Sumner Murphy

Product Lead & Ops (Crypto + AI)

New York, New York, United States

About

Product leader with 15+ years building teams and products across crypto and AI. Built and scaled products from scratch, including a multi-chain Web3 growth platform (30+ chains; EVM and Solana), a treasury analytics platform (150+ treasuries; $260m+ in assets; $1.8bn in tx activity), and AI computer vision tools (~98% accuracy on test data). Has led products from inception through acquisition, and scaled others in production. Works best in close partnership with engineering and design. Work authorization: US (citizen), EU (citizen) and Mercosur (citizen)

Experience

  • Product Lead at TrueTribe
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    TrueTribe is a smart Airdrop platform that allows projects to run continual token campaigns to grow their user base and keep their community engaged. TrueTribe works across 30+ chains (over 1 billion wallets) to make tokens a primary growth engine for Web3 teams. • Owned the roadmap; shipped v1 of the core platform and led subsequent releases. • Built audience targeting tools and workflows; achieved up to 31× higher retention than industry standard. • Enabled high-value user targeting and token distribution (direct airdrops + claimables) across 30+ mainnets (EVM + Solana).

  • Co-Founder & CEO (Acquired) at PICANTE
    Feb 2022 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Picante is a crypto-first portfolio and treasury management platform. Picante helped Web3 companies, DAOs and investors manage their crypto data. • Owned product strategy, roadmap, and GTM from inception through acquisition. • Monitored 150+ treasuries, $260m+ in assets, and $1.8bn in transaction activity.

  • Product Lead & COO at TUK
    Jan 2020 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    TUK is a quick commerce company that provides on-demand services to its users including: transport, food delivery and package delivery. • Expanded operations in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket. • Managed driver recruitment, training, schedules and incentive program for over 4,000 contractors. • Led product development on consumer app, driver app, merchant app and internal tools. • Improved pickup and delivery times by 63% by shipping a driver incentives program, and in-app workflow improvements. • Worked on TUK from ideation to breakeven.

  • Advisor at DT42
    Mar 2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    DT42 is a technology company focusing on A.I & deep learning. We squeeze A.I. into small devices to reduce loading of the cloud. We provides optimization for deep learning models to make them lighter and smaller. The models can now be computed on local devices to bring out the best performance of machine vision.

  • Partner (Acquired) at Zeroth.ai
    Aug 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Zeroth.ai was an early-stage funding program for artificial intelligence and machine learning companies across Asia. • Responsible for expansion into Japan and India. • Ran operations across Hong Kong, India and Japan. • Part of investment committee that invested into over 65 companies.