Tom Howard
Venture Capitalist at network0
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Howard is a venture capitalist, founder, and product-focused operator with 11 years in crypto and fintech, obsessed with reinventing money and decentralized finance. He co-founded Taureon angel group, architected novel DAO-based exchange liquidation reserves as COO of PowerTrade, and led DeFi product initiatives like Mosendo’s gasless smart-wallets. Tom has raised institutional capital, negotiated nine-figure strategic partnerships, and brings hands-on product strategy experience from roles at CoinList and startups backed by YC and Andreessen Horowitz. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines early crypto investing since 2013 with practical product engineering instincts and a community-building track record through DeFi Nation and selective advising. Notably, he’s focused on making crypto derivatives approachable via mobile-first experiences, reflecting a pragmatic view formed across multiple boom-bust cycles.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, Vietnamese, Spanish, German
Github Skills (78)
cryptocurrency10
nano10
ethereum10
solidity9
crypto9
cryptography9
blockchain9
smooch8
api-ai8
nanocurrency7
whenever6
apollo6
cryptocurrencies6
finance6
bitcoin6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Power-Trade/fuel-dao
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
digital-engine/smooch-api-ai-bot
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 10 months
smoochapiapi-aipython
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