"I moved from Chile to be closer to the ecosystem—more meetups, more conferences, more time in person with the team.
This isn’t my first time living in the U.S. I did my PhD at Columbia, from 2010 to 2015. That’s actually where I met Ben—my advisor asked me to supervise him while he was visiting the program. We worked on a project about private database searches, long before either of us were thinking about blockchain. But we were already thinking about privacy.."