Howard Xu is cofounder at Ancient8, a DAO that develops the infrastructure layer for GameFi, focusing on community and software. He was previously a VC investor at Insight Partners and TCV, as well as an operator at Magic Leap, one of the first Metaverse companies. Howard started his blockchain journey in 2017 as a VC investor at ZhenFund (Huobi, Ankr, Amber Group, IOST, DDEX, etc). Howard is a serial entrepreneur and has previously built startups in FinTech and SaaS.