Christian Pickett is Cofounder and CEO of Orthogonal, a Y Combinator backed (W26) platform building the discovery and payments layer for the AI agent economy. Prior to Orthogonal, he worked on payments at Coinbase and was a tech lead on the billing platform team at Vercel, where he worked on usage-based billing, and earlier built security software at BlackBerry as a Full Stack Developer and Watson Digital Advisor at IBM. Christian holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from McGill University, where he met his cofounder, and is a member of the Forbes Business Council.