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Alli Pope is Director of Education and Events at Variant Fund. She is a web2 girl livin in a web3 world.

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Alli Pope

Roham Gharegozlou is Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and upcoming projects like NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain. Former CEO at Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio based in Vancouver, BC, creators of ZenHub, Routific, Timeline, and more. Investor/advisor to awesome startups, former VC, relentless optimist. Interests focused on entrepreneurship, technology, bio-medicine and economic development.

Roham Gharegozlou

I am an entrepreneur and founder of Electric Capital.

I was Director of Product Management at Facebook where I led the Local product team. I have also worked on Search and Ads at Google, started and sold a few companies, and invested in startups including Optimizely, Boom, Color, Cruise, Instawork, CaseText, and many more.

Most of my posts are based on email threads and conversations with entrepreneurs. If I end up sending the same email twice or have the same conversation twice, I turn it in to a blog post to save time in the future.

Avichal Garg

Arthur Hayes is the co-founder and CEO of BitMex, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. With years of experience in the banking industry at Citigroup, Arthur is now helping the Hong Kong-based exchange execute on its ambitious growth strategy.

Arthur Hayes

Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector.

Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Matthew Walsh

Alexis Ohanian is Co-founder, Initialized Capital (earliest seed investor in 100+ great startups — $36B in market value so far). Bestselling author. Co-founder, Reddit. Son of an undocumented immigrant.

Alexis Ohanian

"Blockchain technology represents one of the greatest generational opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors..."

Matthew Roszak is co-founder and chairman of Bloq, a blockchain enterprise software company. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on blockchain-enabled technology with a portfolio of over 20 investments, including BitFury, Blockstream and Factom.

Mr. Roszak is a blockchain investor, entrepreneur and advocate. He has spent over 20 years in private equity and venture capital with Advent International, Keystone Capital Partners, Platinum Venture Partners and SilkRoad Equity, and has invested over $1 billion of capital (from start-up to IPO) in a broad range of industries. Mr. Roszak is a director and beneficial owner of Eboost, MissionMode, NeuEntity, Onramp, SolidSpace and TrueLook.

Mr. Roszak serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. In addition, Mr. Roszak serves on the board of BitGive, a non-profit foundation targeting public health and the environment. Mr. Roszak is also the founder of the Chicago Bitcoin Center, and was a producer of the blockchain industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.

Mr. Roszak is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified before US Congress and spoken at The Brookings Institution. Mr. Roszak has been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CoinDesk and Bitcoin Magazine. In addition, Mr. Roszak has presented at FinTech conferences worldwide, including Money20/20, CES and American Banker.

Matthew Roszak

Liam Horne is Contributor at Optimism PBC, Co-founder of ETHGlobal, State channels developer. Formerly, Co-Founder at  L4V, Director of Engineering at Atomic, CTO at PiinPoint.

Liam Horne

Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and  Claremont McKenna College.

Michael Arrington

Soona Amhaz is General Partner at Volt Capital, Co-Founder and CEO at Token Daily, pusher, unblocker, and occasional direction setter.