Summary
Joseph Urgo is a founder and operations leader with nine years of experience scaling startups and web3 projects, combining roles from derivatives trading to support operations at Coinbase. He founded Sourcerers to support top Ethereum teams and co-founded district0x to help decentralize marketplaces, blending deep product-market instincts with repeatable, growth-focused processes. Known for building and coaching high-performance teams—drawing on seven years as a world-class professional poker player and manager—he excels at hiring, training, and network-driven business development. His background in trading and crypto operations gives him a rare mix of risk-aware decision making and operational rigor that accelerates early-stage ventures. Based in Florida, he focuses on strategy, partnerships, and operational systems that scale decentralized products.
9 years of coding experience
English