Patrick Lung

Patrick Lung

I am exploring startup ideas in crypto at South Park Commons. I live in San Francisco, CA.

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Iā€™m looking for a cofounder! Learn more about me and what Iā€™m looking for.

Experience

Previously, I was a product manager at Uniswap, the largest decentralized cryptocurrency exchange with $2T of volume, working on NFTs and backend. Hereā€™s why I left.

I joined after they acquired Genie, an NFT marketplace aggregator that did $800M of trading volume, where I was head of product.

Before that, I improved Lyftā€™s pay and matching algorithms, saving $67M/year while increasing driversā€™ earnings by 4%. At Kite, I scaled our AI code completion plugin from 1 programming language to 13+. At Microsoft, I led the Windows and Mac PowerPoint teams and grew usage of AI design features by 10x.

I studied computer science at the University of North Carolina on a full-ride merit scholarship. I won UNCā€™s first hackathon as a team, and 2nd place (solo) in ā€œmost web3ā€ at Uniswapā€™s company hackathon. My strengths though, are in user research, design, and go-to-market.

Exploration

Iā€™m excited to build a mainstream business that uses crypto behind the scenes. Currently fascinated with new business models, incentive design, and new technology.

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Public crypto infrastructure: Building a fee-less marketplace and/or open-source software; and doing so in a financially valuable manner, such as a positive expected value lottery
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Global access to capital: Connecting non-crypto borrowers with restricted access to capital, to deep onchain liquidity, such as peer-to-peer cash advances.
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Zero knowledge proof applications: SaaS to enable trustless and private whistleblower programs, streamline verifications of airline status matching, etc.
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User-owned platforms: Vampire attacking a web2 platform that doesnā€™t reward its top users, with a capital-efficient go-to-market strategy, such as Stack Overflow for web3 devs
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Feed and algorithm control: Controlling the content you view, eg. Only happy content, filter out political content, prioritize launch announcements, deprioritize threads via a Farcaster (Twitter alternative) feed customizer.

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Iā€™d love to hear from you. Please reach out if anything piques your interest!

Personal Life

Iā€™m a dad who used to surf, hike, and social dance bachata. Iā€™m shaped by my past:

  • Iā€™m a world-class Go player (6 dan rating), having represented Canada in international tournaments. I also played competitive chess (1600 rating) and grinded online poker.
  • I performed with bachata, salsa, and hiphop dance teams.
  • I lived in Toronto, North Carolina, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing, and Seattle.
  • I havenā€™t watched TV or played video games since 2007, when I wanted to focus on academics in middle school.

Contact Me

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