Lawson Bae
Passionate Leader | Experienced Founder | Growth Professional
IRL, online, and very much onchain
I grow people, teams, communities, and products.
VP of Growth at Mask, a consumer social conglomerate building and investing in products for web3
Executive Producer of { Full Circle } โญ๏ธ Decentralize Late Night Youtube)
Founder of RARA (acquired 2023), the social curation protocol enabling likes, comments, and tags for NFTs (Loud Paper & Docs)
Investor in Social Graph Ventures (an investment DAO for consumer social infrastructure and products) and Seed Club (an accelerator for onchain consumer products)
Advisor to Hashflow (a request for quote decentralized exchange and provable exchange infrastructure) and Autonomys (the foundation layer for AI3.0 with hyper-scalable storage, compute & consensus)
Co-Author ERC-1404, a simple restricted token standard for security tokens (Github & Website)
Onchain Cashflow Thought Leader with extensive writing on the future of protocols and onchain cashflow 18 months before DeFi Summer (Thread)
Founding Team of SynapseFi, the first banking API to open accounts and move money in the USA. Powered most of crypto in 2015-2017 cycle and fintech 2017 and beyond. A16z led Series B.
General Counsel & Licensed Attorney with extensive experience representing investment banks, fintechs, and crypto projects
Investment Banker with almost $750 million in fixed-income financings in bonds & leases
P.S. I'm casually obsessed with onchain M&A opportunities.