Eren is a highly experienced product manager, accomplished researcher, and devoted JPEG enthusiast. He began his career at Firefly, a Google Ventures Portfolio Company valued at over $600M, where he worked closely with the co-founders to successfully scale the company from a small team of 11 employees to over 200 and achieve $20M in ARR. Afterward, he became the product leader at Akkio, where he conducted ICP experiments and product revisions to achieve product-market fit for their no-code ML platform for businesses.
Eren's passion for both technology and art runs in his family. During his undergraduate studies at Brown University, he published the article "Hardware Acceleration of Robot Scene Perception Algorithms" in ICCAD in 2020 and exhibited his kinetic sculptures. Eren was ultimately convinced by NFTs to fully devote himself to the crypto industry. Together with Hasan, he traded and built a data aggregator to collect, flip and arbitrage trade, which led them to identify significant problems in the space that they have been working to solve.