I currently live in London and build my second startup in the consumer space. I grew up in Romania and previously worked for many years in crypto.
Things I'm interested in:
- Voice AI. I optimize and run speech to speech pipelines. An example of what I've been playing with is here.
- Consumer/prosumer apps. I'm mostly interested in building prosumer and consumer apps and marketplaces. The prospect of serving millions (or even a billion people) is exciting!
- Books. Some of my favorite reads are Poor Charlie's Almanack, The Beginning of Infinity and Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Reach out if you'd like to debate any of them.
- Distribution hacks. I infiltrated 40 student buildings and took notes about how and where to place ads and get users quickly for any app I build. It's surprisingly effective and as far as I know, no one else is doing this in London.
- Anime. Dr Stone's my favorite anime but you probably figured it out already :)
Links
stefanionescu on GitHub; dr__stoney on Twitter; my YC cofounder matching profile is here; email: stefan@yapwith.ai
Past Projects
A few years ago I built RAI, a modified version of the DAI stablecoin. It used an on-chain proportional integral controller to stabilize itself. The project scaled to almost $400M in AUM at the peak tho it never got PMF.
I was also project lead at Astroport, a Cosmos based DEX. The project handled $1.7B in AUM at the peak and had more than 20K users.