Asymmetric

Investing in Bitcoin DeFi:
- Bitcoin L2s
- Metaprotocols 
- Dapps
- Staking

Portfolio so far: BOB, Bitlayer, Mezo, Fractal, Liquidium, Satflow, Glittr, Satlayer, Arch

General Partner

Held Media

Marketing advisory and fractional CMO services. Clients include Trust Machines, Taproot Wizards, and others.

Marketing Advisor

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

• Scaled team from 2 to 30 in 3 years 
• Built out data infrastructure, processes, and channel strategy
• Deployed and managed $xxx million paid acquisition budget across 30+ countries

Head of Marketing

Director Of Business Development

Interchange (Acquired by Kraken)

Co-Founder

Uber

Head of ASO (App Store Optimization)
• Optimized Rider/Driver/EATS App and Play store pages for conversion and search discoverability 
• Unlocked tens of millions of incremental installs 
• Localized Rider/Driver/EATS App and Play store pages in 30 localizations 
• Collaboration with Rider/Driver/EATS product teams, marketing, comms, on App/Play store strategy 
• Negotiated App Annie, SensorTower, AppBot, and StoreMaven vendor contracts 
• Drove new product features through close relationships with Apple, Google, and SensorTower
• Scaled ASO from a solo operation to a 3 person team in 1 year

Growth Marketing Manager

ChangeTip

• Ported web experience to a native iOS app 
• Used market, UX, and guerrila research to inform product decisions  
• Developed product integrations with 3rd party social networks (ex: Reddit) 
• Crafted narratives for feature launches, product integrations, and marketing campaigns

Product Manager

Blockchain.com

• Drove the overall product vision, strategy, and requirements that fueled user growth and product evolution
• Scaled the company from 0-10 employees 
• Grew user base from 1M to 2.7M (170%) in 12 months w/ only organic channels

Product Team Lead

Zeroblock (Acquired by Blockchain)

• Designed a cohesive mobile UX/UI experience across platforms
• Managed development of iOS, Android, and web applications
• Propagated our narrative through mainstream press such as: WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and Bloomberg. 
• Grew DAU from 0 to 10,000 in under 8 months

Dan is investing in Bitcoin DeFi as a GP at Asymmetric and a marketing advisor at Trust Machines, Taproot Wizards, Mezo, and others. He’s also a Bitcoin educator with over 850,000 followers on social media and focuses primarily on the Bitcoin DeFi sector. 

He was formerly the Head of Marketing at Kraken, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges. He is a serial crypto entrepreneur with two exits (Interchange > Kraken, ZeroBlock > Blockchain.com). In between his time in crypto, he was on the Growth Product and Marketing teams at Uber. He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised of the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and others.

Dan Held

Défense Conseil International

Animateur des cours de formation aéronautique tous niveaux en langue Française et Anglaise.

Instructeur Avionique

Armée de l’air et de l’espace

Chef d'équipe avionique Rafale

Chef d'équipe avionique Mirage F1

Equipier Avionique Mirage F1

Formation Professionelle Avionique

Formation militaire

Université de Savoie

Etudiant en Math Informatique Appiqué aux Sciences

In the French Air Force from 2004 to 2021 as avionics engineer.
Teammate and team leader on Mirage F1 until July 2014.
Teammate and team leader on rafale since July 2014.
17 years of duty.

Now avionics instructor for DCI company.

Based in Qatar.

* Compétences Professionnelles : 

- Management d'équipe : capacité à gérer une équipe, à réaliser et à mener à terme les projets.
- Spécialiste avionique : expert sur systèmes électriques, électroniques, contre-mesure, radar, radio et reconnaissance.
- Contrôle qualité : connaissance de la réglementation qualité dans le domaine aéronautique, renseignement de la documentation de suivi et d'entretien.
- Préparation des chantiers : maintenance préventive et curative.
- Logistique : commande, réception, reversement et suivi du matériel.
- Contrôle de l'exécution des opérations de maintenance.
- Formation du personnel étranger sur les systèmes du Rafale.
- Diffusion de cours : animer des cours de formation aéronautique tous niveaux en langue Française et Anglaise.

* Professionals Skills : 

- Team management: ability to manage a team, realize and complete the projects.
- Avionics specialist: expert on electrical, electronic systems, countermeasure, radar, radio and recce systems.
- Quality control: knowledge of quality regulation in the aeronautics, tracking documentation information and maintenance.
- Preparation of work sites: preventive and curative maintenance.
- Logistics: ordering, receiving, payment and monitoring of equipment.
- Control of the execution of maintenance operations.
- Training of foreign personnel on Rafale systems.
- Course delivery: facilitate all aeronautical training courses levels in English and French.

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