Jeffrey Zirlin (YC 15), Growth Lead of Axie Infinity
“Roblox taught a lot of kids how to program for Web 2.0; part of our long-term vision is to occupy that niche for Web 3.0.”
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Ali Banai (Yale Financial Markets Certificate 14), WeWork Senior Business Lead and Adept Crypto Miner
“Despite that road bump, I bought more and kept digging deeper into the technology. I was investing in more than just the coins. I was invested in the underlying technology.”
Angela Ramirez (YC 12), Software Engineer at Livepeer, Ethereum-based Video Encoding Platform
“It’s a small industry compared to other industries, but that just makes it all the more exciting. I love it. I love my job. It’s a great opportunity to come up with fresh ideas and make a difference.”
Tom Trowbridge (YC 96), Former President of Hedera Hashgraph
“A friend wanted to move money out of a Swiss bank account, and I wondered whether he should use Bitcoin. At the time, it was priced at around $300, and I began paying much more attention to the ecosystem.”
Nick Arora (Yale HCM 15), Director of Medical Information at xCures and Advisor to Rymedi
“Having some background in [health and life sciences] has helped me strike that balance between the bigger vision for blockchain and the realities for healthcare providers, payers, and ultimately doctors and patients.”
Agha Khan (Yale OpenLab 19), Blockchain and AI Strategist for Techstars, OpenLab, and KPMG
“The issue of institutional custody is being solved by a number of companies, including Fidelity, which is going to come out with its institutional custody services in the near future.”
JP Thieriot (YC 91), CEO of Uphold, Leading Digital Money Platform
“If you’re an Uphold participant in Venezuela, it’s probably not nice to own crypto. It’s survival.”
Jack Fonss (Yale SOM 93), Chief Architect of AccuShares’ IP Portfolio and Blockchain Technologies Inventor
“I think the classic ways people look at the technology’s usefulness and adaptions are unnecessarily limited by conventions and orthodoxy.”