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Avery Ching Built the Pipes. Now He Wants to Move the Money.
A circuit-design class sent a Honolulu student toward supercomputing. Two decades later, the systems engineer behind Facebook data infrastructure and Diem is running Aptos Labs - and arguing that the next useful blockchain will look less like a coin and more like a market.
Morgan Beller
Morgan Beller is a General Partner at NFX, the seed-stage venture firm known for backing network-effects businesses. Before VC, she co-founded Facebook's Libra (later Diem) digital currency project at age 25, making her one of the most consequential figures in crypto policy history. A Cornell statistics graduate, she cut her teeth at Andreessen Horowitz before stints at Medium and Facebook, where her geopolitical alarm about China's digital currency ambitions drove her to attempt something audacious: rebuild global money on a blockchain. She now backs founders in crypto, fintech, AI, and space from San Francisco.