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Nick Sawinyh

Founder-Operator Product Leader / Head of Business Development

๐Ÿ“ USA (ET)

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Founder-operator Product leader with 9+ years building and scaling consumer-facing onchain products. Co-founded DexGuru ($1B+ cumulative trading volume, 100K DAU). Now driving BD and product strategy at Sablier (~$300M TVL). Deep expertise in consumer fintech growth, onchain trading, lifecycle mechanics, and L2 ecosystems.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 180,000

Skills

Retention Mechanics9/10
Consumer Fintech9/10
Growth Product Management9/10
Roadmap Ownership9/10
DeFi / Onchain Trading9/10
Lifecycle Marketing (9/10)Token Distribution / Launch GTM (8/10)AMM / Spot Market Structure (8/10)Business Development (8/10)Community Growth (8/10)Cross-Functional Leadership (8/10)EVM / L2 Ecosystems (8/10)Referral & Affiliate Programs (8/10)A/B Testing & Experimentation (8/10)Cohort & Funnel Analysis (7/10)Paid Acquisition (7/10)AI Tooling (Claude / LLMs) (7/10)Amplitude / Mixpanel (7/10)Fundraising (7/10)Content-Led Growth (7/10)

Work Experience

Head of Business Development

Sablier

Aug 2024 โ€” Present

Lead BD, product-adjacent roadmap, and strategic partnerships for the leading token distribution protocol in the EVM ecosystem (~$300M TVL, 200K+ users). Shape L2 integration roadmap and token-launch UX. Close integrations across DAOs, token launches, and L2 ecosystems.

Co-Founder & CEO

DexGuru

Sept 2020 โ€” May 2024

Owned growth roadmap end-to-end: shipped retention loops (watchlists, price alerts, portfolio tracking) and acquisition funnels driving 100K daily active users at peak. Scaled product to $1B+ cumulative trading volume across EVM chains. Ran lifecycle and referral-style partner integrations with 50+ DeFi protocols. Raised $6M across two rounds.

Head of Marketing & Product

bZx Protocol

Sept 2019 โ€” Oct 2020

Shaped product roadmap for a top-10 DeFi lending protocol by TVL. Deep exposure to market structure, order types, and liquidity dynamics. Led community engagement and crisis communications during exploit events.

Founder

Defiprime

Apr 2019 โ€” Present

Built one of the most respected DeFi media and discovery platforms. Grew Twitter audience to 55K+ followers. Maintained relationships with 500+ protocol founders and VCs.

Head of Marketing & Product

2Miners

Nov 2017 โ€” Sept 2019

Designed and executed data-driven acquisition strategies measuring CAC across channels and algorithms. Drove pool to top 5 global hashrate across multiple mining algorithms.

Education

Self-directed โ€” Founder path

Web3 Product, Growth, and Ecosystem

2017 โ€“ Present