Sigil Wen
I'm currently open sourcing the skilled immigration process through extraordinary.club. I opted out of M&T @ UPenn to build in silicon valley on an O-1 Visa. I invest in exceptional technology founders through Spearhead. In pursuit of Great Work while learning how to Work Hard and Focus.
Reading Log (Note: I realized I've been reading wrong. With a completionist mindset. For Validation. Bear with me as I learn how to read)
Past Endeavours
- Launched Airchat with Naval. Built the viral invite loop and AI products. Recruited most of the engineering team. Acquired.
- Built Serendipity PRM (2,000+ MRR in 14 days). Was invited to Stripe, interviewed with Patrick & John Collison where I become the :blistering-intensity: emote in the Stripe Slack among other memes. https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1560675678151852033?s=20. Naval told me Serendipity was not venture scalable, and my talent's were best used elsewhere so I joined Airchat.
- Built and failed to launch Monument. I thought more people could crowdfund their ambitions through crypto. Once I realized it was not viable (Sorry SEC), I pivoted to Serendipity. Backed by Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Founders Inc. and other incredible supporters ❤️
- Built Bitswap in hs, a bridge from decentralized social blockchain to Ethereum - couple million in volume. Feat. New Yorker, New York Magazine, Business Insider, etc. Dharmesh publicly offered me $100k for 1% of bitswap I shut it down after the blockchain died
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Trying to be less distracted with side projects. I primarily code in Swift, Python, Kotlin and Java. Some JS, C & C++
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