📍Hi! I'm Mika. I'm currently:
- in New York
- working on wedding planning
- writing startup lessons
- reading Company of One, Deep Work
- creating a lot of journal entries — that time of the year for reflection!
- watching White Lotus (slow, huh?)
- listening to Wicked songs on repeat
- addicted to Spanish lattes
Last updated @April 3, 2025
Bio
CEO and co-founder @ withparallax.com. Moved $100M in volume.
I’m 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 Jobs (if you see those purple “Hiring” rings on people’s profiles, built that and more!), Kumu (led the team to product-market fit in the early days) & Ripcord through the KP Product Fellowship. 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 I’m a proud Freeman Asian scholar and Philippine Science High School scholar. I graduated B.A. Economics, Psychology, Data Analysis from Wesleyan University, Phi Beta Kappa & a summa cum laude equivalent.
I'm most passionate about broadening access through tech in emerging markets like my home, the Philippines & in the rest of S.E. Asia. 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 & obsessing over payments. Any interesting ideas in crypto, fintech and cross-border payments? Send me a note at hello@mikareyes.com.
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