Robert witheridge

When asked what led to him to working with Chainlink Labs as Chief Scientist, Ari Juels replied: “I particularly appreciate the seriousness with which Chainlink takes academic research” “Chainlink strikes what I think is a good balance between meeting the urgent needs of customers and investing in the critical, but all too easy to put off til tomorrow, need for innovation” Chainlink to me is very similar to Elon’s companies where they have huge long term aspirations like intelligent humanoid robots and getting to Mars while pragmatically introducing products in the near term as stepping stones for the long term For example, Tesla first produced the Roadster which led to being able to create Model S and then kept snowballing capital into new products up until today with the Cybercab and Optimus Chainlink has done a similar thing where they started with Price Feeds which established the Chainlink Standard, then went on to create VRF & Automation, and jumping to recent history, CCIP (the most secure, scalable cross-chain infrastructure), CRE (a unified runtime environment serving as onchain finance’s orchestration layer) and Chainlink Confidential Compute (the Chainlink privacy standard) At the same time Chainlink has been strategically working on the long term goal, collaborating and partnering with TradFi institutions & infrastructure like Swift for many years to establish a single standard the future of global finance can run on Huge props to Sergey, Ari and the hundreds of other employees for the pragmatic yet visionary approach they have taken to bring the world onchain