Alex Miller

Building things that build things.

CEO @ Stacks Labs — helping builders scale Bitcoin
chaotic.capital — backing founders

Stack Overflow, Yext, advisor, concert producer


about

I'm a hands-on operator who's partnered with visionary product founders to build and scale their companies. I get into the details — running systems, closing deals, building processes — then step back to help each team see how they fit into the whole.

I'm currently CEO at Stacks Labs. I got into crypto because I believe in free markets and global economic access, and joined Stacks because they took the principled route — the only SEC-qualified token offering.

Through chaotic.capital, I invest in and advise early-stage founders building for complexity — helping them see around corners by navigating the operational challenges that aren't obvious until you've seen them before.

I've spent most of my career on enabling technologies, including 8 years at Stack Overflow — where I partnered with Joel Spolsky to run operations and launch the enterprise business from $0 to $10M+, teach companies how to build developer communities of their own.

Before tech, I produced concerts, where execution was everything. That's where I learned that getting my hands dirty is what lets me understand each function well enough to get the best out of a team.

investing

Through chaotic.capital, backing founders building for complexity. Select investments:

Valar Atomics · SFCompute · Customer.io · Trello · Squads · Chroma

side projects

An entirely locally-controlled sauna using ESPHome. No cloud, full control.

stacks-monitoring blockchain

Observability infrastructure for Stacks blockchain nodes — dashboards, metrics, and log processing.

Tracks recurring statement credits in Google Sheets using Tiller.

More at GitHub

other random stuff

Testifying before Congress

Spoke to the House Agriculture & Financial Services committees about building on Bitcoin and the need for regulatory clarity for builders.

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