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.

Across everything I do, I keep returning to one question: how do shared meaning, organization, and value get made—and remade—when no one is in charge? It's the thread that ties my research projects 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 them. I co-founded SQRT, a crypto wealth management platform for retail investors; led fashionxDAO, a collective incubating fashion brands through tokenized membership; and served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Madrona Venture Labs. I continue to advise startups across sectors.

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

I’ve shared my work through 100+ talks across academia, industry, and global conferences, as well as online courses on Web3 and AI.