Brian Shultz
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Co-Founder • Engineering, Product, AI
California, United States
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Jobs
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Co-Founder • EPDTangoJan 2020 - Current (6 years 8 months)Tango automatically documents your team's workflows so that new hires and AI agents know exactly how work gets done. Millions of workflows captured. NPS of 89. I lead Engineering, Product, and Design, working side-by-side with an infectiously curious and talented team. I spend half my time paired with an engineer/designer to work on ambitious bets or obsess over solving our most impossible problems.- Angel Investor + AdvisorstartupsJan 2020 - Current (6 years 8 months)Advise and invest in the companies of a few brilliant friends: • tldraw • The most delightful (and viral) infinite canvas product. • MintMCP • MCP gateway and agent governance. • Stately AI • Build reliable AI agents with state machines. • Campsite (acq. by Notion) • All-in-one productivity suite for product teams.
- Co-Founder, CTOKnowledge BerriesMar 2017 - Apr 2019 (2 years 2 months)
- AnalystAnalysis GroupJul 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 8 months)Data analytics consulting.
- InternSusa VenturesJan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)Intern for Susa's first $25M fund.
Education
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- Bachelor of Arts (BA, Computer Science and MathematicsColumbia University• Magna Cum Laude • Distinction for Academic Excellence, Computer Science • Departmental Honors, Mathematics for Senior Thesis: Mitigating Blockchain Fork Attacks
- Master of Business Administration (M.B.AHarvard Business SchoolDropped out with my co-founders to start Tango
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- Magna Cum LaudeColumbia University in the City of New York
- DDepartmental Honors in Mathematics for Senior Thesis on Blockchain Fork AttacksDepartment of Mathematics Columbia UniversityCertification of Witness: Mitigating Blockchain Fork Attacks Abstract: Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that maintains a published time-ordered record of transactions, termed the blockchain. Bitcoin’s novelty stems from its decentralized system of payments that operates without the need for a third party institution. Although celebrated for its decentralization, we show that the protocol incentivizes centralization through mining pools. Such centralization coupled with malicious schemes such as Selfish Mining, which financially incentivizes withholding solutions to blocks, leave the protocol vulnerable to attack. In order to mitigate these vulnerabilities, we identify the roots of their cause: block races and blockchain forks, and propo
- DCertificate of Distinction for Academic Excellence, Department of Computer ScienceDepartment of Computer Science Columbia UniversityAwarded to the top 16 computer science students.