📍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. Raised $4.5M in funding, hired a strong team of 10 folks, moved $100M in volume and learned many lessons along the way.
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 (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 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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