I'm an engineer and founder with a background in distributed systems and computer security.
- Dropbox — Designed and implemented the LAN Sync peer-to-peer protocol as an early engineer.
- Teleport — Founded a decentralized ridesharing company built around an open network.
- mjam — Co-founded the Austrian food delivery company, later acquired by Delivery Hero.
- Deepsec - Started and sold a computer-security conference.
- Metalab & hackerspaces.org — Founded Vienna's Metalab and the hackerspaces.org community.
- Quantum cryptography — Co-authored Secure Quantum Key Growing without Privacy Amplification (2004) with Hannes R. Böhm, Markus Aspelmeyer, Časlav Brukner, and Anton Zeilinger.
- Programming languages, runtimes, AI agents, and human agency
- Distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, security, and cryptography
- Collective intelligence, social coordination, and self-organizing systems
- Network economics, incentives, and game theory
- Information theory and the limits of intelligence and coordination
I write Networks and Value, exploring the connections between technology, economics, and coordination.
Follow me on @paulbohm.