Ethan Lam

Building tools for AI research. Interested in incentive design, network effects, and taste.

Building

• FiveW

  Focused social platform for AI research.

Projects

• zKnowledge Base

  Semantic search for research papers. Best Decentralized App, TreeHacks 2024.

• Reliablocks

  Trustworthiness model for Ethereum L2 blocks. Architecture Prize, DevCon Bangkok.

Writing

• What I learned from 150 customer interviews

  Coming soon

• Living in SF's oldest hacker house

  Coming soon

Thinking hard about what to build next.

Living at Mission Control, the oldest continuous hacker house in SF. Eleven people, one cat (Richard).

Into food, poker, running, and reading things that change how I think. Currently: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned.

Last updated March 2026