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Jared Flatow was previously VP of Engineering at Compound and founded Quasi Convex Union. He grew up in Oceanside, NY (school #9). In 2003, he moved to Houston, TX to study electrical and computer engineering at Rice University. In 2007, he moved to Chicago, IL to work for the Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (though it was then under a different name as part of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center). In 2009, he moved to Palo Alto, CA to join the Data Insight program at Nokia Research Center.
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Jake Nyquist
Jake Nyquist is the Founder at Hook Protocol.Presively, he worked as Software Engineering Intern at Airbnb & Facebook.
Geoffrey Hayes
Geoffrey Hayes is the Founder and CTO at Compound. Formerly Engineering Manager at Postmates. Founder of Safe Shepherd. Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies. University of Pennsylvania 2008.
Soups Ranjan
Soups Ranjan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sardine. He was previously the Director of Data Science and Risk at Coinbase. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, with a dissertation titled "High-Performance Distributed Denial-of-Service Resilient Web Cluster Architecture".
Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. He founded the company, which has become one of the largest in the Bitcoin space, in June 2012. He is also the co-founder of GiveCrypto, working to build an open financial system for the world. Before founding Coinbase, Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at AirBNB from 2011 to 2012. He had also previously founded UniversityTutory.com and worked as a software engineer at CarWoo.com.
Dennis Qian
Dennis Qian is the co-founder at Definitive, having previously worked as a senior software engineer at Coinbase and Tagomi. He graduated from Rice University.
Calvin Liu
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer, where he is building infrastructure to extend Ethereum's trust network to any distributed system. He is also an investor at Divergence Ventures, focusing on pre-seed crypto investments. Previously, he served as Strategy Lead at Compound Labs, where he helped build and deploy the Compound interest rate protocol. Calvin has also worked as a data analytics professional at Gusto and was the co-founder of Outpour, an iOS app that enabled users to write appreciative messages about their friends anonymously. He holds a degree in Economics from Harvard University.
Robert Feng
Robert Feng is the Vice President of Sales and Strategy at iPeakoin. He was previously an investor at Jinshajiang Venture Capital and an analyst at Deloitte.
Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.
Jake Chervinsky
Jake Chervinsky is Chief Compliance Officer of Variant Fund, Chief Policy Officer of Blockchain Association, and former Compound General Counsel.
Dean Swennumson
Dean Swennumson is co-founder and head of operations at Superstate and was previously an operations associate at Compound. He holds a BA in Financial Economics and Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara.