I'm an academic at heart.

I hold a PhD from INSEAD, where I currently serve as a Visiting Scholar (faculty). Previously, I was a tenure-track professor at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business, and was later named one of Poets & Quants' Top 50 Business School Professors for my research and teaching (interview).

Across everything I do, I keep returning to one question: how do shared meaning, organization, and value get made when no one is in charge? It's the thread that ties it together: how new markets are born, how communities coordinate without central authority, and what happens to creativity and expertise once AI enters the picture.

But I don't just study ideas; I build and translate them. I co-founded SQRT, a wealth management platform for crypto investors; led fashionxDAO, a collective incubating fashion brands through tokenized membership; and served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) in Seattle. I continue to advise startups for fun.

I've also spent the last several years bringing this work into the world through 100+ talks across academia, industry, and global conferences, and online course series on Web3 and AI for broader audiences.

These ideas come together in my books: Beyond AI: The Human Strategy (2025); the national bestseller NFT Revolution (2021, 100K+ copies, translated into Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese); and Time I Couldn't Miss (2008), written during my time at Harvard.