Shivraj Goswami
I'm a 21 year old self taught developer and founder of Praxa. Building from first principles.
Locked in.
Current
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Founder @praxa
The coordination layer for people on the internet.
Praxa creates markets around outcomes people can actually influence - fundraisers, social movements, petitions and more. People back an outcome they believe in with capital, find others who want the same result and are incentivized to coordinate and help make that outcome happen. Instead of just betting on the future, Praxa gives people a way to help create the future.
Previous
A few selected chapters from the past.
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Co-founder @Finz
Monetization tool for creators on X powered by tokenized tweets on Solana. The first launchpad built exclusively for tweetcoins that rewarded tweet authors. Scaled it to $1.5M volume & 2k+ users.
2025 — 2026
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Early contributor @XMTP
I contributed to the XMTP protocol by adding 3 major XIPs: Reply, Reactions, and Read-receipts content types. Integrated by several major apps & used by 100k+ users till date.
2023
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Other Chapter
Over the years, I've worked across several early-stage companies and built a number of ventures and experiments — including Konnektr, one of the earliest apps in the Lens Protocol and XMTP ecosystems; Kyte, an incentive distribution platform; and TrueHuman, an anti-Sybil layer for a post-AI internet. I also actively traded markets from 2024–2025.
2022 — 2025
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Who Am I?
I think I’ve known since my early teens that I wanted to build something of my own. It never really felt like a career choice or something I had to figure out - it just felt like me. Like this is what I want to spend my life doing.
And I don’t just want to build something big for the sake of building something big. I want to build something that actually matters - something that solves a real problem, has a real impact, and leaves the world a little better than it was before.
Even when I worked at early-stage companies, that was always part of the reason I joined. I wanted to work closely with the founders - not just do my job, but understand how they thought, how they made decisions, how they built the company, and what being a founder actually looked like from the inside.
At 18, during my Class 12 board exams, I was building a startup with a five-person team at the same time. I had no network or warm intros, but cold-emailed my way into a meeting with a major VC. The meeting ended up being just a few hours before one of my exams. I took the pitch, went for the exam, and kept building through the rest of the exam season.
I think that explains me better than any title really can. I’ve just always wanted to create something of my own, take it as far as I possibly can, and hopefully build something that leaves a real impact on the world.
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