As 2021 comes to a close, I wanted to share my experience joining a crypto start-up ✨January 2021: Four years in at IBM on their crypto-focused team, I begin looking for new opportunities. March 2021: I join Blockdaemon's ~30-person team as the first sales hire under our fearless leader, Demo Skalkotos, whom I met while working at IBM. At the time, Blockdaemon had raised $5.5M since inception in 2017 through multiple seed and venture rounds. I get to know my new teammates virtually and i...