Summary
Daniel Yoon is a product and payments leader with 13 years of experience building high-growth consumer platforms, now investing and advising as General Partner at XC Ventures. He has led payments and partner programs at Blockdaemon, Medium, and Twitch/Amazon, where he was the first Payments PM and helped scale teams from one to 85+ FTE while delivering multi-hundred-percent MRR growth. Daniel combines startup founder chops—cofounding Thousand Markets and a product role at Tapingo (acquired by Grubhub)—with institutional finance experience from ISI Group and J.P. Morgan. He’s shipped merchant and payout platforms, revamped creator monetization programs, and bridged crypto and fiat payments infrastructure. Based in Valencia, he pairs technical product instincts and cross-border program management with hands-on experience launching international payments and partner expansions. Colleagues cite his knack for turning payments complexity into scalable revenue engines that unlock new creator and marketplace economics.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Global Innovation Program, Global Innovation Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Special Student Program, Special Student Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ScB Engineering, ScB Engineering at Brown University
Certificate in Leadership Principles, Certificate in Leadership Principles at Harvard Business School Online