$25M+
Founded 500px
Raised over $25M in venture capital, including from Andreessen Horowitz. Grew it to millions of users and nearly 100 people, and sold it to a publicly traded company in 2018.
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Work with Ev
Hands-on help with private and open-weights AI, stablecoins, and growing consumer products, from someone who has built all three.
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How it works
Three steps, no surprises. You always know what comes next and what it costs.
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Intro call Free
We talk through where you are and what you're trying to do. If I'm not the right person, I'll tell you, and point you to someone who is.
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Scope
Right after the call, my AI agent sends you a short written proposal: goals, deliverables, timeline and price. I review every one before it goes out. You decide with everything on the table.
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Consulting
We do the work together, hands-on, and finish with a clear handover so your team owns the result.
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What we can work on
Private & open-weights AI
- Local and on-prem models: selection, hardware, deployment
- RAG over your documents and systems
- Cost, privacy and quality vs. hosted APIs
Stablecoins
- USDC payments, payouts and treasury
- The Canadian legal framework, in plain language
- Implementation and hands-on coding
Consumer growth & fundraising
- Zero to one, growth loops, distribution
- Fundraising narrative, deck and process
- Expansion into Japan and Asia
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Track record
What I've done myself, before helping anyone else do it.
$25M+
37×
Luminar in Japan
Grew Luminar's sales in Japan 37× in three years, making it the company's 3rd largest market by revenue.
$5M+ raised
Startup fundraises
Guided founders, mostly at pre-seed, through their raises: from the story and the deck to a closed round. Over $5M raised across these companies.
Weekly
Inference for OpenRouter
Runs inference for OpenRouter, and tests and runs new open-weights models every week.
Alibaba Qwen3.8
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5
DeepSeek V4
Moonshot Kimi K3
MiniMax M3
Z.ai GLM-5.3
and more
Writing for Forbes
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