Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant graduated from Conant High School and later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he earned a B.S in Computer Science.

Niraj had a couple of high profile software engineering internships when he was still in high school. He first interned at Besso Labs and later moved on to ShipBob. After that, he packed up his bags for San Francisco and had a string of internships at Lookout, Skycatch and Ripple.

Niraj struck out on his own when he moved to New York City and became the co-founder and CTO of Source Networks. Around that time he was also doing cryptocurrency research as an undergraduate at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Niraj is a campus ambassador at Sequoia Capital and general partner at Polychain Capital.

Niraj was born in Sydney, Australia grew up in Chicago, Illinois and now lives in San Francisco. His primary interests are music, the internet, books, cities, design, poker, basketball, and cryptocurrency. He has published several blog posts including:

-Hostile Chain Takeovers

-Ethereum SAT

-Merging Chains

-The Commoditization of Machine Learning

-The Ecosystem Effect

-Why I Love Fermi Problems