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Tom Schmidt
Tom Schmidt is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital, the leading crypto-native venture firm, where he serves as the team's DeFi expert. A Stanford CS graduate who mined Dogecoin in 2012 and turned down an early Coinbase offer to intern at a Chinese AI company, Schmidt brings rare cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary depth to his investing. After stints at Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, and 0x Protocol, he joined Dragonfly in 2019 and has since championed landmark bets on Dune Analytics, Lido, Ethena, Polymarket, and Rain. He writes some of the most technically rigorous DeFi research in the industry and is known as a low-profile investor whose map of the future tends to be a few years ahead of the market.
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