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    Roham Gharegozlou

    Roham Gharegozlou

    Founder @axiomzen & CEO @dapper-labs @cryptokitties. Seed investor @intercom, @tout, @zenhub, @routific, @castle-3 and 20+ more, 10 exits. Former VC x2.

    Angel San Francisco Stanford University '...
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    Experience
    Dapper Labs
    Dapper Labs
    Founder, CEO
    CryptoKitties
    CryptoKitties
    Founder, CEO 2017 - Present (almost 9 years)
    Axiom Zen
    Axiom Zen
    Founder, Board Chair 2012 - Present (over 13 years)
    ZenHub
    ZenHub
    Founder, Board Chair 2013 - Present (over 13 years)
    Founder
    Pipp, Axiom Zen, ZenHub, Sesame, TechWadi.org, Launch Labs, CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs
    Employee
    Rising Tide, Newbury Ventures
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Pipp, Entrepreneurial Advisory Network, Reserved, Toby, Hammer & Tusk
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    Alphabet's GV, Samsung, Venrock Buy Into CryptoKitties
    Dapper Labs: the Business of Play on the Blockchain
    CryptoKitties raised another batch of funding. This time, its Samsung, Alphabet-backed GV, and Venrock.
    From CryptoKitties To Cardi B: Warner Music Joins $11 Million Investment In Flow Blockchain
    Announcing our new blockchain: Flow
    Now that Warner Music Group has mastered streaming, generating $2 billion in revenue from the technology, the music giant behind Cardi B, Ed Sheeran and… · More Bruno Mars has set its sights on blockchain, joining an $11.2 million investment in Dapper Labs, best known for making the viral blockchain game, CryptoKitties.
    Mik Naayem
    Dieter Shirley
    With Dieter Shirley, Mik Naayem
    NBA stars lead $12M investment in CryptoKitties makers Dapper Labs
    New round for NBA Top Shot and Flow blockchain
    NBA star Andre Iguodala. Image: Wikipedia In brief CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs has raised a new $12 million investment round. Several NBA players… · More participated, alongside new and existing investment firms. The company is working on NBA Top Shot, Dr. Seuss crypto collectibles, and more.
    Launches officially on TechCrunch :-)
    ZenHub becomes the first-ever PM tool inside GitHub
    GitHub is now popular enough for other companies to start building services around it. One of the latest projects that aims to make working with GitHub… · More faster and easier is ZenHub.

    With ZenHub, teams get a project management service that is deeply integrated with GitHub and provides them with Trello-like drag-and-drop task boards, easy uploads for any type of file (GitHub’s interface only allows image file uploads by default) and +1 buttons for providing quick feedback about commits, pull requests, suggestions and comments.
    Pierre Beugnot
    Matt Butler
    Leo Zhang
    With Leo Zhang, Matt Butler, Pierre Beugnot
    Axiom Zen Leads Canada's Most Innovative Companies
    Changing the way that product ideas grow into companies
    Axiom Zen, which labels itself as an “innovation studio,” is one of a new breed of company, more akin to incubators—organizations that support… · More entrepreneurial ventures as they grow from concept to a going concern—than traditional businesses.
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    My biggest achievement is the group of people I brought together @AxiomZenTeam

    In 6 years we built dozens of products and four independent businesses across enterprise B2B and consumer social – Routific (funded), ZenHub (bootstrapped), Fuel (acquired), and Dapper Labs, where I currently serve as CEO.

    Dapper Labs is the world's leading blockchain entertainment company, funded by Andreessen Horowitz, USV, Venrock, and GV, among others.

    Angel investor with 20+ seed checks including to winners like @Intercom and @Tout (acquired by Marketo). 10 exits and counting.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Go to Market Strategy Corporate Strategy Product Development Networking Product Marketing Positioning Technology Venture Fundraising Team Building Software Engineering User Experience Design Blockchain Product Design Animation Branding Illustration Logo Design Motion Graphics Service Design UI/UX Design User Research Web Design User Interface Design Design Thinking Visual Design Design Patterns Design Brand and Identity Design Corporate Identity Brand Design and Strategy UX Design Lean UX UX Research Rapid UX/UI Prototyping UX Strategy Backend Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Game Development Mobile Development Software Architecture Web Development iOS Development Go (Golang) Golang Node.js NodeJS Front-End/Full-Stack (UI-AngularJS-JS-NodeJS) Full-Stack Web Development (Node/Redux/React)
    What I'm Looking For

    Product-focused founders building ambitious, forward-thinking teams that can make the world better.

    I mainly invest in B2B SaaS or consumer social. I'm also interested in deep tech (AI/ML, blockchain) projects but am very selective and only back highly technical founders.

    Describe what you're looking for in a company.
    Locations
    Vancouver San Francisco
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    execution, made in america, hard thing about hard things, only the paranoid survive, antifragile, zero to one

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