Silicon Valley is now awash with stories of people riding seemingly ridiculous crypto investments like Dogecoin, a digital coin based on a dog meme, to life-changing wealth. That next big thing is crypto, they said, a catchall designation that includes digital currencies like Bitcoin and products like nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, that rely on the blockchain.
Carter is part of a wave of executives and engineers leaving cushy jobs at Google, Amazon, Apple and other large tech companies - some of which pay millions of dollars in annual compensation - to chase what they see as a once-in-a-generation opportunity. “The momentum we’re seeing in this space is just incredible.” The start-up sells website addresses that sit on the blockchain, the distributed ledger system that underpins cryptocurrencies. Within two days, she said, more than 350 people - many from the biggest internet companies - had clicked the link to apply for jobs at the firm, Unstoppable Domains.
She included a link for open positions at the start-up. When Sandy Carter left her job as a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing unit this month, she announced in a LinkedIn post that she was joining a crypto technology company.
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