Carl Vogel
Carl Vogel is a Partner and Head of Research at 6th Man Ventures, an early-stage crypto venture capital firm investing in Web3 applications and infrastructure. He mainly leads infrastructure and DeFi investments and supports companies in the areas of product strategy, partnerships and token design. Prior to joining 6MV, Carl was a Senior Product Manager at Paxos where he led the firm's DeFi, tokenization, and wallet technologies. Before that, he served as a Product Manager at Google, working Google Assistant and Nest to build the future of smart home technology.
Carl Vogel Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Partner and Head of Research
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Senior Product Manager
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Product Manager
Academic History
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Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
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M.Engg., Acoustics
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B.S., Acoustical Engineering and Music
EXPERTISE
He has experience evaluating emerging technologies, creating technology investment theses, and devising product strategy and roadmaps.
He has worked on exciting technologies, including speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and advanced acoustic devices, with Google and General Dynamics Electric Boat.
EARLY CAREER
As a Senior Product Manager at Paxos, Carl was responsible for leading the firm's development of DeFi products.
He also served as a Product Manager at Google where he was responsible for overseeing product features for Google Voice and Google Dialer.
He also spent almost 6 years at General Dynamics Electric Board most recently as Strategic Analyst where he coordinated enterprise-wide innovation assessment to evaluate innovation processes and efficiency.
He was also an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the University of Hartford.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Carl has been featured or quoted in Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and TechCrunch.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.