The face behind the hood

About The Dev

Jake is the creator of $HOODIE. He previously founded @qrcoindotfun, which generated $200K+ in revenue in its first year as a daily auction for attention on Base. He started his career in investment banking (tech M&A) and later worked for Balaji Srinivasan as his chief of staff.

Jake hosts a podcast called Pod of Jake, where he's interviewed guests like Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin, and Brian Armstrong across more than 200 episodes.

As an independent onchain builder, Jake also built @BaseColorsNFTs (30,000+ mints, the NFT collection for every color on the internet) and @kondodotfun (10,000+ users, batch swap tokens to clean your wallet).