Benedict W. H. Dixon

About

I started out as an engineer, building payment systems at JPMorgan, then on the R&D team for Amex's referral campaigns. That's where I first got to see beyond the terminal. We went into those design, user interview and research centres, behind the double glass, and got some exposure to the positioning and the marketing side as well. After that came a hedge fund, fintech, and founding my own startups.

Then I made a very conscious and intentional move from writing code to running companies and teams. When AI tooling arrived, I went back to building. Three of us built kash's whole product. Mine was the fat middle, from the hooks the frontend calls down to indexing on-chain events.

I build end-to-end, full solutions, and I run and operate products and businesses completely end to end.

Career

• kash — Co-founder, COO & Interim CTO (May 2025 – Present). Three of us built kash's whole product. Mine was the fat middle, from the hooks the frontend calls down to indexing on-chain events.
• DD Ventures — Founding Partner (Apr 2025 – Present)
• Brdge — Head of Blockchain (Feb 2025 – Present)
• Voi Network — Chief Ecosystem Officer · L1 (2024–2025)
• Pound Token — Chief Technology Officer (Aug 2023 – Aug 2024)
• Nettle — Chief Product & Technology Officer, Co-Founder (May 2021 – Aug 2023)
• Icon Solutions — Senior Software Engineer · real-time payments (2021–2022)
• MAIA / Fulcrum — Fullstack Software Engineer · hedge fund (2019–2021)
• American Express — Fullstack Software Engineer · R&D, customer acquisition (2018–2019)
• JPMorgan Chase & Co — Software Engineer · patented B2B payments (2015–2018)
• University of Bath — BSc Computer Science

Writing

• AI Collapsed the Build, Not the Operation (Jun 2026)
• The Unit of Production Has Changed (Jun 2026)
• The Assistant That Knows You (Jun 2026)
• The Assistant That's Always On (Jun 2026)
• Building a Second Brain That Doesn't Die (May 2026)
• In Clawd We Trust: A Year of Claude Code (Feb 2026)
• Developing Your Product Plan (Aug 2026)
• Will the Dogs Eat the Dog Food? (Jul 2026)
• Testing Your Assumptions (Jul 2026)
• Identifying Your Key Assumptions (Jul 2026)
• Calculating CAC Honestly (Jun 2026)
• Mapping the Sales Process (Jun 2026)
• Calculating Customer LTV (Jun 2026)
• Drawing Your Product Brochure (Jun 2026)
• Setting Your Pricing Framework (Sep 2025)
• Designing Your Business Model (Aug 2025)
• Calculating TAM for Follow-On Markets (Aug 2025)
• Mapping the Customer Acquisition Process (Aug 2025)
• The Decision-Making Unit (Aug 2025)
• Charting Your Competitive Position (Aug 2025)
• Define Your Core (Aug 2025)
• Finding Your First 10 Customers (Aug 2025)
• Quantifying Your Value Proposition (Aug 2025)
• Why Your MVP Is Already Too Big (Aug 2025)
• Mapping Your Full Customer Journey (Jul 2025)
• Building Your Persona (Jul 2025)
• Why Every TAM Slide Is a Lie (Jul 2025)
• Building Your End User Profile (Jul 2025)
• The Beachhead Market (Jul 2025)
• Market Segmentation (Jul 2025)
• Prediction Markets (Jul 2025)
• Beyond Lean: The Complete Entrepreneurship Framework (Jul 2025)
• Tesserakt Protocol (Feb 2025)
• The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents (Feb 2025)
• Autonomous AI Agents (Dec 2024)
• The Democratic Myth of DAOs (Nov 2024)

All writing → · How I work with AI →

Speaking

• Zebu Live — Tokenomics Design & Strategy
• Algorand at Tate Modern — Tokenomics Design & Strategy

Open to keynotes and panels on AI, fintech, distributed systems, blockchain and the operator's lens on technical leadership.

Contact

I'm also a strategic, product and technology advisor to early-stage startups and founders. Always interested to compare notes with people doing the work.

Email: me@benedictdixon.com
Book a call: Find a time
LinkedIn: /in/benedict-dixon
Twitter / X: @bwhdx
GitHub: @bwhdx
Advisory: dd.ventures