Tom Schmidt is a General Partner at Dragonfly who brings over a decade of crypto experience starting from mining Dogecoin at Stanford in 2012, combined with product leadership roles at 0x, Facebook, and Instagram. He focuses on backing application-layer projects with real user adoption and sustainable business models, emphasizing practical go-to-market strategies over rigid investment theses, while maintaining deep technical knowledge of DeFi mechanics like liquidations and protocol design. Tom Schmidt is a General Partner at Dragonfly who brings over a decade of crypto experience starting from mining Dogecoin at Stanford in 2012, combined with product leadership roles at 0x, Facebook, and Instagram. He focuses on backing application-layer projects with real user adoption and sustainable business models, emphasizing practical go-to-market strategies over rigid investment theses, while maintaining deep technical knowledge of DeFi mechanics like liquidations and protocol design.