In 1994, apartheid fell. My family left South Africa and I learned early: institutions are just agreements—and agreements can be rewritten.
At sixteen, MIT Lincoln Lab named minor planet 23122 Lorgat after me.
At nineteen, I dropped out of MIT with the Collison brothers and built Stripe.
Stripe revealed the real problem: not payments, but the friction of global compliance. I spent a decade on the mathematics and physics of how local structures compose into global ones, at MIT and the Perimeter Institute studying arithmetic geometry, factorization algebras, and the geometry of quantum field theory. Not because it was useful—because it was beautiful.
Now I'm deploying it at Mass and Momentum. We crossed $1B in asset volume in 2025.