Travis Curl

Founded and launched a consumer mobile crypto wallet, built to Brazil's incoming Central Bank VASP standards.

• Built, shipped, and sold the wallet: one year from start to Google Play launch in March 2026, acquired July 2026.
• Launched with one-click UX, 24/7 DEX trading, and instant fiat on and off ramps.
• Shipped a live in-app AI assistant for crypto market, project, and investment questions.
• Designed autonomous AI agents for portfolio optimization and trading, built for the October 2026 regulatory go-live.
• Architected to all seven incoming Brazil VASP requirement areas, holding compliance over growth before October 2026.
• Completed two independent pre-launch reviews: Brazil Central Bank stack and API testing, and Google Play security.
• Self-funded the build with $150K; led a 10-person senior team across engineering, product, design, finance, and legal.
• Drove AI-assisted development across architecture, design, and testing.

Led product strategy for institutional custody and tokenization platforms serving banks, custodians, and hedge funds.

• Grew Standard Custody and OTTO revenue 20% quarter over quarter across 2023, via a full UX redesign of both using A/B and AI-assisted testing.
• Shipped staking and yield on assets under custody, speeding transactions and lifting engagement.
• Owned product strategy for Standard Custody, acquired by Ripple in June 2024, and the OTTO investment platform.
• Platforms held about $400M under custody plus about $600M through OTTO.
• Onboarded about 3,000 clients and institutions; each platform generated about $3M in annual product revenue.
• Inherited most of the team and hired 4 (2 engineers, 2 designers) to reach a 7-person pod; ran a $2M budget.

Took a blockchain digital-ownership marketplace to public launch.

• Reached 10 creators averaging 10 mints each at peak.
• Led a 4-person product pod spanning engineering, project management, and design at a 10-person startup.

Owned product for Connected Commerce across two product lines.

• More than doubled monthly customer activations, from under 50,000 to about 100,000 at peak, across two lines.
• Rebuilt the 5-step purchase flow into one-click selection, added save-for-later, and cut inter-step waits.
• Ran user testing and experimentation to find drop-off.
• Shipped pre-set cross-sell bundles on Target.com; grew activation and add-on revenue about 30% year over year.
• Cut feature delivery from a 3-to-4-week average to a 2-to-3-week maximum through Agile process changes.
• Hired and led a 6-person pod of 2 PMs, 2 engineers, 2 designers in the 100-person Connected Commerce division.

Co-founded a 14-person IoT company on $250K of founder capital.

• Sold 100,000 GPS devices to about 100,000 users, about $3M in revenue.
• Served on the executive team; delivered quarterly board updates; led a 6-person hardware and software team.
• Halted product development on competitive evidence, as Tile outscaled the category.

Owned product for WarnerBros.com and Warner Bros Games: release content, promotions, and watch/buy engagement.

• Platform engagement ranged from about 30M to 200M monthly users across major movie and game releases.

Led UX strategy and design for Build, Price & Buy on Mitsubishicars.com across web and mobile (US).

• Stakeholders reported about a 25% quarter-over-quarter lift in online sales following launch.