Chris Bender
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I'm a founder living in San Francisco.
- 2022-now » Founder of Renegade. We're a Series A crypto company in the Presidio, building a decentralized dark pool.
- 2021-2022 » Trading and building. I was one of the first systematic traders on Kalshi, and I built the first ZK app on Solana mainnet.
- 2020-2021 » Reading and thinking. Cowen, Hanson, Vitalik, Thiel, Hayek, von Mises, Yudkowsky, TPOT.
- 2017-2020 » AI research and engineering. I was the president of my undergrad ML club, worked at Tesla Autopilot, and did research on generative models (e.g. ICLR paper)
- pre-2017 » Pure math. I was a math competition kid.
Get in touch: chris@renegade.fi or Twitter DMs.