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Tina is a writer, designer, and entrepreneur creating new cultural and economic possibilities enabled by markets, networks, and technologies at the frontier.

She’s leading developer tools at Base, an Ethereum L2 network. She was the co-founder and CEO of Station Labs, which was acquired by Coinbase in June, 2024.

She occasionally advises & angel invests in uniquely ambitious projects.

Previously, she worked as an investor at Pace Capital and NEA, uncovering secrets shaped by the changing tides of technology, incentives, and narratives.

Selected essays:
︎︎︎ The Last Human Choice
︎︎︎ Ideas framework for venture outcomes
︎︎︎ Designing Token Economies
︎︎︎ The New Frontier of Belonging
︎︎︎ Brave New Decade
︎︎︎ The Illusions of Free-to-play
︎︎︎ Embedded Education

Selected media apperances:
︎︎︎ The Future of Work is on Ethereum, ETH Global
︎︎︎ Transporting Talent in Web3, Colossus
︎︎︎ Reputation, Governance, Token Models, Seed Club
︎︎︎ The transience of identity & finding belonging in web3, On the Other Side

Quentin Tarantino

Todd Field

Denis Villeneuve

David Fincher

Hedy Lamarr

Martin Scorsese

Virgil Abloh

Yohji Yamamoto

Anthony Vaccarello

Phoebe Philo

Yuja Wang

Chloé Zhao

Bong Joon-ho

Park Chan-wook

Zhang Yi Mou

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Jorge Luis Borges

Ramond Carver

Ted Chiang

Albert Camus

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Friedrich Hayek

Benjamin Labatut

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Haruki Murakami

Jeremy Strong

Rainer Maria Rilke

Hermann Hesse

Steve Jobs

Lei Zhang

David F. Swensen

Mike Speiser

Graham Duncan

Zaha Hadid

Bernard Arnault

Ray Dalio

Satya Nadella

Ginni Rometty

Melanie Perkins

Barack Obama

Xu Yangtian

Zhang Yiming

Zhang Xiaolong

Patrick Collison

Eileen Gu

Angela Merkel

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