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Ali Yahya is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Previously, he was a software engineer and machine learning researcher at GoogleX and Google Brain, where he worked on learning algorithms for robotic manipulation, and developed Google's open source machine learning library, TensorFlow. Ali discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper as a computer science undergraduate at Stanford University. He became fascinated by the computer science implications and went down the rabbit hole, but somehow missed the economic implications until a few years later, and so sadly did not mine any from his dorm room. While at Stanford, Ali conducted research with Professors David Mazieres, Nick McKeown, and David Cheriton at the intersection of computer security, networking, and distributed systems. Fun fact: For three months in 2008, Ali followed a polyphasic sleep schedule, sleeping an average of 2.5 hours a night by taking a twenty-minute nap every four hours.
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David Pekar
David Pekar, Co-Founder and CEO at Rare Bits. At Rare Bits (rarebits.io), we believe digital goods that live on the blockchain are fundamentally better for consumers. We’re building products that introduce these goods to mainstream audiences. Formerly, Product Manager, AdMob at Google; Co-Founder, Head of Product at Toro.
Alex Pruden
Alex Pruden is Chief Executive Officer at Aleo, ex-Deal Partner at Andreessen-Horowitz (Crypto Vertical).He is a former U.S. Army Infantry and Special Operations officer with a deep passion for applied cryptography and blockchain technology. I am currently pursuing my MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, after which I aspire to create a more secure, transparent, and equitable future for my children and their generation to experience.
Zoe Weinberg
Zoe Weinberg is the Founder & managing partner of ex/ante. Previously, Zoe served on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and at Google AI. Prior she focused on national security, working in Mosul Iraq during the counter-ISIL operation in 2017. She was an investor at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and at Goldman Sachs. Her work on national security has been published in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs and she co-hosts the podcast Next in Foreign Policy. Zoe received her JD from Yale Law School, MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and BA from Harvard College.
Guillaume Poncin
Guillaume Poncin is the director of engineering at Alchemy, a Web3 developer platform. He previously served as the head of Web3 at Stripe. During his work at Stripe, Guillaume Poncin launched a fiat-to-cryptocurrency channel and a cross-border payment product using stablecoins. Before joining Stripe, Poncin spent 12 years at Google as a technical lead for Google Books and Google Cloud. Guillaume Poncin graduated from Stanford University.
Avichal Garg
Avichal Garg is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Electric Capital. He was the Director of Product Management at Facebook, where he led the Local product team.
Shaaran Lakshminarayanan
Shaaran Lakshminarayanan is the Founder at Brine & Krypto. Presively he worked as Machine Learning Facilitator at Google. Shaaran graduated from Stanford and Vellore Institute of Technology.
Tariq Patanam
Tariq Patanam is the Co-founder at teablocks.Presively, he worked as Software Engineer at YouTube and Google.Tariq Patanam graduated from Stanford University.
Peiqian Li
Peiqian Li is co-founder and co-chief technology officer of Aperture Finance and was previously a senior software engineer at Google. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Steven Willinger
Steven Willinger is the Partner of Blockchain Builders Fund. Presively he was Ventures Lead at Coinbase. Product Management at Blockstream. GTM at Google. Steven Willinger graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Ivan Bogatyy
Ivan Bogatyy is Research Partner at Dragonfly. Previously Partner at MetaStable Capital, GoogleAI 2014–2018 deep learning & TensorFlow.
