We thank Mo Shaikh for being the CEO of Aptos and Co-Founding this major startup with Dr. Avery Ching. Mo will be moving into and advisor role at Aptos and we wish him the very best going forward !
The following is an excerpt about Mo that I wrote in an article on X entitled “Exploring Aptos: The Founding Team Behind Aptos”
Aptos CEO Mo Shaikh has been in the blockchain industry since at least 2017, if not earlier. His previous professional experience is varied and extends from banking to real estate, investments, consulting, partnerships, advising and most recently blockchain. Mo and the Aptos team have been building the Aptos blockchain for 4 years before it was launched. The project was known before as the Libra/Diem project which had a wallet named Novi (Meta’s shutting down its digital wallet, Novi - The Verge).
An article from the New York times from 2018 entitled “A Blockchain Building in Bushwick” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/realestate/a-blockchain-building-in-bushwick.html) (saved: A Blockchain Building in Bushwick - The New York Times) talks about Mo and his company Meridio (Consensys Blog: Ethereum Blockchain News, Insights, Product Updates, Events, and Resources | Consensys) which was based out of Brooklyn and had as its goal to introduce blockchain technology to the real estate market. Meridio itself is a project of Consensys (https://consensys.io/) which is a private blockchain software company based in New York. After this work, Mo eventually went on to focus on the precursor to Aptos which was Meta’s Diem (Diem (digital currency) - Wikipedia) and Novi (Welcome to Novi | Meta) projects.
After the work in these projects was halted due to changes in the regulatory landscape, the work on Aptos was established utilizing the open source Diem technology along with the Move programming language which was designed at Meta. Some of the more well known VC firms invested in Aptos such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Investments Listed From A to Z | a16z), Binance Labs (Binance Labs Boosts Strategic Investment in Aptos Labs to Expand Commitment to Infrastructure Building | Binance Blog), Multicoin Capital (Multicoin Capital: Move Move Move), Katie Haun (Katie Haun Launches Haun Ventures Crypto Fund | WIRED), to name a few.
The following are some of the video interviews and appearances that Mo has done in the past couple of years since the introduction of Aptos as a new contending blockchain in the ever growing blockchain industry.
This Facebook Veteran Is Building A Blockchain For All By Embracing Diverse Identities | Forbes
Nov 18, 2022
Can Aptos Survive The FTX Crash? | Mo Shaikh
Dec 28, 2022
Is This Layer-1 the Future of Web3? w/ Raoul Pal & Mo Shaikh
May 9, 2023
Aptos: Using Google Cloud for a reliable, scalable infrastructure to redefine the Web3 experience
Jun 2, 2023
Aptos Labs CEO Mo Shaikh on L1 Blockchain
New York Stock Exchange
Feb 29, 2024
Fireside Chat with Mo Shaikh (Aptos Labs) and Stani Kulechov (Avara) | Aptos DeFi Days Summit 2024
Apr 17, 2024
You can read more about the entire Aptos Founding Team in the following article on X dot com:
