John Wu
President at Sureview Capital / Sego
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Wu is a seasoned technology and finance executive with 11+ years scaling disruptive tech businesses and a broader career spanning finance, venture, and crypto. As President of Ava Labs he helps drive Avalanche’s mission to digitize assets, and as founder of Sureview Capital/Sego he blends investment discipline with hands-on company building. He previously led SharesPost’s Digital Assets Group, executing one of the first compliant trades of tokenized securities, demonstrating both product and regulatory-first execution. Earlier roles in hedge funds and venture investing (including leading the BillMeLater round) reflect deep experience across tech, fintech, and capital markets. An active engineer at heart, he contributes full-stack improvements to open-source projects like Trustroots—focusing on UX, backend robustness, and security-minded username validation. Based in New York, he pairs an MBA from Harvard with a Cornell BS and a community-focused approach to education and local impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Dyson School Applied Economics and Business Management, BS Dyson School Applied Economics and Business Management at Cornell UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Harvard Business School
Chinese
Github Skills (12)
angularjs9
javascript9
html9
css9
nodejs8
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
expressjs7
api-design7
co7
apim7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Trustroots/trustroots
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Travellers' community for sharing, hosting and getting people together.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the user interface and backend functionality related to user profiles and messaging. Their work involved desensitizing username casing, adding the displayUsername field, and implementing pagination for the message module. They also addressed typos, made styling updates, and introduced stricter username validation rules, enhancing the overall user experience and platform security.
travelinghostingreacttrustrootshospitality
katsuroo/eBay-SDK
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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