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2024
2024
Growing the Sui Ecosystem! Sui is the fastest blockchain with the best developer experience in web3. Focused on growing the Sui ecosystem.
2023
Serving as president of Class of 2018 for university alumni council. My term as President expires in July 2028. As Events Director for Cornell NorCal, I am focused on events for recent graduates.
2023 - 2024
2023 - 2024
Was one of the original investors investing personally in Mysten Labs. Asked to join on strategic deals growing the Sui ecosystem and future products from Mysten Labs. I lead Mysten’s efforts on defi and infrastructure. Sui is the fastest growing non-EVM chain in history setting record amounts in TVL and Volume. Sui has also set the record for most transactions by any blockchain in one day in history. Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure and ready for mass adoption. We create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3.
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
Investing in Web3. Finding opportunities in emerging web3 spaces and advising founders to build that future. Meet for pitches and collaborate with founders. Judge for Solana Summer Camp Hackathon choosing winners of categories and grand prize winner Hosted Trilemma event in SF about parallel blockchains with teams and founders of Solana, Aptos, and Sui. Follow me on Twitter @davidticzon
2021 - 2022
2021 - 2022
Work on the firm’s Blockchain and Crypto investments team. We invest in DeFi, Web3 infrastructure, NFTs, gaming, and metaverse projects. Reciprocal Ventures has been seed/early investors in Solana, The Graph, and Blockdaemon. Source web3 investments and be main point of contact for founders during investment process. Work on tokenomics research for advising founders, emerging web3 opportunities, investment memos, data insights from Dune sql queries and other data providers, and due diligence. Produce data reports including official data posted by Solana’s social media accounts. I also meet with founders daily for pitches and advising. Have advised founders on products and roadmaps. Predicted every Solana hackathon winner and advised founders for winning. Organized 200 to 500 person Solana events in San Francisco and New York City along with an event for The Graph. Have spoke on podcasts and on panels at conferences. I am very involved with the NFT ecosystem especially on Solana and one of the largest collectors since the start of NFTs on the chain. I hosted the very first Solana NFT meetups and know many of the founders of the most valuable NFT projects dating back to their mint and pre-mint days.
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2020
Product Manager for GE's consumer Internet of Things (IoT) and new smart home products.
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2020
Product Management for delivering technology solutions for the digital, distributed electric grid.
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2020
Product Management focused on search engine and Data Science
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019
BlackRock is trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm. BlackRock's assets under management total US$7.4 trillion across equity, fixed income, cash management, alternative investment, real estate and advisory strategies. BlackRock is the leading global asset manager, serving many of the world's largest companies, pension funds, foundations, and public institutions as well as millions of people from all walks of life.
2017 - 2018
2017 - 2018
Served as the original Business Lead during founding of being an engineering project team on campus. We are a diverse group of 60 students who are passionate about making a change in our community through design and technology. The team consists of product managers, designers and developers working on 6 projects ranging from a campus safety app to a course review website. Our Orientation Week app was downloaded by 75% of the freshman class this past year. Cornell DTI is recognized as an official Cornell University College of Engineering project team. Our team is sponsored by Google, Capital One, Asana, InVision, and Cornell Engineering Alumni Association. INFO 1998/4998 is the official course through which members of Cornell Design & Tech Initiative (Cornell DTI) earn academic credit for their contribution to the team. DTI is an Engineering Project Team that builds apps, websites, and other things of the like, all for the benefit of the Cornell community. All internal projects arise from the need to fill gaps in student life at Cornell using technology, and this is done by a team of students spanning many different areas of expertise, including design, software development, product management and business. See more information at cornelldti.org. Apps are available on Apple App Store and Google Play. http://cornelldti.org