who has been the most important mentor you've had in your life?

Have never had "mentor". My parents and my wife are the most impactful in shaping who I am.

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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I’m always skeptical when men say their wives shaped who they are.

Did she affect who you are professionally, or are we talking family man Dan?

Alright I was definitely an idiot two years ago. I think I’ve got life figured out now though.

I met her at 25. Huge impact on who I am as an adult.

My favourite statistic in this regard is on PhD dropouts. There’s a significant relation between being married and completing your PhD (not even counting relationships). This ties well to founders imo as as a PhD you are also likely to have limited time to engage in dating life. I witnessed first hand that it can have a significant positive impact on how you conduct research, and in what quality (subjective bias here though)