I saw a gap in the market for tools to run Ethereum nodes efficiently, which would enable institutions to engage with blockchain technology.

I realized that if you have a source of time in a network, you can build a more efficient system that utilizes the entire bandwidth allocated to it, unlike traditional protocols that suffer from inefficiencies.

The unique insight we had was that solving the problem of poor channel utilization in networks is sufficient for achieving scalability in crypto, without needing to resort to more complex solutions like sharding.

I see blockchain and crypto as opportunities to create new experiences that can dramatically change people's behavior.

Before my startups, I built technology inside larger companies, including developing asynchronous input/output software that outperformed major database companies.

Before founding Linear, I was a founding designer at Coinbase and a principal designer at Airbnb, where I learned the importance of building tools that are fast and efficient.

The resilient part of being a founder is to continue working on a problem while others tell you it’s not worth solving, and I had to put everything I have into Blockdaemon without a clear promise of a better market environment, just to make it last as long as possible.

I can have a really cool conversation about tradeoffs when we discover a project is more complicated than we thought.

I wanted to contribute to Bitcoin because I know how to build and scale software companies and corral capital to address succinct problems.