kevin owocki
[boulder, co] – now nyc
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intro’d to Kevin when Andrew tweeted his ignite talk:“Suicide survivor and statistics” at Ignite Boulder 26
my brother’s suicide was the white space that surrounded me in every room
in developed world.. suicide is now leading cause of death in of young people and no one’s talking about it.. every 10 min in america
couldn’t reach my brother because of his escapism.. should we have a convo about escapism
hari rat park law et al
there’s got to be a way that people… can live in society
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kevin (o) on ai
there’s a nother way.
kevin (o) on quadratic funding
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suicide – [how our experimentation was colored when we started]
ie: a be you book starts with this:
Our county is 6th in the nation in suicide rate. Every 9 days someone takes their life. Globally, the current rate is one every 40 seconds. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 11-24 year olds.
The measure we are currently using toward success, the actions we are currently using to fix problems, even to determine which problems are problems, aren’t boding us well.
et al
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on www ness:
a more regenerative web is not only possible, it is inevitable 🌱
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1579804231678431232
a nother way (for 8bn people to live)
only inevitable if we want legit free people (ie: org’s around legit needs)
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via kevin tweet [https://x.com/owocki/status/1750236219718385815?s=20]:
links to https://coordinationmechanisms.gitcoin.co/
It’s all coordination & it always has been. Now that we can program our values into our money, that will deepen our ability to coordinate at webscale. So what do we build with it? Explore what’s possible in the coordination mechanism design space below.
Built with <3 by Griff Green, Dr. Suga, Carl, LareCristina, Owocki, and Octavian.
mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh
need a legit diff kind of mech
ie: there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p
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find/follow Kevin:
updated from x bio (2026):
cosmo localist, DAO cartographer, EVM whisperer, shitpost artist + chaos magician @ @allo_capital/@gitcoin. i spin bits for fun/profit watchout 4 my megabyte NYC
his site: the world as perpetual beta –
from his about page:
I am a software engineer by profession. I’ve been experimenting with web projects since 1999..
I worked for StepOut for five years, but nowadays I am building Simple Energy in Boulder, CO.
updated info on kevin from his site (2026):
Kevin Owocki is a NYC-based community organizer, computer scientist, co-founder of Gitcoin, Allo Capital, and Greenpill.network. After completing his BS in Computer Science, Kevin spent 10 years in the world of web2 startups, working in engineering leadership serving as a CTO and founder for open source software and web startups.
from https://greenpill.network/ site.. read greenpilled and pathways to regen
Kevin co-founded Gitcoin in 2017 where his vision of a positive-sum ecosystem supported by public goods helped raise and distribute over $69 million to projects in the ecosystem. Gitcoin’s mission is to “Fund What Matters”, and it has helped to catalyze a movement around the funding of social causes, infrastructure, and other frontier projects.
Since 2017, Gitcoin has grown into a pillar of the open source ecosystem, upon which hundreds of projects rely on for financial support + for marketing. In 2021, Gitcoin DAO launched and Gitcoin Grants relaunched as a suite of modular + decentralized protocols. In 2025, Owocki launched Allo.Capital – a bold new extension of Gitcoin’s mission. Allo.Capital is a hybrid research org, software studio, and venture fund. We are catalyzing a network of hackers, thinkers, and doers, to help fund what matters in the 21st century.
As of 2025, 1000s of projects are using Gitcoin’s products to grow their ecosystem with Gitcoin Grants , Allo Capital, or Gitcoin Passport.
Kevin’s work has been featured in a TED Talk, Bankless, The Defiant, Yahoo Finance, Vitalik Buterin’s Blog, TechCrunch, Coindesk, CNN, SEDaily, Inc Magazine, The New York Times, BoingBoing, WIRED, Forbes (x2), Blaser Mills, Blockworks, and TechDigest.
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be you. 