product builder and angel investor 🚀 prev led: ads @shopify • @shop pay • @bookingcom preferred • @carousell • @vinted
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2009
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When I started using @boardyai early this year, signal-to-noise was suboptimal. Impressive how it got better over time, now facilitating some genuine deal flow for me as an angel!
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Andrius Baranauskas retweeted
Yesterday we launched Nu for the US, and announced Nu Global to the world – giving high yield, free remittances and the simple interface that have made Nu be loved (fanatically!) by over 140M customers. From Brazil, to the US, to 35+ markets – we're building the world's most loved bank. Come join us –– it's still early
Whenever I struggle with focus myself:
External monitor → Laptop screen
Contact lenses → Glasses
The more tunnel vision, the better!
top shopping app + top 10 app overall in the us...
@vinted not bad for a little app from Vilnius, Lithuania 🇱🇹
nikita quitting when @vinted is about to overtake x. coincidence? i don’t think so.
Cost efficiency + ease of running agents are both hot topics these days. Excited to see @i_zerbib and @sapiom launching a platform for this. Proud investor here, excited to watch what’s next!
@sapiom just raised a $35 million Series A from @dragonflyvc , @Accel , @AnthropicAI and others to help unlock the next trillion agents.
The first thing we’re tackling is cost.
To make that happen, we are launching three new products today at Sapiom.ai
oh, @claudeai, why so mean to your minions?
> noowwwwww… fasteRRRR… just give me the table!
(real fun jamming with @JZaliaduonis here)
Apple confirms @OpenAI is the biggest threat it has ever faced. Mobile → AI shift means a new OS and a new main device, and Cupertino clearly knows it. ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9…
Leaving Shopify after 5+ years. Very grateful for the chance to help grow Shop Pay, conceive Shop Cash, scale Shop Campaigns from 0, and lead the APM program.
@tobi has built a great company where you can build and ship. @carlrivera invited me here. He + @nejatian pushed me to the best version of myself.
@Shopify is packed with exceptional people. I can’t wait to see what they build next.
Proud of how Lithuania 🇱🇹 keeps showing up in @Shopify story quietly in interesting ways. From @OberloApp acquisition to builders inside the co to apps like @omnisend and @KachingAppz. Small country, increasing impact 🚀
Last year, the developers building on @Shopify took home $1.3B.
Behind that: a designer who bought his hometown football club with app revenue @malisauskasLT . Three co-founders who turned a lunch conversation into a $100M company @PostscriptIO. A builder who's been here since the first 100 apps and never looked back @isaacbowen.
When the ecosystem wins, merchants win. shopify.com/news/billion-dol…
The @Shop Pay mafia taking off 🚀
Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/sa…
This is also why UBI (Universal Basic Income) is incompatible with democracy. Create a mass of UBI recipients and you guarantee one thing: endless votes to increase it.
Cea Weaver on rent-stabilized tenants as a voter block:
"So like you said, there are about 2.4 million people who live in rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.
And, you know, tenants really could be a difference maker in this mayoral election... Rent-stabilized tenants are a multiracial, multi-generational block of voters. They are not, we're not just talking about, you know, progressive young people.
We're not just talking about people who are already politicized.
We're talking about a potentially enormous working class voter block who are with us, because right now they're being forced to choose between childcare or groceries or healthcare, staying in New York at all.
Right? Um, so the importance of a rent freeze is not just about the rent, it's also about bringing working class people back, um, into it's civic, civic engagement."
Andrius Baranauskas retweeted
I wrote an op ed for the @nationalpost today to say this plainly: Jewish Canadians are being targeted simply because they are Jewish. That is antisemitism. And it is getting worse.
nationalpost.com/opinion/can…
Product Network is one of the highlights of @Shopify Winter ’26 Edition.
The future of marketing is brands working together. Shopify Collective enabled shared merchandising. This year, Shop Campaigns expanded that collaboration into post-checkout promotion.
Product Network goes further. Native, in-store recommendations from other brands. A seamless buyer experience: discover, explore, and buy without leaving the store. It’s the fastest path to converting more buyers and tackling the reality that 95%+ of visitors never convert. More customers, more revenue.
There is massive untapped potential to create demand outside existing walled gardens. Product Network is a meaningful step toward unlocking that opportunity, and growing success for brands.
Terrific job by Amanda, @joerj, Francesco, @jennystanchak, and many many others involved. Launching something so complex, so fast!
