Shivraj Goswami
Founder of Praxa, 21 y/o, building on first principles.
Who Am I?
I wrote my first line of code at eight. By 16, I was managing a global team and working with clients across development, growth, and marketing. I entered crypto in 2021, helping NFT and gaming projects grow their sales. Before YouTube Shorts, my long-form videos reached over half a million people worldwide.
I’ve contributed to several crypto projects and protocols, including XMTP as an early contributor. My XIPs have since been used by 100,000+ users and now power agents too. I’ve also built ventures of my own, most recently Finz, which I scaled to over $1.5M in volume.
But chasing numbers, revenue, and growth left me looking for a deeper sense of purpose. Stepping back to ask what I really wanted to build led me to found Praxa: a way to turn collective action into meaningful social impact, help others, and move causes forward.
Current
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Founder @praxa
A social platform to participate in real-world outcomes.
Praxa brings people together to support causes they care about, from fundraisers to social movements. Through funding, coordination, and participation, people turn individual contributions into collective action, helping internet-driven efforts create meaningful impact in the real world.
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 Chapters
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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A Quick Story
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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