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nemil

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About Me: Visiting Partner at Y Combinator (LinkedIn, X) Previously, built the future of crypto: helping lead USDC to $1 BN, leading Coinbase's asset strategy, launching staking, managing billions of dollars in funds through secure wallet tech, leading developer products (cdp.coinbase.com), and laun

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30 from 31 Jan 2010 to 13 Jul 2026
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2026 1

  1. Make Something Agents Want

2020 6

  1. DeFi will do to Banks what the Internet did to Newspapers
  2. 3 Things DeFi Lending can learn from the Financial Crisis
  3. The User is King (And Not)
  4. The Blockchain Wars
  5. The ICO Bat-Signal
  6. Don’t Write Code

2019 10

  1. The Freedom of Ignorance
  2. When Elvis Met Satoshi
  3. Beware Engineering Media
  4. Pierce the Abstraction Wall
  5. Think in Tradeoffs
  6. Beware Burnout
  7. Read Code
  8. Rationally Irrational
  9. An Insider Guide to the Tech Industry
  10. Four Startup Engineering Killers

2018 5

  1. Why Facebook has to focus on more than engagement: A response to a16z’s Benedict Evans
  2. Centralization First
  3. What Open Source Can Learn from Slack
  4. The Tyranny of Values
  5. Why Crypto Contracts Matter

2017 5

  1. The Marketing Behind MongoDB
  2. Startup Engineers and Our Mistakes with MongoDB
  3. Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB?
  4. The deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the way we die
  5. How the Media Fuels our Fear of Western Terrorism

2016 2

  1. Engineers and Ethics in Software
  2. The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring

2010 1

  1. Breaking up with the Yankees