Bio


I've had exactly one job in my life: a month hauling 30-pound bags of office equipment through a 100°F summer for my father's courier business. I bought my first MacBook with the money and never worked for anyone again.

Today I'm co-founder & CEO of Noodle Tomato — frontier-quality AI video at the open-source price. Enter a topic; an agent does the research, script, voiceover, footage, editing, and QC, and hands you a finished YouTube video that earns.

Before that I founded Glambase, a platform for creating and monetizing AI influencers, and bootstrapped it to 1,000,000 users.

The playbook has been the same since I was a teenager — show up early, build the picks and shovels:
  • Started mining Bitcoin in 2011 on FPGA boards, after reading about it in a hacker magazine.
  • Built my first product at university — a crypto trading bot — and scaled licenses from $100 to $10,000.
  • Co-founded MarginCall, one of the fastest crypto exchanges of its generation. Acquired.
  • Founded CoinOffering, the first company to issue shares on the Ethereum blockchain — open-sourced, still in use today.
  • Led strategy for token launches that raised tens of millions.

My longtime partner Alexander Salnikov went on to co-found Rarible; several of our early hires are now millionaires. The US granted me an EB1 green card for extraordinary ability.

Off duty: tennis, golf, bouldering, and racing cars. Always up for a match.

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