I am the founder of Mass & Momentum. We build AI-native tools for ownership, governance, capital, and coordination.
In 1994, apartheid fell. My family left South Africa for the UK. I learned early that institutions are agreements, and agreements can be rewritten.
In 2007, I won Intel ISEF. MIT Lincoln Laboratory named minor planet 23122 Lorgat after me. MIT followed.
In 2009, I dropped out of MIT with Patrick and John Collison to help build /dev/finance, which later became Stripe.
I then spent a decade at MIT and the Perimeter Institute studying arithmetic geometry, factorization algebras, and the geometry of quantum field theory. Not because it was useful, but because it was beautiful.
The next phase of technological progress is autonomous coordination: software that can drive real operations end to end. Mass brings that world into existence. Momentum builds its first native institutions.