Founder-investor perspective at Robot Ventures. Deep expertise in DeFi, having built one of the most important DeFi protocols (Compound). Backs founders building foundational DeFi infrastructure.
DeFi infrastructure, lending and borrowing innovation, interest rate mechanisms, institutional DeFi adoption, real-world asset tokenization.
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Robert built Compound — he knows DeFi deeply. Skip the high-level pitch and go deep on protocol mechanics. Show you've thought through edge cases, liquidation scenarios, and oracle dependencies. He values pragmatic engineering over theoretical elegance.
DeFi lending will absorb most of traditional lending within a decade.
Algorithmic interest rates enable trustless lending at scale.
“DeFi will eat traditional finance, one protocol at a time.”
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“DeFi lending is still in its dial-up era. We have barely scratched the surface of what's possible.”
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Founder of Compound Finance, one of the pioneering DeFi lending protocols. Co-founded Robot Ventures with Tarun Chitra. Previously an economist. Built Compound into a multi-billion dollar protocol that defined the DeFi lending category.