Luke Xie is the Co-Founder and CEO of SatLayer. Prior to SatLayer, Luke co-founded Press Start Capital, pioneer of the pre-accelerator fellowship, writing first checks into leading projects including aPriori, Primodium, Zerodev, and a first round investor in Monad. He also cofounded the MIT x Harvard Blockchain Accelerator and BeaverBlock, the MIT crypto alumni community. Before working in crypto and blockchain, he worked at a variety of startups including Airbnb as well as ones in consumer hardware (largest Kickstarter hardware campaign) and electric vehicles. Luke is an alumnus of MIT, where he received an SB in finance and entrepreneurship.