Adam is a co-founder of Standard Crypto, a venture capital firm with elite company-building experience and deep-rooted expertise in crypto. He has been actively investing in crypto for a decade, and was previously the youngest-ever partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he led the blockchain and crypto investing. The firm was founded in 2019, and portfolio companies include Aave, Binance, Farcaster, Gauntlet, Limit Break, Mysten, Offchain Labs, Polygon, OpenSea, SynFutures, and Telegram. Previously, Adam studied math and cryptography at UC Berkeley in lieu of middle school and graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science.