Who is Justin Liao?

Hi, I’m Justin.

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I am a Miami/NYC-based Cartographer of Connection, Curiosity Architect, and Luck Engineer.

My forté is generating serendipity and connecting the dots - nothing fires me up more than bringing people and ideas together to catalyze business, technology, and culture.

I’m obsessed with cultivating communities and solving weird problems. Currently, I am at Praxis. Praxis is a Society-as-a-Service company, building a new city with our community. The thesis is simple; our brightest minds are working on exiting Earth to either Mars or the Metaverse. Humanity was born on this planet and we are shamefully letting it decay. We can try to escape inward, we can try to escape outward. Or, we can oblige our duty to build a beautiful future on Earth. In pursuit of our community’s new home, we are actively engaging with landowners and governments, designing economic and political systems, architecting buildings and infrastructure, and bringing together the people who will inhabit them. We are supported on this mission by investors including Paradigm Capital, Alameda Research, Robot Ventures, Bedrock, Fred Ehrsam, Balaji Srinivasan, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Joe Lonsdale.

Prior to this, I predominantly spent my time working in the enterprise blockchain space. I had the pleasure of working with some of the most interesting people in the world, architecting and incubating large B2B Market Networks with Fortune 100 Enterprises.

Outside of “work”, I enjoy moving my body, driving really fast, and being a purveyor of good times for my friends. I also enjoy filmmaking. I recently produced my first documentary with Vice Media & Library Films - you can watch it here on Showtime TV.

I feel very strongly that my interdisciplinary passions allow me to come to grips with the social, political, business, and technological meaning of the changes taking place in our time.

If you think we have something in common, feel free to DM me on Twitter or Instagram.