# Andy Bromberg

> Andy Bromberg is Eco’s co-founder, chairman and former CEO, CoinList’s co-founder and founding CEO, and a partner at Amity Ventures. He helped establish the Stanford Bitcoin Group, co-founded political discussion platform Sidewire and is a founding board member of FreeWorld. His current independent projects include Pattern, interface0, Copapers and open-source software tools.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chairman at Eco; Partner at Amity Ventures
- **Organizations:** Eco, CoinList, Amity Ventures, Sidewire, Stanford Bitcoin Group, FreeWorld
- **Education:** Stanford University
- **Known for:** Helped establish the Stanford Bitcoin Group in 2013., Co-founded CoinList, providing infrastructure for token offerings., Served as Eco CEO before becoming chairman.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Co-founded the Stanford Bitcoin Group.
- **2014** — Left Stanford to build Sidewire with Tucker Bounds.
- **2015** — Sidewire launched publicly in September.
- **2017** — Sidewire closed; co-founded CoinList and became its founding CEO.
- **2020** — Announced his departure from an operating role at CoinList to become Eco CEO.
- **2023** — As Eco CEO, introduced the Beam payment wallet.
- **2025** — Introduced interface0 in June.
- **2026** — Current biography lists Eco chairman and Amity Ventures partner; shipped Copapers, Side Eye, modelwatch and Pattern.

## Achievements

- Helped establish the Stanford Bitcoin Group in 2013.
- Co-founded CoinList, providing infrastructure for token offerings.
- Served as Eco CEO before becoming chairman.
- Reported 365 consecutive days of code commits on June 23, 2026.
- Guest lectured in Stanford CS 224G on applying the Theory of Constraints to AI applications.
- Founding board member of FreeWorld, supporting vocational training and employment for formerly incarcerated people.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Published Pattern: a new calendar on October 18.
- **2026-10** — Introduced open-source modelwatch on October 12.
- **2026-10** — Introduced Side Eye, a task-monitoring pomodoro timer, on October 2.
- **2026-08** — Published a detailed account of a personalised Winnie-the-Pooh edition for his daughter.
- **2026-06** — Introduced Copapers and recorded a year of daily code commits.

## Links

- Website: https://andybromberg.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andybromberg
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/andy_bromberg
- GitHub: https://github.com/abromberg

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Last updated: 2026-10-21