Ed Roman

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I'm a lifelong entrepreneur and investor.

I co-founded a venture capital firm named Hack VC, which focuses on web3, crypto, and AI with $700m+ in assets under management.

I also founded hack.summit(), a virtual event series for developers. Over 135,000 developers have attended these events over 10+ years, while raising significant money for non-profits.

I've also been a long-time investor in AI, SaaS, Open Source, and Marketplaces. This was done via several venture capital funds I managed, as well as a syndicate on AngelList.

I was CEO of HackHands, a marketplace of developers that accelerated developer productivity via realtime mentoring. I sold HackHands to Pluralsight which is a developer education platform. I then served as a board observer of Pluralsight, and led innovation for them. This led into the eventual multi-billion dollar IPO of Pluralsight. Pluralsight was later taken private for $3.5B.

I was founder & CEO of Ghostfire Games. Our game Rage of the Gladiator won critical acclaim as a top-rated Wii title. It's available on Nintendo 3DS, Android, and won a game-of-the-year award for iPhone/iPad.

I created the world's largest Java community (450k members), TheServerSide (acquired by Precise Software), and wrote a best-selling book on Java, Mastering EJB.