Juan Leal
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What I’m currently up to
- Building the blockchain for payments at Tempo
- Eating my way through New York
- Playing Geoguessr
What I’ve worked on
- Joined as Base’s 3rd marketer and contributed to growing it into one of the largest Ethereum L2s. Highlights include Onchain Summer, Flashblocks, Stage 1 Decentralization, Base-Solana bridge, and Coinbase x Y Combinator Request for Startups
- Built the growth, content, & product marketing functions from 0 to 1 at thirdweb - leading 15+ product launches, PM’ing our website, & producing tons of written content
- Did growth marketing at Mixpanel - running SEO, PM'ing our website, & working on EMEA expansion
- Worked with early-stage startups and student founders at Dorm Room Fund, Ripple Ventures, and IDEA
What I believe in
- Do things with urgency. Have a high internal clockspeed
- Ship something every day
- Commit
- Procrastination is usually fear in disguise
- When procrastinating, tell yourself you’re gonna do the thing for just 2 minutes
- Let it be casual
- Growth is cringing at how little you knew 6 months ago
- Nothing worth doing is easy