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Vlad Tenev is Co-Founder and CEO at Robinhood.

Vlad Tenev

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Jill Carlson Gunter is Principal at Slow Ventures; Co-Founder of Open Money Initiative; Advisor at O(1) Labs, Algorand, UMA.

I work in technology. I focus on innovation around markets and governance.

I am a co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system.

I co-host a podcast about cryptocurrency called What Grinds My Gears.

I advise startups including Algorand, O(1) Labs, and Risk Labs. I have consulted for projects including 0x, dYdX, CoinList, Tezos, and the Electric Coin (Zcash) Company. I have also worked with big institutions like the International Monetary Fund.

In my former lives, I was a bond trader on Wall Street and a classics enthusiast.

Jill Gunter

Ash Egan is Founder of Acrylic. Formerly Partner and Web3 investor at Accomplice VC. Investing in blockchain and crypto enabled protocols, applications and companies. 

Ash Egan is a Partner at Accomplice focusing on early stage blockchain and crypto investments. Previously, he was a founding Principal on the venture team at ConsenSys, the largest blockchain company in the world, where he led investments in BlockFi, Vault, RocketPool, and Quantstamp. Ash began his career in venture at Converge VC, where he focused primarily on blockchain/crypto and machine learning applications, and led the firm's investment in Chainalysis' seed round. Ash received his AB in American Politics from Princeton University where he captained the Men's Varsity Squash team and played on the National Champion Team in 2012. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and serves as an advisor to university students at Harvard Ventures and uConsortium. Ash has been published in Coindesk, VentureBeat, and the Boston Globe.

Ash Egan

Lasse Clausen is Founding partner of 1kx, and advisor to Loki, Perlin, Dock, Request Network and Fund Request. Skeptical optimist. Coffee & other discoveries across the planet.

Lasse Clausen

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

Alexander Pack was Founding Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners, a cryptoasset venture fund. Advisor at Bain Capital Ventures, previously at AngelList.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. The second best way is to finance it.

Building new models for early stage technology investing at Dragonfly Capital, Bain Capital, AngelList.

Early investor in several of the largest crypto companies, firms, and tokens such as:
- Protocols: Compound Finance, 1Inch, UMA, MakerDAO, DYDX, Ethereum, Cosmos, Filecoin
- Infrastructure: Bybit, Amber Group, MatrixPort, Crusoe, CoinDCX, BlockFi
- Firms seeded: Polychain, Paradigm, Parafi, 1kx, Castle Island, Multicoin

Alexander Pack

Vinny Lingham is known as the "Bitcoin Oracle" on account of his highly accurate predictions around the pricing of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

He is the founder and CEO of Civic, an identity management startup run on the blockchain. He was previously recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

By the way, He is General Partner at Multicoin Capital and Newtown Partners.

Vinny Lingham

Meltem Demirors is a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy & blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. On the legacy finance front, Ms. Demirors worked with some of the largest companies in the world, mainly on financial risk management and capital efficiency. On the blockchain-based finance side, she has had an intense focus on portfolio management and network development, beginning in the early days of cryptocurrency ecosystem development.

Meltem Demirors is the Managing Director at Digital Currency Group, which invests in (and advises) 100+ bitcoin and blockchain startups.

She is a member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain at the Davos World Economic Forum; building products CoinShares; investing, advising, lurking in trollbox; and is also an advisor and teacher at MIT and the University of Oxford.

Meltem Demirors

Steven McKie is Founding Partner/GP at Amentum, Host/Editor at BlockChannel, Advising Cent, Connext and Zastrin Lab.

My goal is to hone and develop the exceptional talent necessary for providing excellent technical expertise, project management methodology and rivaled dedication & adherence to success. A business and technical professional with a broad skill set who is committed to positive social change with the assistance of technology; with the hope to make great friendships along the way.

Change the rules, change the tools, change the culture -- change society.

Steven McKie

As an entrepreneur, inventor, and investor, Gary Kremen has over twenty five years of experience with emerging growth companies and developing breakthrough technology.

He is founder of several Silicon Valley companies.  In 1993, he founded Match.Com the world’s largest dating company where he came up with he idea of online dating, wrote the original business plan, invested the original capital, lead the design of the product and hired the first 20 employees.  Kremen also founded Clean Power Finance (backed by Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Claremont Creek Ventures), the leading residential solar power financing platform company which over one third of all solar installers in the U.S. run their business upon.  He co-founded, with Ben Dubin, Full Source Software and Los Altos Technologies, early Internet firms.  Gary incubated, was the first outside board member and wrote the first check in Dolores Labs (now Crowdflower), the leading crowdsourcing company.

He is an investor in over 50 companies including such clean technology companies as HydroNovation, Watersmart Software (where he is the Chairman), Sunlink, Carbon Flow, Recurve, Greenbox (acquired by Silver Springs Network), Enmetric, Ready Solar (acquired by Sun Edision), Solar Universe, Lifefactory, People Power Co., Niman Ranch, and Marone Bio Innovations.
Gary is the primary inventor of the seminal U.S. patent for dynamically created web pages, patent #5,706,434 as well as patents #7,698,210 and #7,890,436.  He holds an MBA from Stanford University as well as degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Vlad Tenev

Co-Founder at Robinhood.

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