Nobody dreams of becoming a recruiter.The good ones get curious.

I am no longer recruiting. Thanks to everyone who supported me during that era.

Cya next week to relaunch my builder arc.
- alec gutman (@Chipagosfinest) July 11, 2025

The job

Curiosity beats the script.

Good recruiters do the homework. They understand the company, the role, and the person well enough to know when an introduction makes sense. More than 100 technical hires taught me how teams come together and eventually led me to build interested.fyi.

Some of the names I crossed paths with along the way

Ethereal Ventures

1kx

Optimism

Flashbots

SAFE

EigenLayer

Astria

Zapper

Risc Zero

Berachain

Celestia

Socket

Fluent

Aragon

Aztec

PoolTogether

Karma3

Monaverse

Upshot

Utopia Labs

Intuition

Otoco

Dora

Treasure

POKT

Para

Lit

Crossmint

After recruiting

What came next.

Peeple Work paid the bills while I learned to build. A year after I stopped recruiting, this was the update.

~1 year ago I stopped recruiting and went all in on building.

I started slow. The gap between what I wanted to build and what I could actually ship was huge.

So I optimized for volume.
- alec gutman (@Chipagosfinest) July 14, 2026