Max Skibinsky
Max Skibinsky is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and startup mentor. Most recently, Max was an investment partner with Andreessen Horowitz, where he focused on enterprise security and bitcoin and deals with Tanium, TradeBlock, and Digital Ocean. In addition to co-founding Vault12, Max leads the R&D team. Before that Max was the founder and CEO of Hive7, a social entertainment company that became part of The Walt Disney Company. In 2003, Max joined the newly formed Voltage Security, an encryption startup incubated at Stanford University, where he architected and designed an Identity-Based Encryption messaging system that was showcased at DEMO '04. Voltage was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2015. Max has also advised and invested in many startups graduating from Y Combinator including Eligible, Transcriptic, and ZenPayroll. Max graduated with a masters' degree in theoretical and mathematical physics from Moscow State University.
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Generate a Seed Phrase using Dice.
Detailed steps to generate your seed phrase using 20-sided dice to ensure randomness.
Generate a Seed Phrase using a calculator.
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Vault12 White Paper - M. Skibinsky, Y. Dodis, T. Spies, W. Ahmad (2018). "Decentralized Storage of Crypto Assets via Hierarchical Shamir's Secret Sharing"
M. Skibinsky, Y. Dodis, T. Spies, W. Ahmad (2018). "Decentralized Storage of Crypto Assets via Hierarchical Shamir's Secret Sharing"