Joe Lallouz

Partner & Co-Founder

2015 - Current

Ambush Capital is an angel fund in New York that helps entrepreneurs through the early stages of building a company.

Head of Coinbase Cloud / Senior Director

2021 - 2023

Coinbase Cloud is a web3 and crypto platform to help build with speed and efficiency. Whether it’s a crypto app or your own staking-as-a-service business, get started with the APIs and infrastructure that power Coinbase.

Founder & CEO

2018 - 2023

Bison Trails is the easiest way to run enterprise-grade infrastructure on multiple blockchains. We're Hiring! Bison Trails is the leading infrastructure provider and the most trusted brand in the blockchain infrastructure space. Started by serial entrepreneurs and long-time technical co-founders Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw, with a world-class technical team, Bison Trails is the easiest way to run infrastructure on multiple blockchains. Bison Trails offers the premier multi-cloud, geographically distributed platform with enterprise-grade security, orchestration, redundancy, and scaling to run highly efficient block producing nodes. Bison Trails’ mission is to help the entire blockchain ecosystem flourish by providing robust infrastructure for the pioneers of tomorrow. Whether you are an enterprise, a professional investor or an entrepreneur you can launch your own validating nodes and participate in blockchain networks with only a few clicks.

Technical Steering Comittee

2019 - 2022

Elected member of the technical advisor body for the Libra project.

Board Member

2019 - 2021

I was the Bison Trails board representative on the Diem Association Council, of which Bison Trails is a founding member.

Senior Director, Product Management

2017 - 2017

Joe is the Head of the Pattern business and leads the Maker Innovation group at Etsy. He manages business strategy, product, marketing, and development of new products to help creative entrepreneurs scale their operations and grow their businesses. The Maker Innovation group launched Pattern, a new business that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce storefronts. With an easy-setup experience, modern and stylish themes, and co-branded checkout, sellers can merchandise and manage their brand identity and presence on the internet. Prior to Pattern, Joe, lead the team building Fund on Etsy, a new crowdfunding pilot program intended to help designers raise funds to build new products or grow their businesses.

Director of Product Management

2015 - 2017

Group Product Manager

2014 - 2015

Co-Founder

2012 - 2015

Joe leads the technical, product, and strategy teams at Grand St. As a full-stack mobile and web engineer he has a keen eye for product, design, and user experience. With focus on culture, growth and architecture he assembles great teams and builds beautiful products. As part of the executive team, he spends time working on company and product strategy, growth, and marketing. Joe also runs Grand St.'s quantitative growth tactics and data analysis, both bringing up overall engagement and conversions to create a highly engaged community. Grand St. is a curated marketplace for creative technology. We hand pick, test, and highlight well-designed, delightful hardware from independent producers, featuring one new selection every other day. With stunning pictures and product stories created in-house by our discerning, device-obsessed team, we help you experience new technology that improves your life. All products purchased on Grand St. are shipped from our own warehouse, so you'll receive your order in just a few days.

Software Engineer - Mobile Applications

2010 - 2012

Worked with Hashable on producing high quality & engaging user experiences that facilitated, managed and recorded online interactions.

Co-Founder

2009 - 2011

Top 5 MCs is a social role playing game for Facebook and Mobile platforms. The first ever real-time battle system for a social media platform & extensive game balancing algorithms.

Application Engineer

2008 - 2010

Ice Hockey Instructor

2002 - 2002

On-ice instruction for the age groups 6 - 12 years. If you've made it this far into my profile, congrats, this was my favorite job.