Eric Siu shares his path from studying blockchain in college to working at a VC firm focused on crypto investments. He connected with Evan Gunseer, founder of Avalanche, while exploring that investment opportunity.
I was really fortunate to be in the presence of a lot of great computer science researchers, you know, looking at crypto and blockchain from an academic perspective. And so a lot of the faculty, computer science faculty, are working on kind of areas very related to crypto and blockchain. And so I was able to follow their work all throughout college. And then after I left university, my first job out of college was actually at a venture capital firm. So I worked at a place called JD Capital. I was working more or less on the blockchain and crypto side of things, solely investing in new blockchains and companies. I actually got just kind of got in touch with one of my professors. He's actually one of the founders of Avalanche. His name is Professor Evan Gunseer. At the time, we were actually interested in investing in Avalanche.
