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Alex O'byrne

Founder, speaker, writer, experimenter. Ecomm, LLMs, Trading, Fintech.

Miami Beach, Florida

Work Experience

  • Founder and Apostrophe Advocate

    2025

    Advocating for inclusivity in digital spaces to support all names, apostrophes included.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2019

    Investing in ecommerce tech. Advising on growth, people, tech and leadership.

2009 - 2024

  • Co-founder and Managing Director

    2009 - 2024

    Making Shopify websites for the world's leading brands.

2021 - 2021

  • Anti-crypto writer & tech critic

    2021 - 2021

    Writing about crypto for normal folks in tech. Poisoning my brain with web3 so you don’t have to.

2015 - 2019

  • Founder & Editor

    2015 - 2019

    Job board for hot fintech jobs

  • Founder

    2010 - 2012

    Built and ran a photography studio used by Vogue, New Look, Channel 4, AllSaints, T4, Dazed

  • Senior Specialist

    2006 - 2009

    Investment banking tech, main achievement was rebuilding UK wealth management tech platform