Startup Grind Shenzhen is hosting Howard Wu, the co-founder of Dekrypt Capital on January 9th, 2018. He graduated from Berkeley with degrees in Math and Computer Science. He works with the co-founder of Zcash. He got involved in bitcoin in 2011, it was then only 35 US Dollars. Let's chat with him about all the crazy adventures in the evolution of blockchain.

 

Howard Wu is the co-founder of Dekrypt Capital, the premier blockchain investment firm for privacy-preserving protocols and early-stage ventures. Howard first became involved with Bitcoin in 2011 and contributed to cryptographic libraries used in Ethereum and Zcash. He serves as Advisor to Blockchain at Berkeley, the first university ecosystem for blockchain, and is an active researcher in Theoretical Computer Science and Computer Security, working with Professor Alessandro Chiesa, co-founder of Zcash, and Professor Dawn Song, faculty member of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3). Howard is an M.S. candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

18:30-19:00 Sign-in
19:00-19:15 Welcome Drink & Mingle & Opening Intro
19:15-20:15 Fireside chat with Howard Wu
20:15-21:30 Networking