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- I've built and exited companies without losing my mind
- I deployed AI that saved lives (seriously)
- I invested in frontier AI when everyone thought I was crazy (and in another 80+ Startups)

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I am done with Startups (with a twist)

I built startups that had tons of customers and amazing products.

I built startups that made an insane amount of money while being just a few HTML pages.

I built and sold startups, and the process is always the same:

Grind -> do …

I made an A.I short movie - and it is crazy

The best way to learn a new technology is to make something with it.

I signed up for a 48 hour competition, sponsored by RunwayML, Coca Cola and YouTube and I created a short movie in 5 hours. These are the things I learnt.

Good stuff

I created a "movie …

I managed a fund that gave no money, took no equity and had an exit

It was 2013 and I was in San Francisco reading the news about a European program that was going to "fund" new VCs. This would have been the beginning of the Startup community in Greece.

The issue is that most of these "VCs", were cookie-cutters: no Entrepreneurial background, no investing …

I organized my own conference like Gary Vee in 30 days

This year (2021 for the visitors from the future), I run my first own conference: "V as in Metaverse". It didn't have thousands of attendees (because there is a thing called COVID-19) but it had NFTs as tickets, tons of sponsors and happened in the best place you can be …

Trading Ethereum: Making 10% every 20 minutes

This is more of a "How to build your own algotrading strategy - the Ethereum edition" and not a "make money fast" blog post.

It is also a real example with real returns (and real production errors that cost me money) where you can see how to identify opportunities, why algotrading …

Machine Beats Human: Using Machine Learning in Forex

This is the another post of the series: How to build your own algotrading platform.

Machine learning and trading is a very interesting subject. It is also a subject where you can spend tons of time writing code and reading papers and then a kid can beat you while playing …

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Here's what I've learned about building things that change the world

- I've built and exited companies without losing my mind - I deployed AI that saved lives (seriously) - I invested in frontier AI when everyone thought I was crazy (and in another 80+ Startups)