Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996.

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpakman/">David</a> is a CS major who worked in Apple’s music group in the 90s and went on to become CEO of eMusic in the aughts. </p><p>At <a href="https://www.venrock.com/">Venrock</a>, David invested in early-stage crypto, consumer, and enterprise tech companies. He was early to crypto as a node maintainer on the Bitcoin blockchain and an Ethereum miner, setting up a rig in his basement several years ago.</p><p>At <a href="https://www.coinfund.io/">CoinFund</a>, he focuses on early- and growth-stage crypto and blockchain companies and technologies like <a href="https://app.upshot.xyz/">Upshot</a>, a platform for crowdsourced NFT appraisals, and <a href="https://rarible.com/">Rarible</a>, a digital art NFT platform.</p><p>ICYMI: Listen to our episode <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/11/05/podcast-390-web3-wont-save-us/">Web3 won’t save us</a>.</p><p>This week’s Lifeboat badge goes to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/9482543/m-m">M-M</a> for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49270277/find-the-area-of-an-n-interesting-polygon">Find the area of an n-interesting polygon</a>.</p>