Carl Cortright Email & Phone Number

United States

One of the fastest-growing social trading platforms in crypto. In under a month we've build a product with tens of thousands of users, millions of views, and tens of millions in volume.

Thrive is a mix of high-end software engineering consultancy, holding company for high-growth software projects, and angel fund owned and operated by Carl Cortright based in San Francisco, CA. Email carl@thrivepointgroup.com for inquiries about consulting or working together.https://thrivepointgroup.com

San Francisco, California, Us

YC S24. Led all technical implementation for flyflow.ai . Helped co-own GTM and product. We ran the startup as a series of experiments. Team is going to continue with it, but I left. I built 4 fully-fledged products and a bunch more experiments: - Slack Customer Success Tool (eg Pylon Competitor) - Didn't get a ton of traction on this, clear it could be a good lifestyle business - LLM Fine-Tuning as a Service - In 2 months to ~11 users and we were pushing 200M tokens per month through our OpenAI compatible API. Probably would have been a 3-5k/mo business if we monetized it. I think the reason we gave up on this was less about the business and more about our conviction in fine-tuning long term.- AI Voice API - Full end-to-end twilio integrated streaming pipeline for "talking" to AI (eg Retell, Vapi, Bland etc). Growth was spikey but had one big customer that would variably do a few thousand calls per day. - AI-powered Lead Sourcing - Onboarded ~700 users and got to ~2k/mo in revenue from our PLG product.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Data infrastructure and APIs in web3. Raised $5.3m seed in March 22' from Kindred, Foundry, Matchstick, Chapter One, Coinbase Ventures, and various small funds and angels. Shut down due to market conditions. Returned ~40% of capital back to investors Built several products under our Web3 umbrella: - Human readable web3 indexer and API -98% decoded data warehouse and blockchain data ETL for Snowflake and Bigquery- AI recommendation engine and API for NFTs and tokens, powering recommendations for consumer web3 applications During this period the market for web3 infrastructure was going through a trough. We scaled it to 10s of thousands in MRR, but realized that there wasn't a market to build a venture scale business for this infrastructure. We experimented briefly with introducing a token model, working with Fenwick and Fireeyes to design a token mechanic, but ultimately got blocked by legal and regulatory issues.Managed team of 10 and owned all aspects of engineering, go-to-market, product etc. Tried a pivot the last few months and didn't get enough conviction to double down. Returned capital.

Remote First, Us

Tech lead on the ledger team. - Led the rewrite and backfill of account history for all Coinbase accounts from the Coinbase monolith to a golang microservice, supporting over 100m customers and 4B account history entries used for financial accounting, user display, and taxes, with zero downtime and 100% consistency - Led the migration of the ledger database with over $250B in assets tracked from RDS Postgres to Aurora. Coordinated a successful coinbase.com downtime with stakeholders across product, consumer, marketing, legal etc- Tech lead on the ledger service, responsible for consistently moving $1T+ / yr- Service area owner for all staking and interest distributions, helped grow staking at Coinbase from zero to a $100m in revenue product line- First line incident commander for 7, 8, and 9 figure impact double spend incidents (primarily Coinbase <> Blockchain double spends), helped remediate and fix $100m+ in accounting and money movement errors, helped maintain alerting and monitoring systems for all money movement at Coinbase- Transitioned to COBS (Coinbase Overlay Blockchain Service) where I was a founding team member for Coinbase's first indexed blockchain APIs and services

Remote First, Us

10% time on top of my software engineering responsibilities, served on the Coinbase Ventures investment committee as the only technical member - Worked with corporate development to source and diligence investments in web3 companies - Area owner for dev tools and protocols, did deep dives and diligence calls with founding teams- Led ~$5m worth of participatory checks in companies like Arweave, Alexar, and Tenderly

Remote First, Us

Primarily worked on Coinbase Pro / Trading Platform. - Founding team member of the MBL (margin, borrow, lend team)- Built lending system that originated 500m in lending volume between retail and institutional investors on the coinbase exchange platform- Service owner for the liquidations service responsible for all margin liquidations across retail and institutional - Introduced Cadence (now temporal) as the paved road for golang and ruby asychronous jobs and workflows at Coinbase, this powered the liquidations service - Helped write and open source the ruby client for Temporal https://github.com/coinbase/temporal-ruby- Transitioned to the custodian team, part of a team of 2 engineers who re wrote all of the trading workflows (buy, sell, deposit etc) on coinbase.com from a custom in-house solution to temporal, saving Coinbase millions of dollars in losses

Remote First, Us

Interned Summer 2018 through my last year in school. Worked on:- Coinbase Commerce fullstack, helped build out v1 of commerce withdrawal functionality with embedded frontend wallet functionality (Rails, react, postgres)- Transitioned to the Paradex team while I was in school, worked on backend for one of the first DEX products, built as a 0x relayer (Python, Django, 0x)- Paradex was put on maintenance mode and the team pivoted to working on derivatives for the markets team based in Chicago (Golang, microservices)- Markets team was shut down, team moved to Coinbase Pro/Exchange where we focused on internal tooling and MBL (margin, borrow, lend) - (technology used - javascript, golang)

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- One of two students who participate in high-level board meetings with campus leaders and local tech executives, helping guide the strategy for campus computing as a whole- Assists with student/alumni events and engagement - Works directly with representatives from the local tech community to integrate campus programs with the broader Boulder ecosystem

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- Led team of 15 student organizers and managed all aspects of program development, overseeing sub-groups including sponsorship, operations/logistics, and marketing- Raised over $250k for the 2017, 2018, and 2019 programs from sponsors including Twitter, Workday, Github, Zayo Group, Foundry Group, NEO and Alteryx- Formed and managed strategic partnerships with campus stakeholders- Scaled from 200 student hackers in 2016 to 600 student hackers in 2018, including 50 hackers flying in from out of state

Boulder, Co, Us

- Worked on the new fund of funds strategy, created and maintained a system for data collection and analysis used to track thousands of companies, from hundreds of venture capital portfolios, for purposes of tracking and identifying potential investments- Worked directly with investment team to identify potential investment opportunities- Developed integrations with APIs to automate data entry, increase efficiency, and enhance the completeness of datasets- Participated in the development of the Venture Inclusion Network website (ventureinclusion.com), a diversity and inclusion-focused web platform that aggregates resources to educate investors and operators on issues involving harassment anddiscrimination in the venture industry

Madison, Wi, Us

Built robotic experiments to assist space researchers studying the effects of zero gravity on plants grown on the international space station.

S24, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Computer Science

High School, General Education