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Cumicucmanh

Cumicucmanh

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Known for quiet credibility-building in the web3 crypto space, valued for kindness and active sharing with others. Long-standing relationships reflect consistent character, with a reputation for prioritizing trust over trend.

“As a security professional, Ben has been defending against fraud, scams, and hacks since 2006.”Part of Ben’s enthusiasm comes from his early career at FINRA detecting wash trading. FINRA is an almost 100 year institution formed by reputable traders trying to stand out among what was then a chaotic market. Sounds familiar! Since then he’s helped catch collusion on Pokerstars, fight bots on MMOs, and detect insurance fraud. He’s always had a toe in academia, graduating from Cornell, authoring an O’Reilly book on web security, and teaching at Berkeley and Tufts. In 2015 he was the 2nd hire at Stackrox, a security startup. Stackrox was funded by Sequoia in 2017 and later acquired by Red Hat for a mid 9-figure sum. At the time he faded Eth due to the DAO hack, concluding that these immutable smart contracts would not be secure enough to survive adversarial conditions. Interested in privacy and thinking of cryptocurrency as a currency and not an asset, he bought Monero instead. Oops. That itch to solve problems with new products continued after joining Atlassian. He pitched the idea for Beacon (another security product) to the internal accelerator. With Trevor, they grew the team, product, and vision. With Ben and Trevor now chatting nightly, figuring out how to raise capital, geeking out over various mechanics they could one day imagine, and being slightly terrified of quitting their day job (while Trevor’s wife was pregnant!) to build this.. they were well on their journey to the early phases of Ethos. Through 0x5f Capital and other intros and relationships that Trevor had built over the years, Trevor & Ben were able to find over 60 community member investors to invest in really just an idea and a whitepaper. Some of the community knew Trevor for trading, and others trusted him for managing their money. Most didn’t know Ben and had no idea if they could even build their crazy vision. They knew they needed enough money to keep up with the market, hire some cracked developers, and pay for smart contract audits. In January, they quit their jobs, and in May, they closed their fundraise at $1.75m (which they actually took all the way up to $1.98 with a few follow-on investors like Primitive Ventures). Since then, they’ve hired three full-time Atlassian employees, brought two products to market, and successfully delivered on the original vision.on ben walther · 2000· 1y ago · neutral5
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