Did you know the CEO of LayerZero, Bryan Pellegrino, used to be a professional online poker player known as “PrimordialAA.” He has no Stanford diploma — just a sharp mind shaped by high-stakes Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em. Poker taught him how to make bold, high-risk decisions with incomplete information — a mindset he now applies to crypto. Before LayerZero, Bryan built bots, studied opponent strategies, and explored poker exploits. Today, he leads LayerZero: not a bridge, but messaging infrastructure for blockchains — like HTTP for Web3. It’s the invisible layer that powers hundreds of dApps, even if users don’t realize it.