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“Sometimes I feel like I’m running the X-Men Academy,” says Matt Huang, describing his $12 billion crypto investment firm Paradigm as a place for brilliant mutants who possess unusual powers. Take Charlie Noyes, the firm’s first hire. A 19-year-old MIT dropout who couldn’t operate a calendar, he rolled into his first 10am meeting five hours late, completely unapologetic; he’s now a general partner. Or Georgios Konstantopoulos, Paradigm’s CTO, who transformed from a World of Warcraft addict into one of crypto’s most prolific engineers. Or the developer known only by his X handle, transmissions11, whom Paradigm discovered on a Discord server while the anon was still in high school. “They create an absurd amount of chaos sometimes and you want to pull your hair out,” Huang says. “But then you see what they can do and it’s like, holy crap. Nobody else in the world could do that.” On the chilly morning I visited Paradigm in San Francisco, two of Huang’s team were working on a mechanism that

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