Early on, I learned a crucial lesson ~

Building side projects leads to unparalleled avenues of opportunity.

During my first year of University, I built Agora Labs — a platform that pioneered the way for anyone to create their own currency and reward early adopters.

Within weeks of launching, we reached a market cap of over $500K USD. We later raised hundreds of thousands from investors including the DeSo Octane Fund, ZFellows, Envision Accelerator, and Harmony Protocol amongst others. Almost exactly a year later, on October 2022, Agora Labs was acquired by Talent Protocol and integrated with their 300K+ userbase.

Through this journey, I found a sense of belonging by immersing myself in various tech communities where I met some of my current closest friends. Prominent among these communities were Buildergroop, hackNY, Socratica, Neo, and Inner Circle.

Now I'm building Halation – an empire that is building & buying internet companies. Currently it's fully self-funded and we've had one major exit from it already. Launching companies with an absolutely cracked team.

You can find me at @mattespoz on the rest of the internet.