About Axorum
Making money and doing good are not mutually exclusive.
Too often, I've seen companies make trade-offs between doing good and making money. I don't believe that those things are mutually exclusive, and Axorum is founded on the belief that we can enable agentic commerce safely while also contributing positively to society.
Why found a public benefit corporation?
Some friends have asked me, “Why is a CFO building a public benefit corporation?”
My entire career, I've worked in and around venture capital and private equity, including big bulge-bracket private equity (the kind that show up in books and business school case studies and have a specifc kind of reputation). I've seen firsthand the impact of growing profits at all costs, and continually chasing ever cent of margin possible.
At the same time: I'm a millennial, and I'm tired of once-in-a-lifetime events. Every few years, a new one shows up. In reality, technology has accelerated disruption in the 21st century, and the advent of AI, agents, and LLMs is only going to continue to accelerate disruption.
Unfortunately, we've seen over the last 30 years that disruption has often resulted in increased inequality, both in the United States and around the world.
What we're doing here at Axorum is making agentic commerce safe, and building guardrails around non-deterministic machines transacting on behalf of people and businesses. A very natural consequence of that will be an increase in agentic commerce. If folks believe that it's safe, they'll do it. That likely will result in even more disruption and a strong likelihood of more inequality.
Axorum is founded as a public benefit corporation because I don't believe that making money and doing good are mutually exclusive, and I don't want to solely participate in increasing disruption and increasing inequality in the world.
Do I know exactly what our goals are?
No.
A lot of our focus will depend on how agentic commerce unfolds and what happens when society delegates commerce to machines. But our mission is to make this a safer, healthier, more equitable ecosystem, and I welcome any and all folks who want to participate in that as well.
A CFO and CTO founding team
Building an accounting and control layer for agents moving money takes two rare things at once:
- The judgment of someone who has run a financial close and held fiduciary duty
- The discipline of someone who builds systems that cannot be wrong
Neither is enough alone, so Axorum was founded by a pairing that holds both.
Co-founder & Finance
Tim sees the accounting-layer gap from a decade as a startup CFO. He's operated institutionally-backed startups, sometimes without any direct reports. He's made journal entries in Quickbooks then walked into the Board Room. He's lived the pain of manual reconciliations, fractured data, and poor governance. And he's built the systems that gave his teams the ability to pick their heads up and add value back to the business. Before being a CFO, he spent most of his nights in hotel rooms as a Deloitte consultant working for Private Equity and Strategic buyers on M&A diligence. He holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BA of Mathematics from Boston College.
Co-founder & Engineering
Roland spent years building the ledgers, attestation, and event-sourced payments foundations this engine runs on. As AWS Principal Product Manager Technical, he led Rust adoption across Amazon and AWS, into infrastructure serving 300M+ customer accounts, and helped drive Rust into S3 Express One Zone and CodeWhisperer’s GA. Earlier he helped launch Microsoft Azure via Avanade. A US Air Force veteran, he has 8+ years of production Rust and authored rusty_paseto, acton-reactive, agent-uri, and beankeeper, a type-enforced double-entry accounting library, plus a paper under peer review on multi-agent coordination.
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