Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Swan

Yan is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin. He spent the last twenty years as an engineer and product and technology leader for early stage startups. In 2012, he was the co-founding CTO a Reverb.com, which was acquired by Etsy for $275M in 2019. While he was exposed to Bitcoin early in 2011, Yan didn't take it seriously until 2016, when he began to research it on a daily basis. By 2018, he decided that it was the most important thing he could be working on, and left Reverb to start consulting for Bitcoin related companies, prior to launching Swan together with Cory Klippsten in 2019. Yan is the author of the book Inventing Bitcoin, the best technical book for beginners.