Rachel Chu
building an open internet
I am a builder, angel investor, and wanna-be creative.
I contribute to Solayer Labs: the hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain ($400M total value locked, backed by Polychain and Binance Labs)
Previously, I was the core contributor at Sushiswap, a decentralized trading protocol ($6.5B total value locked, $272.24b in trading vol)
that was fair-launched in September 2020, led product, strategy, partnerships, etc with a mission of bringing open access of finance to
the masses in the most decentralized and permissionless fashion.
I invest in crazy things. I am a venture scout a Sequoia Capital US.
I studied (conti.) at UC Berkeley for undergraduate in electrical engineering, with a focus on machine learning and neuroscience.
I dropped out as a recipient of Thiel Fellowship. Prior to that, I studied mostly computer science at Stanford University,
Technology of interest: permissionless networks, brain-computer-interface, humanoid robotics.
Writing
Media
Contact
Permissionless III: Restaking Beyond Ethereum
Into the Ether: Market Watch x Wallstreet Journal
Grayscale Summit: Deep Dive Into Sushi
Stanford Business School: Sushiswap
etc…
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