Chandler Song is the co-founder and CEO of Ankr, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure platform. He was a student at UC Berkeley when introduced to Bitcoin in 2014. His previous interests in blockchain, quantitative finance, and AI all crystallized into a passion for the crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi) movement. Soon after graduating, Chandler was working as an AWS engineer when he had the first iteration of an idea for a platform that could provide the node infrastructure for blockchain-based systems in a novel way. He pitched this idea to the Ankr co-founders, and the platform went on to become an early success story in the blockchain industry. Chandler is an avid artist, Basketball fan, and advocate of decentralization.