Oliver Segovia 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇸🇬 I grew up in an Asian city that a Silicon Valley entrepreneur built after World War II. Though mostly forgotten today, this story is my mental model for how technology diffusion delivers prosperity around the world. I love helping people gain access to technology and relationships that help them build businesses. As an entrepreneur, I felt their pain first hand: absurd barriers in starting a business, rent-seeking transaction costs, getting denied access to credit, and outdated regulation. Our story at Ava, an e-commerce company I founded, is a case study at Harvard Business School and Stanford GSB. I was an early member of Facebook's Consumer Product Strategy & Insights team, shaping product & growth strategy for Facebook Groups, payments, video, and creator monetization. At Google Pay, I helped build the growth engine that pushed the app past 150M+ users and merchants and $400B in TPV. I worked at Coinbase and Ripple to grow their exchange, cross border and custody businesses. I got my start working on consumer insights and strategy at P&G and McKinsey. I’m an angel investor in my spare time, and have backed 11 startups, one of which is a unicorn. I've also written for the Harvar
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