Nihar Shah and Lucas Baker - Research at Jump Crypto
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Release Date: 09/21/2022
Room40 - Wes Tang-Wymer
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Wes Tang-Wymer is co-founder of Room40, a crossover investment firm focused on crypto. Room40's platform consists of a multi-strategy hedge fund and early-stage venture funds. Prior to Room40, Wes was a founding team member of SoftBank Group International and SoftBank Vision Fund, where he oversaw investments and held board roles across a range of growth stage companies in the fintech, transportation, and logistics sectors. Before SoftBank, he was an equities investment analyst at Point72. Wes began his career at Morgan Stanley in the investment banking department. ----- ...
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M31 – David Attermann
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
is a Senior Portfolio Manager at, a global crypto investment firm with institutional-grade liquid token and venture strategies. He previously co-founded Omnichain Capital, a thesis-driven liquid token fund focused on Web3 infrastructure and middleware. Before entering crypto full-time in early 2021, David spent ten years in traditional finance, advising and investing in technology companies. —– This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research (“GCR”) is a community-first research and investment DAO. GCR’s mission is to create a community-driven investment DAO where the...
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Theia - a Private Equity Approach to Digital Assets
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Theia is a liquid digital assets fund applying the principles of prudent investing to blockchain, led by Co-Founders CEO John McNiff and CIO Felipe Montealegre. Prior to founding Theia, John worked in the private equity group at Goldman Sachs, investing in opportunistic real estate and asset management companies. John received his MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in History from Yale University. Prior to founding Theia, Felipe was a Vice President on the investment team at BayPine, a $2 billion private equity fund investing in automation and digital...
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Chris Abiaad - Product Manager’s Lens on Investing
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
is the founder of , a liquid venture fund with a long-only strategy investing based on fundamentals. He previously spent 10 years as a builder in Web2 focused on product, working with data companies such as Enigma.com. Chris has been involved in the cryptocurrency market since 2016 while he was pursuing his MBA at Cornell Tech. He's since built a vast knowledge base of the markets and a solid investment track record, which has led him to the launch of Frens Capital in June of 2022. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first...
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James Ho - The Superpower of Modularity
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
James Ho is co-founder and Managing Partner of Modular Capital, a fundamental and thesis driven crypto investment firm that invests across liquid tokens and early stage venture. Previously, James was a Principal at Altimeter Capital, a $10 billion technology crossover investment firm where he focused on fintech and crypto investments. Prior to Altimeter, James was a Vice President at D. E. Shaw, a $50 billion global multi-strategy hedge fund, covering technology, payments and fintech in the public markets. He also spent time as a software developer at Bridgewater. James studied Statistics at...
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Diogenes Casares - Special Situations Investing in Crypto
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Diogenes Casares is the founder of Patagon Management, a digital assets investment firm with a focus on activist investing and risk-on arbitrage. Diogenes is currently attending NYU. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first research and investment DAO. GCR’s mission is to create a community-driven investment DAO where the best web3 deals are sourced by community members for community members. This discussion was recorded in our Discord. You can find more information about us and how to join at...
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Stephen McKeon - Consumer Investing in Crypto
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Stephen McKeon is a managing partner at Collab+Currency, a web3-focused venture fund that has completed over 120 deals across nearly every corner of crypto. Today Collab+Currency focuses almost exclusively on consumer applications and infrastructure. Previously, Stephen was a tenured finance professor at the University of Oregon, and also taught at Cambridge University, and UC Berkeley. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first research and investment DAO. GCR’s mission is to create a community-driven investment DAO where the best...
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Eric Chen - Injective is Building for DeFi
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Eric Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Injective Labs, a research and development company focused on creating unmatched decentralized finance solutions. Injective Labs is one of the core contributors to Injective, a blockchain built for finance. Injective is one of the largest Cosmos projects, garnering interest from leading professionals across hedge funds, venture capitals and blockchain projects, including but not limited to Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban, Hashed and Binance. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first research and investment DAO....
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Sonya Kim - Progrmd for Fundamental Investing
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Sonya Kim is the founder of Progrmd Capital, an actively managed, long-term focused liquid token fund. Prior to launching Progrmd, Sonya worked at Aberforth Partners and Kiltearn Partners, privately-owned investment firms in Edinburgh, where she helped manage several billion dollars of institutional client capital in undervalued public equities. Sonya began her career as an Investment Risk Analyst at Baillie Gifford, a global growth investor notable for its successful implementation of the long-term investment philosophy. Sonya holds a Master of Finance from MIT as well as a BA in Mathematics...
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Peter Pan - Summoning Hydra Ventures
Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
Peter Pan is the Co-Founder and Co-Summoner of Hydra Ventures. Hydra Ventures is the first dedicated fund backing investment DAOs. Operating as a DAO itself, Hydra Venture’s mission is to proliferate community first investing across all of web3. Peter is also a partner at 1k(x) Capital, an early stage investment firm specializing in crypto ecosystem growth, and a co-founder of MetaCartel Ventures, Ethereum’s earliest investment DAO investing in early stage crypto projects. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first...
info_outlineNihar Shah and Lucas Baker are researchers and investors at Jump Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, a research-driven quantitative trading firm. Jump Crypto is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. They study questions regarding protocol and mechanism design, tokenomics, stablecoins, optimal governance, core blockchain infrastructure, and the financial stability of crypto ecosystems. Lucas previously worked as a macro researcher at D.E. Shaw and a software engineer on the DeepMind AlphaGo team. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford University and an MS/MBA dual degree from Harvard University. Nihar previously worked as an economist at Meta on the Libra/Diem cryptocurrency project. He received his undergraduate degree in economics, masters degrees in statistics and economics, and PhD in economics, all from Harvard University.
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