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Max Novendstern
Founder and CEO at Mana and Worldcoin
Max Novendstern, Co-Founder of Worldcoin
Max Novendstern is the co-founder and former CEO of Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that uses iris biometrics to authenticate users online.134 He co-founded Worldcoin in 2019 alongside Sam Altman and Alex Blania.34
Some key facts about Max Novendstern:
- He left Worldcoin in 2021 to start a new venture called Mana, which aims to build an "AI venture capitalist that will run autonomously on-chain"2
- Prior to Worldcoin, he worked as an Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates and in Finance at Wave Mobile Money in East Africa
- He has a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University
- His LinkedIn username is maxnovendstern
Worldcoin has accumulated $250 million in funding from venture capital firms since its founding.4 The project hopes to provide a reliable way to authenticate humans online with its "World ID" and incentivize sign-ups by distributing its WLD tokens.34
Highlights
Nov 14 · twitter
They say “fight or flight” like it’s symmetrical
No. It’s almost always — always — better to fight
Apr 26 · fintechmagazine.com
Worldcoin: Altman's Crypto Vision Unveiled | FinTech Magazine
Aug 8 · techhq.com
Worldcoin down but not out - TechHQ
Oct 28 · Financial Post
Mastercard makes big move into crypto, plus an iris scanning company with universal ambitions - Financial Post
Oct 23 · Yahoo Finance
A new cryptocurrency called worldcoin wants to scan 1 billion people's iris by 2023 to speed up digital currency adoption - Yahoo Finance
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Founder and CEO at Mana since March 2022
Founder and former CEO at Worldcoin; Finance at Wave Mobile Money; Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates
Education
B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
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