Preethi Kasireddy left Wall Street to become a self-taught blockchain developer and later built DappCamp to teach others.
She sparked debate in 2024 by prioritizing parenting over self-discovery travel, showing her personal side beyond tech.
Preethi Kasireddy didn’t come from the computer world to begin with. She started her career as an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, then moved to Andreessen Horowitz, where she often sat down with promising startup founders. But sitting pretty as a venture partner wasn’t enough.
She wanted more, not in terms of position, but in terms of understanding. “How could I possibly know which projects were good if I didn’t even understand how they worked technically?” she said in an interview.
Rather than continuing the safe path, she decided to learn to code from scratch. From self-taught, then to Hack Reactor—a fairly well-known coding bootcamp. From there, the path to the crypto world was wide open. Coinbase was her next stop. There, s
