Current Interests:
- Co-author of "
The Big Bitcoin Book"
- Active on
Twitter and
YouTube- Co-creator of
Bitcoin First- Early Stage Angel Investor, Example:
Embrace - General summary of
what we know about Bitcoin- Additional presentations, articles, and tweets can be found
hereReading and Listening to:-
Titan about John D. Rockafeller
-
The Fall of Civilizations, by Paul Cooper.
-
The Age of Napoleon -- about the foundation of modern France / Europe.
Academic Background:
- B.A. In Math, Cornell University
- PhD in Operations Research / Applied Math Stanford University
- My thesis "
d-arrangements and Random Polyhedra", was awarded with distinction
- I have a paper published in
IEEE transactions on pattern recognition and machine intelligence.Wall Street Background:- Bond Arbitrage, Salomon Brothers, NY
- Bond Arbitrage, Greenwich Capital, Greenwich CT
Entrepreneurial Background:- Fauve Software, sold to Macromedia
- Random Noise, sold to Vignette
- iwin.com, sold to Vivendi
- Traffic Marketplace, sold to Vivendi
- TagWorld, sold to Viacom
- GradientX, sold to Singapore Telecom
- Adconion, sold to Singapore Telecom
- Five Delta, sold to SRAX
- MMX, sold to GoDaddy
- Lynx, sold to Metal
Personal:
- Lives in Los Angeles
- Wife Magda, Son Vincent, Dog
Alaska.