Speaker Interview: Mo Shaikh Builder of Aptos l KBW2024

[Music] I think the most exciting feature of abos labs today putting throughput latency uh subsec latency High very high throughput the highest in the market um and very very low fees a thousand of a penny all together which is amazing as a feature is what uh what gets me the most excited are things like keyless for example keyless entry into web 3 makes it easy for anyone to be able to access web 3 and historically we haven't really had that opportunity for web3 because you had to manage a very clunky user experience with things like keyless Game Changer Game Changer and so you know you can have billions of people log into web 3 with their Gmail account with their Twitter account or Facebook account and I think that's really [Music] powerful I think I I I I gave you the answer on that one with my daughter and my wife um but I also love to play basketball and listen to hip-hop um so sometimes I'm lucky I get to play basketball with my daughter while I'm listening to hip-hop so uh that's that's the you know the multitasking dad in me my three favorite rappers that's easy Kendrick Lamar Jay-Z and [Music] Nas oo I mean I was a really deep science nerd and I loved biology and most specifically I love botany um and when I used I used to intern at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and my job there was to take pictures of photos uh pictures of flowers excuse me where I would have to understand how those flowers are are blooming based on climate conditions we had to write this research report um and today I still love to of course Garden in my home uh but hopefully one day I'll I'll be fortunate enough to uh to work on a farm uh at some point [Music] too man I I think the the day we launched the block the blockchain itself and went live was probably still the most memorable moment we were together with some of the earliest developers of this blockchain for fa inside of Facebook for you know we were building this for three and a half years there and then and one year outside of uh Facebook and so you know if you think about that it's close to five years of working to get up to this one day and if the blockchain goes live and those tokens are minted I mean that's kind of it you don't really get a second chance and so the amount of preparation and the dedication that our team had um I'll always be you know have having my memory but it couldn't it wasn't just me it was an amazing group of Engineers and uh folks working incredibly late nights uh to get to that point but that one night was a very magical night in [Music] October I mean I think everyone's favorite tech Gadget is the iPhone so that's kind of an easy one um I would say my superpower is probably trying to some people are trying to go away from using their laptop to the iPad to the phone I'm hoping that I can just do it all on my watch I'm getting very close to it um and if you just like you know get to the point where chat GPT is on my watch I think it'll be over right so I'm hoping the better technology gets the less devices we have and the more you can be connected with humans and use technology in a very positive way um and it kind of reminds me of you know crypto right you can start to trust web 3 trust you know the devices together and bring our bring ourselves back to this world that we're very you know obviously very lucky to be in together instead of like that the entire time [Music] so I mean there are a lot of things that people get wrong about apos labs they think we're a bunch of nerds just that just sit in Silicon Valley but I think we're really passionate and very caring people and so um when people end up meeting us I think they're very they're very happy they're enthusiastic and even Aptos means people in the Native American term uh uh the Native American language alone which is aloney and so um you know what people tend to get wrong about is actually what's what's our superpower it's really connecting with people and Building Technology for [Music] people I mean I would love to be a mind reader but I mean I don't know if that's a skill that I can Master since I need to First learn how to do it but I think being present in the moment is a skill that's you know lifelong to master um and being able to connect with you know whoever you're engaging with and I think those social fibers of society are you know a skill that I'll be trying to master for the rest of my life