Meemo is joining Coinbase to accelerate economic freedom in the world.
I’m truly excited to have our entire team at Meemo join Coinbase to contribute to its mission to increase economic freedom in the world.
My interest in cryptography and data analysis goes back to my Ph.D. studies where I created a link between secure multi-party computation and the processing of data streams. Since then, at Google and then Snap, I have built a career specializing on the processing and analysis of large-scale data, search ranking models and ML-powered recommendation systems, impacting billions of people around the world. At Coinbase, I’m thrilled to combine my technical passions with my recent experience. Our team will focus on dealing with the upcoming crypto asset explosion and making sense of this rapidly emerging and exciting space.
Coinbase is well-aware that the pursuit of increasing economic freedom in the world requires critical and deep investments in a data-centric culture at the company. As I highlighted recently, the BigTech know-how of working with data at massive scale and hyper-personalizing the consumer experience will inevitably permeate all of the fintech space; and become a new norm. That includes the crypto world. Therefore, I am particularly ecstatic to have learned that Coinbase has correctly invested in the right direction in its exciting journey to Data 3.0.
The Meemo team has seen firsthand the magical impact that proper processing and analysis of large-scale public data (as well as private data) yields. Today, our own data, although increasingly digitized, still remains siloed in many centralized repositories. The access interface is set by those harboring it. Blockchain technology, proven viable and versatile in a variety of decentralized applications today (cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, NFTs, and more broadly DeFi), will likely evolve to allow for decentralization of our own personal data where we finally control its access. I believe this process to be a paradigm shift in working with data at large scale.
My co-founders Wisam, Ranveer, Robson and I, as well as the entire Meemo team, feel very honored and eager to help shape this shift, and contribute to future data efforts at Coinbase. We bring deep expertise in the processing and analysis of large-scale data, from infrastructure to ML-powered ranking, with a fintech background and mindset.
Our upcoming journey feels eerily similar to embarking on building the future of the web at leading Internet companies in the mid-to-late 90s. Back then, the Internet was coming out of academia and was quite misunderstood, underappreciated, and even eventually hyped. Yet, the Internet proved itself revolutionary. We are all convinced that crypto technologies will yield a similarly impactful outcome in the coming years.
If you’re a data lover and get excited about working with large scale data engineering, data science, ranking and recommendation systems, machine learning, or more broadly artificial intelligence, in a new and rapidly expanding space like crypto, Coinbase is an ideal destination to help shape the future right now. If this is interesting to you, I encourage you to join us on this journey!
