Arianna Simpson put essentially all of her savings into Bitcoin at age 22 after witnessing hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, then taught herself from the Bitcoin white paper and moved into crypto full-time, spending over a decade focused solely on the space through multiple boom-and-bust cycles. She founded Autonomous Partners, an early dedicated crypto fund, after being among the first employees at BitGo (employee #3) when her technical blog post on multisignature wallets caught the founders' attention, showing a pattern of creating new roles at the frontier of emerging categories rather than joining existing platforms. Arianna Simpson put essentially all of her savings into Bitcoin at age 22 after witnessing hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, then taught herself from the Bitcoin white paper and moved into crypto full-time, spending over a decade focused solely on the space through multiple boom-and-bust cycles. She founded Autonomous Partners, an early dedicated crypto fund, after being among the first employees at BitGo (employee #3) when her technical blog post on multisignature wallets caught the founders' attention, showing a pattern of creating new roles at the frontier of emerging categories rather than joining existing platforms.