Keeping Up with Crypto: Recent Episodes
Grace Gong
Trevor McFedries is the CEO of Dapper Labs’ Dapper Collectives. He is also the founder of Brud, a Sequoia-backed startup that created a popular robot transmedia influencer Lil Miquela with over 3 million followers on Instagram that had collaborated with top brands like Prada and supermodels like Bella Hadid. Trevor is also the founder of Friends with Benefits, one of the most influential DAO. Prior to working in tech, he was a DJ and music producer who worked with top talents like Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Chris Brown, Steve Aoki, and many others.
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Brett Harrison is the President of FTX.US, which recently raised $400 million at $8 Billion Valuation. Its parent company FTX, currently valued at $32 Billion, is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. FTX US partnered with top athletes like Tom Brady, Stephen Curry, it holds the naming rights of the Miami Heat Stadium, worked with MLB (Major League Baseball), Golden State Warriors, Mercedes F1 among others. Prior to FTX, Brett was the Head of Semi-Systematic Technology at Citadel Securities where he managed Options, ETF, ADR and OTC technology groups. Brett started his career at Jane Street, worked as the Head of Trading Systems Technology, and as senior software developer at Headlands Technologies LLC. He holds a Bachelor Degree and a Master Degree of Computer Science from Harvard University.
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Yoni Assia is the Co-founder and CEO of eToro, a leading social investment platform with over 27 million users who exchange investment strategies, connect and share thoughts about the market across the platform. Yoni was an early believer in Blockchain technology. Beyond founding eToro, he had worked on the Colored Coins project with Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. He also established the GoodDollar foundation, a non-profit that helps the mass market to adopt crypto.
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Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading crypto wealth management service. Prior to founding Abra, Bill worked as a research engineer at NASA, the CIA, as well as a VP of Goldman Sachs. Bill also served as CEO at multiple companies such as Boom Financial and WebSentric. He gave the first-ever TED talk on bitcoin back in 2012 when bitcoin was trading at $5. He also created the world’s first synthetic dollar/ stablecoin based on Bitcoin in 2015.
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Imran Khan is the founder and CEO/Core Contributor of Alliance DAO, a top accelerator for Web3 companies. He formerly served as the General Partner at Token Daily Capital. Prior to that Imran worked at Microsoft, where he helped launch One Note for Education, Surface, and HoloLens. He was also a Partner at zk Capital and led investments into Dharma and Namebase. Prior to that, he worked at Comcast leading strategy for its enterprise unit.
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Baek Kim is the General Partner at #Hashed, one of the leading crypto startup investing funds. Hashed has grown to $4B+ in AUM investing in Web3 and crypto companies. Their investment includes some of the top crypto companies such as Terra Money, Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, ZKSync, among others. Prior to crypto investing, Baek has worked at Amazon Web Services and founded a Robotics startup.
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Kevin Rose is a partner at True Ventures, a VC firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. He focuses on blockchain, consumer internet, and health/ wellness. Prior to his career at True Ventures, he was a GP at Google Ventures and a serial entrepreneur. He founded Digg, Zero, Oak, and other tech companies. He also invested in Twitter, Facebook, Square, Solana, Ripple, Nextdoor, Medium, Blue Bottle Coffee, and many other iconic companies.
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Devin Finzer is the Co-founder and CEO at OpenSea, the first peer-to-peer marketplace for blockchain-based assets. OpenSea raised $100 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by A16Z to scale its open NFT marketplace. Prior to founding OpenSea, Devin co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma.
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Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder of Alameda Research, the quantitative crypto trading firm where he manages $2.5 billion of assets. He also founded FTX, a crypto derivatives exchange. Prior to founding and serving as CEO of the companies, Sam was an ETF trader at Jane Street and a Physics student at MIT. According to Forbes, his net worth is $8.7 Billion at age 29.
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