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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Clinton Bembry’s Second Exit Was Built on Making Crypto Feel Boring
Founder · Engineer · Executive

Clinton Bembry’s Second Exit Was Built on Making Crypto Feel Boring

First Astro Wallet sold to Coinbase. Then Slingshot sold to Magic Eden. Across both companies, Clinton Bembry has pursued the same unfashionable idea: crypto works better when users do not have to think about crypto.

clinton-bembry · slingshotRead →
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Illia Polosukhin
Founder · Engineer · Executive

Illia Polosukhin

Illia Polosukhin is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017), the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture powering virtually every modern AI system, and co-founded NEAR Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain that raised $500M+ and peaked at a $20B+ market cap. Now CEO of the NEAR Foundation, he is building 'User-Owned AI' - privacy-preserving, decentralized AI infrastructure that puts users in control of their data and models rather than corporations.

near-protocol · transformerRead →