Michael Shlayen

Connecting Web3, Crypto, Blockchain, AI Ecosystems - Recruitment | Executive Search | Talent & Jobs | VC | Funding | Marketing | Advisory | Real Estate | Bitcoin | Ethereum | DeFi

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🚀 About Me

With over two decades in recruitment, executive search, marketing, and consulting, I help founders, funds, and teams scale globally.

In 2016, I discovered Bitcoin and blockchain and immediately recognized their potential to reshape finance, ownership, and work itself. Since then, I’ve been deeply involved in building the crypto talent ecosystem - connecting innovators with builders, investors, and visionaries shaping the future of money, infrastructure, and decentralized technology.

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🔹 Blockchain Headhunter — blockchainheadhunter.com

Founded in 2017 as one of the first specialized crypto & Web3 recruitment agencies, we’ve completed 340+ placements across DeFi, Infra, Layer-1s, Layer-2s, Gaming, AI, and Stablecoin projects, from startups to unicorns.
Our 300,000+ community of crypto professionals gives us unmatched reach into developers, founders, investors, and executives across the ecosystem.

Roles we place:
🧠 Engineering (Solidity, Rust, Cosmos, zk, smart contracts, protocol, infra)
📈 Marketing, Growth, Community, Tokenomics, Product
⚖️ Legal, Finance, Operations
🎯 Executive & C-suite (CEO, COO, CTO, CMO, CFO, Head of Engineering, Head of Product)

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🔹 Crypto Funding — cryptofunding.vc

We connect Web3 startups, investors, and venture funds, helping early-stage teams raise capital and expand through our global founder and VC network.
We’ve facilitated multi-million-dollar rounds and bring insider visibility into funding trends, token launches, and strategic partnerships.

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🔹 Crypto Real Estate — cryptorealestate.cc

The largest platform for buying and selling real estate with crypto, featuring 1,500+ listings globally. Explore opportunities, list your property, or diversify your portfolio using digital assets.

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🔹 CryptoCareer.cc — cryptocareer.cc

Helping professionals transition, grow, and advance their careers in Web3 through expert coaching & insights

Founder & CEO

🔹 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 - https://blockchainheadhunter.com/

I founded one of the first recruitment agencies in the space at that time in 2017, which remains among the leading talent providers in crypto & web3 ever since.

During these years we have completed hundreds of recruitment assignments for some of the top companies and startups in the industry. We have also built the largest online talent community in crypto with 150k followers across various social platforms. which provides us with a unique insight and access to top professionals, companies and stakeholders in web3, allowing us to make meaningful connections.

If you are exploring jobs or hiring in crypto, web3, blockchain, defi, nft you are welcome to connect here or via Telegram @blockchainheadhunter. 

You can also explore, apply for all open positions as well as join our communities across the web here - https://bit.ly/3JNu65s.

Positions we are placing - Software engineers, developers, architects, devops (ethereum, solidity, smart contracts substrate, rust, polkadot, cosmos etc); Marketing, community, copywriting, social media, content managers; Tokenomics; Product; Legal; Finance; Operations; C-suite, CEO, COO, CMO, CTO etc

Alexy Joven

Founder @ Modjo | Growth Collective | Follow for posts on growth, AI and tech.

I've spent the last decade building growth systems for B2B & B2C companies - from zero to millions in revenue and fundraise.

My own companies and my clients' companies.

Led 50+ growth projects across the full spectrum: go-to-market strategy, content, community, events, analytics. Managed teams of 20+ people. This range taught me to see the whole system, not just isolated tactics.

The pattern I kept seeing: companies had great tech but couldn't translate it into momentum. 
The gap wasn't strategy or execution alone - it was the integration between them.

So I built systems that bridge that gap:
→ Product-led growth mechanics that make complex tech spread virally
→ Growth systems that attract customers and scale revenue systematically
→ Market positioning that turns technical innovation into adoption

Track record: 
→ Reveel's Pay(ID) hit $26M deposits & $200M transaction volume in 60 days with $30k spend.
→ Helped Elixir Games raise $14M (250% over target) while cutting marketing spend 65%.
→ Built my own electronic music festival (ig @greenin.be) to 4,000 people in one year, from my garden, at 22. $1M+ ARR. 
→ Helped Brussels' most prestigious venue - jeuxdhiver.be - acquire 80,000 paying customers in 4 months.

Now I run Modjo - a growth collective that packages this approach for B2B and prosumer tech companies. 

We provide strategy, specialist execution teams, and growth systems — working as one engine. 
70+ tech companies helped across entertainment, blockchain, AI, and fintech.


Technical dives: https://x.com/SenorAlex__
Work with us: https://www.modjo.me

Co-Founder & Marketing

Web3 & Web2 Growth Marketing Collective
Strategy | Operations | Branding
Dive into my bio for my Web3 journey.
Explore our website for our success stories!

"I replaced my $400K marketing team in 2 hours"

I want to send a message to everyone who believed that.

You got played.

Same for: 
"RIP Marketing Agencies" 
"Claude got me 150 meetings in 1 week" 
"BYE-BYE social media managers"

I build these systems for real clients, with real revenue on the line.

The intersection of:
→ Growth strategy
→ Knowledge graph architecture 
→ Logic enforcement and rules 
→ Context window management 
→ API pattern recognition 
→ Client-specific adaptation at scale

Is weeks of not sleeping before you can call yourself competent.

AI doesn't compress skill. 
It compresses execution time. 
But only if you know what you're executing toward.

Give Claude Code to someone who doesn't know growth? 
They'll automate chaos.

They don't understand what content is supposed to do.
They never built a system that actually scaled revenue.

They're not the future of marketing. 

They're the loudest people in the room.
Flag them. Save your time.

Founder @ Modjo | Growth Collective scaling B2B + Prosumer companies revenue | 70+ companies

Today I'm 31.

I wake up every morning with a smile on my face.

At 22 I grew my first company: 4k ppl music festivals. 
I didn't know anything. It worked anyway.

Then I realized I'm good at systems + taste. 
Works wonders for a growth operator.

Bootstrapped a growth agency to $2M+ rev in 18 months.
Today: 70+ companies. $30M+ generated. 

A collective I still can't fully define. 

Modjo — helps B2B and prosumer tech companies scale revenue.
Strategy + specialist + AI tools + growth systems that tell them what to do.

System gets smarter by itself.
AI, biotech, fintech, infra.

How I operate: 
→ 20-30 inbounds a month. Mostly say no. 
→ Filter: vibe, tech, then money. 
→ Day 1: call. Day 3: yes or no. Day 5: live. Hesitation is a filter. 
→ Outcome-based.

I don't read emails. 
12-tag AI classifies 100+ a day. Routes everything. 
Telegram alerts me only on what matters.

Every call transcribed and auto-fed into CRM. 

Calendar managed by AI. 
Content: weekend blocks. Let creativity lead.

My stack: 
Brain + Orchestration → Claude Code Anthropic + Cursor 
Writing → Claude App 
Outreach → Instantly.ai + HeyReach.io 
Inbound → Humanic AI.ai + Substack 
Media → Maxfusion AI + Riverside 
CRM → Attio + Popl 
Intelligence → Neo4j + Zep AI (YC W24) + Voyage AI by MongoDB 
Calls → Granola + Cal.com, Inc. 
Browser → Arc: The Browser Company 
Automation → n8n 
Server → Hostinger VPS 
Repo → GitHub 
Influencers → Stormy + vidIQ + own APIs systems
Research → Manus AI + Perplexity 
Ads → LinkedIn + Meta 
Comms → Slack + Telegram Messenger + Notion 
Finance → Stripe + Stripe Atlas 
Analytics → PostHog + Crunchbase + RB2B + Taplio + Trigify.io + Customer.io + Nyne.ai
Design → Figma + Framer 
Voice → Wispr Flow

Routines: 
→ Morning: sun, cold shower, water, walk. 
→ Evening: gym/run, sauna. 
→ Free time: red wine with friends or psychology.

What I invest in: 
Content. Events. Relationships.

The bet: 
What I do for clients today — AI will do in two years. 
So I stay ahead of the curve. 
Figure it out along the way.
Build trust.
Build data.
Build infra. 

The best loop I know: 
Write → crystallize thinking → post → world knows what I do → feedback sharpens me → better operator → better content → better clients.

Success for me:
Working on whatever I want, for as long as I want, wherever I want, with who I want.

And there's absolutely nothing that beats a cappuccino + pain au chocolat. 
On a sunny Parisian terrace, hungover on a Saturday morning.

Nothing.

Got named in the 30 Global Founders to Watch.

Honestly, the list of people I get to work with is wilder than any award.

Real estate going on-chain.
Natural resources in Africa expanding B2B.
The best AI creative tools in SaaS.
The financial systems of tomorrow. 
Founders who've exited $400M+ building again. 
Researchers who spent a decade on biotech.

People call us for one reason.
"Help us create the world map — the storytelling, the data layer, the snowball effect."

So we've built the system to serve them. 
An intelligence system that compounds: "Modjo Brain"
S-tier humans, fully autonomous AI, the best tools on the market. 
All working in harmony.

It gets smarter with every client, every campaign, every data point.

That's why retention is 100%. 
That's why clients throw six figures at us. 
That's why they ask for more of our time.

Thank you Aspire, Lightspeed, Deel, and Sophia Gazor.

This is the game we play and this is why we love the game.
And I'm starting to believe the game loves us too 😁

Our first autonomous, fully AI employee.

Ladies and gentlemen, please meet Olivia ⤵

She doesn't have a face yet. 
But as we all know, what really matters is the inside.

Olivia manages 3 clients and talks with thousands of influencers simultaneously. Her intelligence compounds over time, autonomously. 
And she charges for results. Not time. Not headcount.

She doesn't hand you a list of 30 influencers and call it a day. 
She sends you every creator that matches your ICP. 
You pick yes or no. 
From there, she tracks performance, doubles down on winners, and finds more like them.

You can talk to her. 
Ask her what's happening. 
She'll tell you.

Right now, Olivia is busy.
→ 321 creators being discovered. 
→ 1,128 emails sent. 
→ 39 replies being processed. 
→ 9 in active negotiation. 
→ 10 briefs sent. 
→ 3 contracted.

In a few days.
For 1 client.

We're not an agency. We're a collective. Modjo.
Where top notch talents, the systems, tools and AIs, work together.

This is what we mean when we say Modjo is different.

Olivia is just the beginning.
Howard, her little brother, is coming up soon.

Your paid ads CPM: $6-8. 

Ours: $0.43 - 93% cheaper - Here is how ⤵

In 2020, you targeted interests and behaviors manually. 
In 2025, you give the platform great content — and it does the rest.

Instagram and TikTok watch your video. 
Read the image. 
Understand what you're selling.

Then find the people who care.

So instead of running ads.
We run organic content accounts - UGC.

Your job: 
→ Follow influencers your ICP already follows 
→ Comment in the right spaces 
→ Use niche hashtags 
→ Create content the algorithm can read clearly

The platforms' AI job: 
→ Understand context better than your audience settings 
→ Find pockets you didn't know existed 
→ Distribute through Explore, Reels feed, and suggested accounts

The bottleneck is volume.
You can't post 190 videos/month with a 2-person team.

That's where we use Maxfusion AI.
150 vibe reels + 40 talking heads/month.

For pennies.

Human creativity sets the direction. 
AI handles the multiplication.

4 Instagram accounts. 
190 videos/month. 
Zero ad spend.

Your paid CPM: $6-8
Our organic CPM: $0.43

Your content is king.
The system is the emperor.

I asked my AI what we built together in 6 weeks. 

This was its answer.

😁

Platforms understand your content + therefore it shows it to the right people + barriers to create content gone = creatives will run the world.

We thought the goal was a better screen.

It was never the screen.

First came the electricity.
Then better tech. Then screens.

We kept optimizing the interface like it was the destination.

It wasn't.

The screen was just the best tool we had to access information.

Then came AI.

We thought the evolution was: man talks to screen smarter. 

But you're still doing the work that doesn't require you.
The non-creative. The retrieving. The searching.

That's not the final form.
The final form is no screen.

Your agent knows what you ate, how you slept, how many steps you took. 
It doesn't need you to open an app. 
It knows. It maps. It acts.

You stop retrieving information. 
You start living your craft.

The gym app doesn't need to exist when AI knows your body better than you do.

The artist doesn't need to think about distribution when AI handles everything except the brushstroke.

The scientist doesn't need to write the grant when AI handles everything except the discovery.

The evolution of man has always been about freedom.

84% of people have never used AI.

I know what you're thinking:

Bubble.

But the revolution hasn't happened yet.

6.8 billion people woke up this morning and didn't use it once.

The thing that's about to change how they work, earn, create, and build.

Think about 1994. Most people hadn't used the internet either.

Then broadband came. 
Then the iPhone. 
A billion people walked in overnight.

We're not at the end of something overhyped.
We're at the beginning of something most people haven't felt yet.

And 84% of the world is still waiting for you to serve them.

You probably heard it: ads are getting worse.

In fact, you don't decide what gets shown anymore.

Advertisers started noticing their campaigns dying in 2025.
And they had no idea why.

Meta, X, TikTok's AI gets smarter.
They now understand what you're selling.
Then find the people who care.

Doesn't matter how good your targeting is.
But if your creative isn't diverse enough, it never gets shown. 

We used to ask: who should see this ad? 
Now it's: which ad fits this person?

Which means the only lever left is creative volume. 

Genuinely different concepts - telling the same story:
→ Scientist spotting a pattern no one else saw
→ Scientist replacing a week of analysis with one prompt 
→ Scientist presenting findings built from one AI query

15–25 original creatives per campaign minimum.

Three years ago that was impossible for most teams. 
One ad cost $50 and took 30 days to produce.

Today it costs $1.50 and takes 90 seconds.

Platforms now reward volume. 
AI made volume free.

The brands that connect those two dots win.

SF & NYC have plenty of events. Few have taste.

Amy Quan is building the ones that do.

She's got the network, the systems, the rooms. 
She spent months building the right trust.

Now it's time to go parabolic. 
And she needs the people to capture it.

Brderless

If that's you, Amy is waiting for your DM.

750 saves. Zero ads.

Look at who saved it:

I taught content creation to my team and to an exited YC founder.

He had 600K impressions. 200 applicants. Zero customers.
Virality without substance is noise.

The metric that matters is saves + shares on DMs.

When someone saves or shares, they're telling the algorithm:
Show this to more people exactly like me. 

Those people are your buyers. 

Here's what I taught them:

↳ Before you write a single word — know exactly what you're saying. 
One idea. Not five. Not three. One.

↳ The $200-per-word rule. 
If every word cost you $200, what stays. 
Run that filter once. Your post cuts itself.

But the mechanics are the easy part.

The real thing that changes everything is the state you're in when you write.

Content is a psychological act.

When I write, I'm locked in. Confident. 
Like I'm about to go on stage and I know exactly what I'm going to say.

That energy transfers. People feel it. 
They can't explain why, but they feel it.

"We helped a lot of people with the best technology" hits different than "we have the best technology."

Same information. Different energy. 
Completely different effect.

The goal of content is to pull people into your world. 
The right people. With the right energy.

AI will replace every content formula by next year.
It won't replace the substance behind the words.
It won't replace the attitude behind the substance.

The gap between people who have something real to say and people who don't is only getting wider.

You either have something real to say, or you don't.
No template or automation fixes that.

Google just dropped Stitch

One prompt. Full design system.

↳ Describe your design: app screens, web UI, design systems
↳ Voice mode: sees what you're working on and critiques in real time
↳ Design systems auto-generated, typography, components   
↳ Parallel agents: work on many idea simultaneously                                              
↳ Instant prototypes from conversation

I mapped 28 types of creative content an agency produces.
Every single one now has an AI tool.

This one tool replaces 3-4 of them at once. 
Sharing the full system soon.

Everyone's GTM looks the same. 

If you want to win - there's only one thing you can do.

Be unique.
Build substance.
Trust your instinct.

That's the only thing that can't be replicated.

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