Christian Catalini

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Christian Catalini is a tech founder with roots in academia. He obsesses over the moment before the rules are written—the messy, pre-consensus phase—from crypto to AI. He’s usually early—founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab—and he takes big swings—from seeding a generation of MIT builders with Bitcoin in 2014 to co-creating Libra. After co-founding Lightspark, he’s reset for one last meaningful swing before AGI does the rest. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (Rotman School of Management), and MSc (summa cum laude) in Economics and Management of New Technologies from Bocconi University, Milan. Christian’s research has been featured in Nature, Science, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, WIRED, NPR, Forbes, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, VICE news and the Washington Post among others. Christian has presented his work at a variety of institutions including Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, London Business School, New York University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the Federal Reserve Bank, the US Treasury, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the World Ban

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