This guy won a gold medal in Physics Olympiad, then built a $40 billion exchange with 11 people (zero VC money) > raised in Palo Alto, California > physics genius since childhood > 2013: wins gold medal at International Physics Olympiad > goes to Harvard, studies math & computer science > graduates, joins Hudson River Trading > builds high-frequency trading systems processing thousands of trades per second > 2018: leaves Wall Street for crypto > tries to build a prediction market > fails > pivots to trading, spots massive inefficiencies > 2020: founds Chameleon Trading > becomes one of the largest crypto market makers > November 2022: FTX collapses > sees the problem: centralized exchanges can't be trusted > decides to build his own decentralized exchange > 2023: launches Hyperliquid > no VC funding, no marketing budget, no KOL partnerships > just 10 engineers > within 100 days: $1 billion daily volume > 2024: airdrops 31% of tokens directly to users > zero tokens to VCs > 2025: processes $2 trillion+ in volume > $1.24 billion annualized revenue > 11 employees > that's $113 million per employee > now competing with Binance This guy is Jeff Yan, CEO and Founder of Hyperliquid. He is literally one of the smartest founders in crypto i've seen.