Marketing · GTM · BD · Growth · 8+ Years

Samuel Baurle

Building positioning, narrative, and distribution for technical products — from crypto and DeFi to stablecoins, infrastructure, and AI.

Ikigai — reason for being

What I Love What the World Needs What I'm Good At What I'm Paid For IKIGAI Web3 Growth

Love

Crypto ecosystems, narrative craft, BD, category creation

World Needs

Clarity in complex protocols, trust at institutional scale

Good At

GTM, content systems, partnerships, AI-enabled workflows

Paid For

Ecosystem growth, fundraising, TVL, follower scale, adoption

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X/Twitter Followers Grown
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TVL Supported at Peak
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Ecosystem Projects Onboarded
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Years in Web3 Marketing
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Co-marketing Partners
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Core Competencies

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Commercial Strategy

Go-to-market, product positioning, category creation, launch strategy from 0 → 1.

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Business Development

Strategic partnerships, ecosystem growth, fundraising support, investor and fund relations.

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Marketing & Communications

Storytelling, thought leadership, content strategy, SEO/GEO, technical explainers, press.

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Growth

Community strategy, KOL partnerships, organic acquisition, lifecycle marketing, onboarding funnels.

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Operations

AI-enabled workflows, CRM systems, knowledge management, cross-functional execution.

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Experience

ArbCap Jun 2026 – Present

Head of Business Development · Remote

  • Defined company positioning, brand voice, and GTM strategy across institutional, crypto-native, and fintech audiences.
  • Built the marketing narrative around a new category of onchain financial products, translating complex financial and technical concepts into commercially relevant messaging.
  • Developed investor, partner, and customer-facing content across decks, website, editorial, social, research, and product communications.
  • Built content and distribution strategy across X, LinkedIn, editorial, SEO/GEO, partnerships, and direct outreach.
  • Developed marketing infrastructure supporting fundraising, partnerships, CRM, investor research, and outbound campaigns.
  • Built AI-enabled workflows for research, content development, CRM management, knowledge management, and commercial intelligence.
  • Developed relationships across investors, funds, family offices, liquidity providers, and infrastructure providers to support distribution and market adoption.
  • Led messaging and GTM around ArbCap's Sterling stablecoin products and broader thesis around non-dollar digital assets and tokenized financial infrastructure.
Silo Finance Jan 2026 – May 2026

Head of Marketing · Remote

  • Owned full GTM including key announcement timelines and narrative for Silo v3.
  • Established a new DeFi Lending category: safer lending through protection from bad debt.
  • Drove TVL growth post-launch in adverse conditions via narrative-led campaigns and partner activation.
  • Secured press coverage (The Block, The Defiant) and positioned Silo vs Aave, Morpho, Euler.
  • Built and executed multi-phase launch across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, and XDC.
  • Produced canonical technical content (dual liquidation, mIRM) for adoption and SEO/GEO dominance.
SOON Dec 2024 – Dec 2025

Head of Community & Marketing Lead · Remote

  • Scaled X/Twitter from 30,000 → 200,000+ followers via viral campaigns and coordinated KOL amplification.
  • Grew the ecosystem from ~10 to 50+ active projects (~5× growth) by streamlining inbound and onboarding.
  • Increased inbound handling efficiency 150%, materially reducing time-to-onboard for new projects.
  • Personally onboarded 5+ founder-led protocols; delivered co-marketing support to 70+ partners.
  • Created SOON Spotlight, a recurring livestream series driving 50,000+ total views.
  • Planned and executed ecosystem events including a founders + investors dinner at ETHDenver (20+ projects).
  • Drove >$500K in investment through personal investor network and coordinated APAC regional campaigns.
Renzo Protocol Jan 2024 – Jul 2024

Marketing & Community Manager · Remote

  • 3rd hire (excluding founders); grew X from 17,000 → 100,000+ in under 3 months.
  • Supported protocol deposits expanding from ~$15M → $1B+ TVL in ~4 months (100,000% growth).
  • Produced technical and educational content on liquid restaking for tens of thousands of new users.
  • Partnered with BD to time announcements and integrations for maximum amplification and deposit inflow.
Abridged (Collab.Land) Aug 2022 – Mar 2023

Community Relations & Outreach · Remote

  • Coordinated seven concurrent partner launches with aligned messaging and joint ecosystem activation.
  • Managed cross-channel comms (Substack, Mirror, Medium, Discord) and analyzed engagement data.
  • Ran weekly Twitter Spaces to drive audience participation and support enterprise/DAO onboarding.
DAOhaus Apr 2021 – Aug 2022

Community & Content Management · Remote

  • Developed ecosystem content and strategic messaging enabling ~100 ETH in fundraising.
  • Produced research reports, governance explainers, and product narratives to drive DAO adoption.
  • Provided data-informed communication flows between governance stakeholders and protocol contributors.
Celsius Network Aug 2020 – Feb 2021

Data Analytics & Strategy Associate · Remote

  • Delivered weekly market analytics and institutional research for custody, lending, and stablecoin products.
  • Designed user surveys joining quantitative and qualitative data to guide product decisions.
  • Conducted competitive analysis and funnel evaluation to support growth strategy across the product suite.
  • Tools: Tableau, Python (pandas), SQL, Excel, survey design, dashboarding.
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Connect

Open to advisory, fractional, and full-time roles at the frontier of Web3 growth and ecosystem marketing.