Muneeb Ali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Trust Machines, a company building the largest ecosystem of Bitcoin apps. He is also the co-creator of Stacks, a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts. He has raised over 200M USD in funding from investors like Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Breyer Capital, and more. Muneeb received his Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science from Princeton University, where his Ph.D. thesis was nominated for the ACM SIGCOMM dissertation award. Muneeb gives guest lectures on Bitcoin at Princeton and his research publications have over 1,900 citations. He is one of the main characters in the book Life After Google and was a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley.