Paul Diaz Ashot

I am a founder-operator. I have been selling since I was 12. First it was paintings, now it's ideas. I spent four years on the founding team of GMX, where I handled go-to-market and onboarded major partners. I spent four years running a venture consultancy practice alongside and after it, where I helped portfolio companies raise funding and pivot strategies to become profitable. My current obsession is deploying AI agents with the best model for each job, from Claude to GPT-5.5, to automate and scale real businesses such as Pawlymarket and Slashwork. Native English, fluent Russian, fluent Spanish; right to work in the UK, US, and EUUK indefinite leave to remain status holder + US/EU dual national..

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• Venture capital fund specialising in advising and investing in early stage DeFi/Fintech. Worked closely on GTM with several portfolio companies including Gammaswap and Codex.io. Influenced $4M+ in aggregate fundraising through advisory work and warm introductions.

• Three-person founding team. Top DeFi revenue generator during my tenure. Co-led institutional partnerships and capital formation; personally sourced $20M+ in cumulative capital deployments.
• Closed and co-closed strategic partnerships with ArbitrumArbitrum is an L2 for Ethereum that GMX utilised for lower transaction costs. Part of being an early adopter was negotiating for grants and trader rebates worth $10M+. Read the GMX Arbitrum incentive post., AvalancheThe Avalanche Rush deployment incentive was one of the biggest incentive packages secured in DeFi at the time. The $4M in trading rewards led to eight-figure increases in TVL within a few months. Read the Avalanche Rush announcement., Chainlink, and Frax, plus two other protocol integrations. Coordinated the Gambit → GMX rebrand The rebrand wasn't a marketing exercise; it was a chain migration from BSC (Gambit) to Arbitrum and Avalanche (GMX), with the partner network lined up to launch alongside. Gambit was initially successful on BSC, reaching nine-figure TVL and issuing GUSDT, a stablecoin backed by aggregate long/short position float and funding fees. The product was thoughtful, but market volatility broke the peg, so the migration demanded a technical rethink rather than a cosmetic rename. My role as de facto community lead was to move users into a new product on new chains without fracturing the community after losses in the first system. It worked: users who held through the migration saw 500%+ ROI, and the Telegram community largely stayed intact through the transition. and organised outreach to future partners.
• Built and led the institutional and community channels: 5,000+ Telegram members and direct relationships with eight-figure liquidity providers.

• Managed financial accounts and operational administration for a private art dealership specialising in Old Master Pictures; annual transaction volumes in the £500K–£2.5M+ range.

• Slashwork.xyz — fully live, free AI-deployed job-search engine for the startup and technical community, focused on fresh roles at tracked public-market companies. Built end-to-end with Claude Opus.
• Pawlymarket — fully fledged Polymarket data aggregator and trading terminal used to build advanced yield strategies. $50K ARR within two months of launch. pawlymarket.com.
• Vinted-to-Depop reselling agent — autonomous fashion-arbitrage system operating across Vinted and Depop.
• Intelligent booking systemA Barcelona dance school with 100+ weekly individual bookings moved onto an AI-coded management and analytics system built with Claude Code and Codex CLI. The agent tracks seasonality across evening vs afternoon classes, Salsa vs Bachata, and experience level, then suggests schedules from basic regression and heuristics. Estimated admin efficiency increased about 50%. — Codex CLI-assisted agentic scheduler for a small local business; takes class bookings and organises future classes based on predicted demand.

BSc Chemistry, University of Manchester, 2018.

Consultative selling to technical buyers · enterprise negotiation · founder-network leverage · community-led growth · technical product evangelism · venture capital · startup operations · risk management · market intelligence · financial modelling · ATS scraping · SQLite/FTS · Claude API · Claude Code · Codex CLI · GPT-5.5 · prompt engineering · agentic workflows · MCP · Python · JavaScript