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Yida Gao is an MIT-trained mathematician and computer science graduate who left Stanford's MBA program in 2017 to pursue crypto investing full-time, later founding Shima Capital where he has made over 185 early-stage investments in under two years. He teaches MIT's Crypto Finance course and systematically sources deals from universities and incubators to find underdog projects before they become widely known. Yida Gao is an MIT-trained mathematician and computer science graduate who left Stanford's MBA program in 2017 to pursue crypto investing full-time, later founding Shima Capital where he has made over 185 early-stage investments in under two years. He teaches MIT's Crypto Finance course and systematically sources deals from universities and incubators to find underdog projects before they become widely known.
