Summary
Lawrence Lanoff is a visionary founder and futurist with eight years of concentrated experience in building decentralized AI and crypto-native organizations, currently co-founding AMAI and previously co-founding TokenAI and Ecofi.io. He blends creative leadership—from film and publishing to photography—with deep early-stage conviction in cryptocurrency as a seed investor in Bitcoin and long-time investor in Ethereum. As Head of R&D at Soullight Research and president of Soullight, Inc., he designs transformational experiences and retreats that marry human-centered teaching with emerging tech. Lawrence frames AI, programmable capital, and compute as a new operating system for human expression, advocating modular, permissionless infrastructure rather than incremental upgrades to legacy systems. Based in Carson City, Nevada, he combines artistic sensibility and practical startup experience to build permissionless organizations that prioritize sovereignty and creative agency.
8 years of coding experience
42 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Syracuse University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Bennington College
Spanish