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Ali Yahya

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Ali Yahya is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Before a16z, he was a software engineer and machine learning researcher at Google X and Google Brain, where he worked on learning algorithms for robotic manipulation and on Google’s open source machine learning library, TensorFlow.

Ali discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 as a computer science undergraduate at Stanford University. He became fascinated by the implications and went down the rabbit hole. While at Stanford, Ali did research with Professors David Mazieres, Nick McKeown, and David Cheriton at the intersection of computer security, networking, and distributed systems.

Latest Posts

16 Minutes on the News #49: U.S. Government Hacked; Scaling Ethereum

by Joel de la Garza, Ali Yahya, Zoran Basich, and Sonal Chokshi
  • cloud computing
  • cryptocurrencies & blockchains
  • news
  • security & privacy
  • 16 Minutes
  • apparently our stuff is 16 (or multiples of 16!)
  • hacked!

The Long-Tail Problem in AI, and How Autonomous Markets Can Solve It

by Ali Yahya
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • cryptocurrencies & blockchains
  • marketplaces
  • network effects
  • tweetstormed!

a16z Podcast: What the Narrow Waist of the Internet Means for Innovation Today

by Martin Casado and Ali Yahya
  • cryptocurrencies & blockchains
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • networking
  • how innovation happens
  • network effects
  • on the economics of AI/ML & data businesses
  • web infrastructure

Web 3.0 and the Future of Trust

by Ali Yahya
  • cryptocurrencies & blockchains
  • disruption theory & practice
  • how innovation happens
  • endings... and beginnings
  • our Summit events

From ali01

Scott Kupor@skupor

What if a silver lining of COVID is that geographic constraints around entrepreneurship, job creation and economic development are relaxed or eliminated altogether? https://t.co/EyZJg35qxr

Ali Yahya@ali01

Congrats @noor_siddiqui_ and team! Great to see Orchid becoming real 🚀 https://t.co/6onmj2CsTk

Ali Yahya@ali01

Congrats @leanthebean and team! Very exciting. https://t.co/hm2Tp5gtgQ

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