Details
Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs. He earned a Ph.D. at Princeton University and then joined Google.
Work Experience
Education Experience
Relevance Person
Lawrence Diao
Lawrence Diao is General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Formerly Co-Founder of Basis Protocol, quant/engineer at Google, Radix Trading, and DE Shaw.
Harry Kalodner
Harry Kalodner is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Arbitrum and Offchain Labs. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Nader Al-Naji
Nader Al-Naji is the Founder and CEO of BASIS. He has raised over $133M from top investors such as Bain Capital Ventures, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Stan Druckenmiller, Kevin Warsh, Foundation, and Wing. He has built a team of 14 people with backgrounds from Goldman Sachs, Google, Bridgewater, Bain Capital, McKinsey, Harvard Law, D. E. Shaw, Tower Research, Hudson River Trading, and top-tier universities. He has led the development of a fully-functional system built on the Ethereum blockchain, which has been validated via two separate third-party audits. Nader has also developed relationships with journalists and acted as a spokesperson for the company, appearing on Fortune, CNBC, BusinessInsider, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, and many others. He has spoken at conferences, including a talk at the IMF. He has worked with multiple law firms including Sullivan and Cromwell, Wilmerhale, WSGR, MWE, Paul Hastings, and Sidley to push regulatory compliance initiatives and design the system to fit within existing regulatory frameworks. After a deep analysis of the regulatory landscape, taking into consideration a tightening of securities regulation in particular, they decided to shut down and return capital to investors. A full story is available on basis.io. Nader coordinated an acquihire of the company, setting up a competitive process to give all of their staff a soft landing.
Max Branzburg
Max Branzburg is Head of consumer products at Coinbase and a graduate of Princeton University.
Patrick McGregor
Patrick McGregor is the Chief Product Officer at Crusoe. Presively he worked at Coinbase, Google and Trustwave. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University & Princeton University.
Preston Van Loon
Preston Van Loon is Co-founder at Prysmatic Labs.
Daniel Alegre
Daniel Alegre is the CEO of Yuga Labs, and he previously served as the COO of Activision Blizzard. Previously, Daniel spent more than sixteen years at Google in various leadership roles. Daniel holds dual MBA and JD degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, and a BA degree with Honors from Princeton University from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Daniel is fluent in English, Spanish, French and German, and proficient in Russian.
Brendan Chou
Brendan Chou is the Head of Engineering at dYdX. Previously at Site Reliability Engineer at Google, Financial Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Princeton Computer Science '15.
Kayvon Tehranian
Kayvon Tehranian is Founder & CEO at Foundation Labs, Inc. Formerly, Head of Product at Dharma Labs, CTO at Universe.
Terry Rossi
Terry Rossi is the Co-Founder & CEO at Woah. Previously, he was the investment director of Blockchange Ventures, a founding team member of Tachyon Accelerator, and an investment analyst at ConsenSys. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Princeton University.