Product and growth leader. Founder-to-CEO experience across travel, marketplaces, consumer crypto, and AI-native products.
I build products where the hard part isn't the software — it's figuring out the important question of which customer matters first, what the incentives need to be, and what not to build yet.
Based in Lisbon · Looking for remote (US / Global)
01 — About
I've spent the last decade building products in emerging industries where the user behavior, the business model, and the technology were all evolving at the same time.
I co-founded Airhosts Forum in 2014 — now the largest Airbnb host forum community online — then co-founded Altcoin Fantasy, a bootstrapped crypto trading education platform that grew to 350K+ users through 99% organic growth.
Along the way I won eight hackathons, including four consecutive Money 20/20 Grand Prizes.
Before going full-time on Altcoin Fantasy, I spent a year at BCAA as a Senior Associate Manager across Product Development and Strategic Ventures, building my product management and strategy skills that would later help me as both a founder and product leader.
Between Altcoin Fantasy and Dtravel, I was Head of Product Marketing and New Market Expansion at GrowFlow, a B2B SaaS platform for cannabis compliance and operations. I built a GTM process, launched 2 products to beta that had been stuck in development for 1+ years, created a new-market launch playbook, hired and led the expansion team, and launched into three new states in six months — the kind of hands-on operator work I find most energizing.
Most recently, I co-founded and led Dtravel as CEO, helping evolve the company from a Web3 home-sharing marketplace into a direct booking network and rewards layer for short-term-rental operators. Dtravel launched with venture backing, processed live bookings (including the world's first blockchain vacation rental booking), integrated crypto and fiat payment flows, built PMS-connected direct booking infrastructure, and gained industry recognition in several areas, including winning the 2024 Shortyz Rising Star Award.
The through-line in my work is early product judgment with a strategic GTM and growth lens layered on top. I do my best work when the problem isn't fully defined yet. The discovery work, the first version, the hard tradeoffs about what to build and what to leave — that's where I'm most useful. I'm now looking for a senior PM or product-led operating role at an AI-forward company with real distribution and problems worth solving carefully.
02 — Selected work
A showcase of four products I've worked on across travel infrastructure, consumer crypto, AI-native product development, and community, showing the range and scope of my product sense and strategy. Each one taught me something I carry into how I think about product and strategy now.
2021–2025
Web3 direct booking short term rental network
Co-founded and led a venture-backed Web3 travel company from its initial marketplace concept to a direct booking network for short-term rental operators, through a $7M seed round, a token launch across four exchanges, and a full product pivot.
2025
Children's nutrition & meal planning app
Built a children's nutrition app from scratch in 2025, shipped to closed beta, then made the deliberate call to pause before public launch after validating that the category's liability and compliance requirements exceeded what a solo founder could responsibly carry.
Read full case study2018–2020
Gamified crypto trading education
Co-founded a bootstrapped crypto trading education platform that grew to 350K+ users through 99% organic growth, monetized through B2B partnerships with leading crypto companies, and taught me that a consumer product's business model is part of the user experience.
Read full case study2014–now
Airbnb online host community
Co-founded the largest Airbnb host community online in 2014. It now runs itself, with an average of 70K MAU and minimal active involvement — a long-running case study in building something that compounds and is long lasting when it has true PMF.
Read full case studyI'm currently looking for senior growth or operations roles at AI-forward companies. I'm especially interested in teams with strong distribution, high product standards, and velocity.
Crypto-native companies are very welcome — I've spent significant time in Web3 and consumer crypto and know the category well.
If you're hiring for something that might fit, or want to compare notes on AI tooling or anything in this portfolio — get in touch.