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54th percentile
YC alum and Machine Zone co-founder now building Web3 gaming at Limit Break
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current co-founder and President of Limit Break, a Web3 gaming company founded in 2021.
- Machine Zone participated in the Y Combinator W08 cohort.
- Past co-founder and CTO of Machine Zone, a social mobile gaming company founded in 2008.
- Both Machine Zone and Limit Break were co-founded with partners, including Gabriel Leydon at Limit Break.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder and President of Limit Break, a Web3 gaming company founded in 2021.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past co-founder and CTO of Machine Zone, a social mobile gaming company founded in 2008.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Both Machine Zone and Limit Break were co-founded with partners, including Gabriel Leydon at Limit Break.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Machine Zone participated in the Y Combinator W08 cohort.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Combined venture funding across Machine Zone (~$263M) and Limit Break ($200M) totals approximately $463M raised.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the same room as late-stage crypto-native investors and YC Continuity insiders who can accelerate Limit Break's growth round. Roundtables and dinners where you can road-test your Web3 game economy thesis publicly will sharpen your founder-CTO narrative ahead of a Series B. You'd also benefit from smaller, restorative gatherings with other serial founders who are 10-15 years deep into company building.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA late-stage crypto-native investor dinner with Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Multicoin LPs to pressure-test Limit Break's Series B narrative and surface co-lead candidates for a disclosed unicorn-tier round
- introsA YC W08 alumni roundtable with YC Continuity partners to re-activate batch relationships, surface late-stage support options, and identify strategic co-investment partners in Web3 gaming
- introsA Paradigm portfolio founder dinner to deepen the Limit Break–Paradigm relationship and unlock warm introductions to DeFi protocol teams and NFT ecosystem partners who could integrate Limit Break's open tooling
- positioningA Web3 game economy roundtable with founder-CTOs from Axie Infinity, Immutable, and Sky Mavis to publicly road-test Limit Break's tokenomics thesis and generate quotable founder-CTO positioning ahead of press coverage
- hiringA Machine Zone alumni happy hour to recruit experienced F2P game engineers and game economists who already understand large-scale live-ops and can accelerate Limit Break's game economy design
- tacticalA Web3 game developer tools meetup spotlighting Limit Break's open-source GitHub tooling alongside contributors from Foundry and OpenZeppelin to signal technical depth and attract developer recruits from the broader Ethereum ecosystem
- wellbeingA small serial founder dinner for founders 10-15 years into back-to-back company building — including post-exit YC W08/W09 alumni — focused on sustainable performance, recovery rituals, and avoiding compounding fatigue