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Daniel Reynaud was previously a research engineering partner at a16z crypto. Prior to joining a16z, Daniel worked on smart contracts at Showtime, distributed systems at Netflix, and compilers at Apple.
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Ronny Conway
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Ramu Arunachalam
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Edward Yang
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Li Jin
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Peng Jia
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Nina Suthers
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Stephen Tse
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Robbie Heeger
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