Jesper Noehr
I’m a repeat founder. I started Bitbucket and Upvest, and have held engineering and product leadership roles at Arweave, Kraken, NOCAP Sports and Opera Software. Today I run Mirador.
I believe luck is mostly opportunity meeting preparation, and most of what I’ve built has come from following the openings I was ready for. My customers are most often developers, because I am one, and I build to fix the kind of problems I’ve run into personally, and while running a business.
Danish by birth, I’ve lived and worked all around the world - now in Marbella.
When not screen-bound: sailing, cycling, skiing, and golf. A Founders Pledge member since 2018, and a supporter of MAPS and Usona. Spiritually inclined, with an outlook closest to that of Alan Watts.
I’m on the economic left, but allergic to its certainties.
A society is measured by its floor rather than its ceiling - a public floor strong enough that the private options sit on top of it as a choice, not an escape from something broken. I don't think we fully earn where we end up, so that floor is justice rather than charity; and the market economy that funds it is a tool I back on results, not an ideology.
I think in systems and incentives: most behavior, and most institutional failure, is structural rather than personal, so I’d rather fix the incentive than blame the individual. I read inequality as mostly economic at root, which leaves me more interested in what people share than in how they’re sorted into groups.
I’m for free expression, for drug policy built on treatment over punishment, for privacy against both state and corporate surveillance, and for prying open the financial instruments now reserved for the wealthy. Longer term, I don't think shareholder capitalism is sustainable in its current form - I'd rather see ownership broadened, through worker co-ops and the like, than concentrated. Climate change is the bill coming due, and it will fall hardest on the people least responsible.
I’ve done well; I think that obliges rather than entitles, and I give accordingly. Mostly, I distrust single-cause explanations and people too sure they’re right - my own side included.