $750M in mid 2019. Trilogy was the fastest growing education company of all time, and raised over $80m in VC funding.

Angel Investing

Since 2019, I’ve invested $1M of my own money into startups.

Activism

I was a volunteer lobbyist for the 2019 Calfironia Fur Ban Law (AB-44). My team educated Senators and rallied the community. We were up against lobbyists from private companies who make tens of millions in revenue a year from selling fur.

The law passed in 2019, sale of fur and fur farming are both banned in California.

Fur farms electrocute animals (mink, foxes, etc), put them in gas chambers and then skin them, sometimes alive. Wild animals that were meant to be free, live in cages their entire lives and are driven to madness. These poor animals chew off their own body parts.

Fur in america sometimes contain dog and cat fur imported from overseas. There’s no way to stop this unless you ban the sale and manufacturing of it altogether.

Teaching

Teaching gives me purpose.

  • June 2017 to Dec ‘19 - UC Berkeley Ext (Data Analytics and Web Dev) - San Francisco, CA
  • Mar 2018 - Apr ‘18 - Northwestern School of Professional Studies (Web Dev) - Evanston, IL
  • Oct 2015 - May ‘17 - Rutgers Continuing Studies (Web Dev) - Piscataway, Jersey City, Somerset, NJ
  • May 2015 - Aug ‘15 - General Assembly (Web Dev) - NY, NY
  • Jan 2015 - Dec ‘15 - Barnard College - Athena Center For Leadership (Front End Dev) - NY, NY

Speaking

Seminars + Panels I’ve done

Animoca Powered EdTech Accelerator (remote) - Scaling Instructor Quality - 2023

  • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/newcampus-launches-10m-accelerator-animoca-open-campus-will-fan-/

Santa Rosa Junior College (remote) - 2022 - intro to crypto gaming

Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (remote) - 2021 - Product Market Fit

  • https://youtu.be/PPjmspFYYZo?t=231
  • https://youtu.be/58u5dlRB6Ss?t=257

State of Edtech Investor Panel (remote) - 2020 - edtech

Columbia Executive MBA program (New York, NY) - 2019 - decentralized finance

Disruptive Technologies Legal Summit 2019 (Santa Clara, CA) - Digital Currency’s Impact

  • Other panelists included: Chief Compliance Officer @ Circle, Partners @ Winston & Strawn LLP

Bitcoin 2019 (San Francisco, CA) - Constructing a Bitcoin Transaction Using Python

  • Other speakers included: Edward Snowden (remoted in), Tim Draper

DeveloperWeek 2019 Hackathon (San Francisco, CA)

  • http://www.developerweek.com/hackathon/

Developer Week 2019 (Oakland, CA) - Communicating With a Smart Contract Via RPC

  • https://sched.co/IR51
  • Spoke along with CTOs and Co-Founders of Slack, Eventbrite, DoorDash, Stack Overflow and Cisco

Blockworld 2018 (San Jose, CA) - Intro to DApp Creation Workshop

  • https://sched.co/EnjU
  • Spoke along with Academics from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford

FINTECH SILICON VALLEY (SF, CA) - Walking through an ERC20 Contract - 2018

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sTD-gy5gzM

FINTECH SILICON VALLEY (Palo Alto, CA) - Intro to Ethereum Development - 2018

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF3l5hRyaus&t=112s