šHi! I'm Mika. I'm currently:
- in New York, but in SF for 3 weeks
- working on wedding planning
- writing startup lessons
- reading Company of One, Deep Work
- creating content on Tiktok & LinkedIn!
- watching Secrets We Keep
- listening to Gnarly by Katseye
- addicted to pistachios
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Bio
Recently CEO and co-founder @ Parallax. Acquired by Phantom.
- Led product vision and strategy, developing one of the earliest stablecoin cross-border payments companies.
- Scaled the business to over $100M+ in volume
- Raised ~$5M in venture funding from top VCs, including Dragonfly, General Catalyst & more
- Built and managed a cross-functional team of 10-15 team members across 8 countries
Iām grateful to have been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, Tatler Gen.T Leader of Tomorrow, Kleiner Perkins Fellowship SPC Founder Fellowship.
Previously product lead @ LinkedIn (if you see those purple āHiringā rings on peopleās profiles, built that and more!),Ā KumuĀ (led the team to product-market fit in the early days) &Ā RipcordĀ through theĀ KP Product Fellowship.Ā I started the Filip[in]os @ LinkedIn group & was a Women in Product executive member.
My family and I have basically paid $0 in tuition for my high school and college as Iām a proud Freeman Asian scholar and Philippine Science High School scholar. I graduated B.A. Economics, Psychology, Data Analysis fromĀ Wesleyan University,Ā Phi Beta KappaĀ & aĀ summa cum laude equivalent.
I'm a fan of broadening access to opportunities in emerging markets like my home, the Philippines & love to help ambitious people design careers (and lives) they actually want, not just what society tells them to.
On the side, I like to work on fun projects like a virtual startup incubator for emerging markets, the first playbook for launching NFTs (as an NFT) & launched a fun social card game.
Nowadays, I'm overloading on coffee & funneling my type A energy towards wedding planning.
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