# Dan Romero

> Dan Romero is a Duke educated technology operator and angel investor who joined Coinbase as its twentieth employee, co-founded the decentralized social protocol Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan, and joined Tempo in 2026 to work on stablecoin payments.

- **Role:** GTM at Tempo
- **Organizations:** Tempo, Farcaster, Merkle Manufactory, Coinbase, Envoy, Bain & Company
- **Education:** BA, English, Duke University
- **Known for:** Joined Coinbase as its twentieth employee and helped build bank partnerships and international operations., Co-founded Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan and helped develop the Warpcast client., Helped Farcaster introduce Frames, which let developers add interactive experiences inside social feeds.

## Career timeline

- **2010-2013** — Worked as an associate consultant at Bain & Company.
- **2013-2014** — Worked in product and business development at Envoy.
- **2014-2019** — Joined Coinbase as employee No. 20 and held leadership roles across partnerships, operations, customer support, consumer products and international expansion.
- **2020-2021** — Began exploring RSS+ with former Coinbase colleague Varun Srinivasan; the project became Farcaster.
- **2022** — Announced a $30 million investment led by a16z crypto in Merkle Manufactory, the company behind Farcaster.
- **2024** — Farcaster's Frames feature drew a surge of attention and developer activity; the company later raised a $150 million Series A led by Paradigm.
- **2026-01** — Neynar announced its acquisition of Farcaster's protocol, app and Clanker.
- **2026-02** — Romero and Srinivasan joined Tempo to work on stablecoin payments.

## Achievements

- Joined Coinbase as its twentieth employee and helped build bank partnerships and international operations.
- Co-founded Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan and helped develop the Warpcast client.
- Helped Farcaster introduce Frames, which let developers add interactive experiences inside social feeds.
- Angel invested in companies including Linear, Uniswap, Bridge, Privy, WorkOS and Substack.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Discussed stablecoin payments and speculation as the two main adoption poles for crypto at Consensus 2026 in Miami.
- **2026-02** — Joined Tempo with Farcaster co-founder Varun Srinivasan.
- **2026-01** — Neynar announced it was acquiring the Farcaster protocol, client and Clanker from Merkle.

## Links

- Website: https://danromero.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwromero
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dwr
- GitHub: https://github.com/danromero
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danromero.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwr/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29