CK

Chris Kurdziel

🕹️🎮 Investing and building in a more self-sovereign, creative and kind internet

New York, New York

Skills

Investments
Blockchain
Due Diligence
Deal Sourcing
Cryptocurrency
Entrepreneurship
Product Management
Start-ups
Venture Capital
Business Strategy
Competitive Analysis
Business Development
Social Media Marketing
Customer Relations
Digital Strategy
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Mergers & Acquisitions
Product Strategy
Strategic Planning
User Experience

Work Experience

Primordial

2022

  • Founder

    2022

2022

  • Contributor

    2022

    Game7 is a sub-DAO of BITDAO - it consists of a $500M treasury managed and deployed by the community to accelerate progress in crypto and gaming.

  • Mentor

    2015

2022 - 2023

  • Partner

    2022 - 2023

    Mirana is a cross-stage crypto VC that invests in entrepreneurs, projects, and other venture funds with check sizes ranging from $250k to $50M. I led the fund's application layer investments in gaming and web3.

2017 - 2022

  • Venture Partner

    2017 - 2022

    Joyance Partners is a $20M+ venture capital partnership that invests in companies with the capacity to deliver, or contribute to the delivery of, delightful moments. I advise on new consumer, crypto/web3, and immersive computing/media investments for the fund. Relevant companies: The Block, Medal.tv, Supermedium and others

2019 - 2020

  • Principal, Ventures

    2019 - 2020

    Led Samsung's early stage investment focus on gaming, crypto, and immersive technology via a $150M early stage venture capital vehicle. I was fortunate to invest in and work with companies like Medal.tv, Eternal, Forte, PlayVS, Dapper Labs, Spatial and more during my time at Samsung.

2016 - 2019

  • Director of Product, OTT

    2016 - 2019

    Vimeo OTT (formerly VHX) makes it easy for creators to offer their own video subscription service directly to audiences on any platform around the globe. We provide video infrastructure, backend APIs all the way to consumer app experiences across mobile and TV. After VHX's acquisition, I led the OTT product team from the addition of our first enterprise customers and through a period of hyper-growth (10x revenue and user growth) during which Vimeo OTT was the fastest growing business inside Vimeo.

2016 - 2017

  • Director of Product

    2016 - 2017

    Joined the team as the first PM taking the reins from the founders at the time the company launched its first subscription offerings.

  • Group Product Manager

    2014 - 2015

    Joined Samsung via acquisition to build next-gen TV experiences for Samsung's Smart TV platform, including custom open-source Android based hardware, connected home integrations and cloud services. I helped grow the team from 25 to over 90 (including the addition of 5 PMs) and led product efforts for Samsung's TV SDK with leading OTT and MVPD partners.

  • Product Lead

    2011 - 2014

    At Shelby, we built the social video graph and along with it, consumer video discovery apps to help users discover the best video from all over the web on their TV/mobile devices. We tracked hundreds of millions of pieces of social data across millions of different videos and used these to deliver serendipitous and delightful video recommendations to our users. I led the product team, growth/marketing efforts and did a little bit of everything else.