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    Adrian Scott

    Adrian Scott

    Founder/CEO, Soma Capital (algo/stats/crypto); past Founder/Developer, Social Networking Pioneer, @ryze; Founding Investor, @napster; PhD Math Rensselaer at age 20

    CEO San Francisco Rensselaer Polytechni...
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    Experience
    Coderbuddy
    Coderbuddy
    Founder
    Ryze
    Ryze
    Founder
    Soma Capital (hedge fund)
    Soma Capital (hedge fund)
    Founder
    Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard
    Employee
    Charles Schwab and Company
    Charles Schwab and Company
    Employee
    Bank of America
    Bank of America
    Employee
    Starmine
    Exit
    Starmine
    Advisor
    Magnitude.io
    Magnitude.io
    Advisor
    Legitmix
    Legitmix
    Board Member
    Freedom Stack
    Freedom Stack
    Founder, CEO 2018 - Present (about 8 years)
    Founder
    Coderbuddy, Ryze, Freedom Stack, Soma Capital (hedge fund)
    Employee
    Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, Charles Schwab and Company
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Starmine, Magnitude.io
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
    Legitmix
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Pioneered Social Networking, founding & coding Ryze, the big influence on Friendster, which in turn influenced Facebook. Founding investor in Napster. Math Ph.D. at age 20 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with focus on nonlinear optimization. Have helped multiple startups turnaround performance, have helped rebuild dev teams and product, have developed and coded advanced, scalable architectures, have helped sales go from flat to 6X year-over-year growth.

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    Skills
    Java Javascript Python Node.js HTML MySQL MongoDB Git PHP Linux Amazon Web Services Google App Engine Perl Bootstrap A/B Testing Analytics & Reporting Android React Native
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