I was twelve when I got my first laptop. It would start overheating after a few hours. I remember vividly how it would burn my legs after a while as I placed it on my lap, forcing me to take a break.
With that melting laptop, I'd play World of Warcraft, which ended up paying for lunch. It didn't take long to realize the internet wasn't just a place to consume things. It was a place to create.
Supply and Demand
My first real business at 13 was selling premium digital currency from an MMO game at a 2x markup, which you could only buy with a credit card. Which parent would let their kid spend $10 on some pixels on the screen with their card? Most would never let their kids do so, neither mine, so I became the middleman to pay for my own supply and provide my friends a service.
At some point, I had employees paid in such currency and a referral system that would reach other schools and playgrounds.
I learned supply and demand.
Precision
I trained as an aircraft mechanic and joined the Spanish Air Force as a paratrooper. Later I flew commercial as a pilot. Two careers built on the same principle: execute precisely or people get hurt. No margin for error. No second chances at altitude.
Spent most of my free time reading fantasy and sci-fi. Over 1,000 books.
A New Market
Moved through fintech and digital assets. Not just to make a living, but trying to understand what was structurally real underneath. What I found was a market being built in public, with no incumbents and no rulebook.
Built, succeeded, and failed at countless ventures. Travelled the world and obsessed over my personal and business growth.
All In
Then 2020. I finished my commercial licence into a grounded industry, and went all-in on the thing that was still open.
At Mutant Labs I ran growth and partnerships and was elected to the board of a company governed by shareholder vote. A 15-person organisation, an eight-figure investment portfolio, and the main product past $20M in proceeds. I ran the thesis and allocation on an $800k position that returned $7M through to liquidation, $7M of that $20M directly attributed to me.
I co-founded Syndicate, a fintech that reached 550 paying customers in 90 days on a €5,000 marketing budget. Then the Onchain Foundation, where I joined as Community and Business Development Manager, proposed a growth plan, and ran it through to completion. Nine months later I was promoted to own the growth function outright. Brand from zero to enterprise retainers.
Represented the organisation at industry conferences in Singapore, Dubai, Paris and Barcelona. Delivered a conference keynote in New York and panels in Miami.
The Tools Changed
I consulted an AI business for the first time in 2023. A year later I built my first AI agent. Tried to automate my social media, failed. The output was terrible.
Blinked, and now we're here.
The gap between an idea and something that actually works has never been smaller.
We're living through a structural shift. No matter how fast you move, the frontier moves faster. We're accelerating toward something we can't yet fathom.
Dantian
At an industry conference in Cannes I entered my first hackathon. Six hours, solo, blank page to working product. I ended up a finalist and brought home a cash prize. The same day, I founded Dantian.
Dantian is an AI research company engineering the future of human and synthetic integration. Not replacing humans with AI. Not bolting chatbots onto workflows. Engineering the interface layer where human judgment and machine capability compound each other.
Digital assets gave me the values. AI gives me the tools. Dantian is where both meet.
Jean.