Paul Alex

Software 3.0 reprompted.

Building a software 3.0 platform (coming soon) from the following building blocks:

01 · Physics & Marketplace Design

Stanford GSB, c. 2011 — with PhD advisor Prof. Hau Lee — Stanford GSB. In the office of PhD advisor Prof. Hau Lee.

Phystech (MIPT), math and physics. Stanford GSB PhD — from supply-chain math to dynamic marketplace design: the math underneath Uber, Airbnb, Thumbtack. Then Uber consulting.

02 · Networks & Social

Paul Alex with Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus at Stanford — Stanford. TAing Product Management with Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus.

Built Qalabria (QL), peer-to-peer social marketplace. A 2014 drive to Hillsborough with Pavel Durov (Telegram) anchored the next decade's thinking.

03 · Security & Growth

Built Axio — software-based trusted execution environments with David Mazières (Stanford CS); USPTO patent for zero-trust personal-data privacy.

Head of Special Projects at Verkada — Sequoia-backed physical security unicorn that treats growth as a first-order engineering problem.

Balancing security and growth was an important skill to master.

04 · Agentic AI

AGI House early residency, 2022-2024. Founded Successforce therein in 2022 — a "self-driving" CRM, two and a half years before Salesforce announced Agentforce. Bootstrapped to mid-six-figure ARR and ported key learnings to the company I am working on now.

The Glue

Silent meditation, cold plunge, long hikes, mountains, backcountry skiing, swimming. Reading: Jung on shadow, Frankl on meaning, Marcus Aurelius on discipline, and Hegel on becoming sovereign.

Paul Alex, featured in The Economist 1843 Long Reads — The Economist, 1843 — “Who moved my chips?”, 2023.

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