Obviously too young to get a bank account, Ruskin did freelance development work he found on reddit in exchange for bitcoin. There he saw that Coinbase was hiring, and boldly sent the head of operations a cold email asking if he could work for the crypto exchange. 'Long story short, I ended up writing much of the early software that powered the Coinbase platform,' he tells TechCrunch. 'I didn't write the v0 codebase'but I did write a lot of software that brought us from 1 to 10.' After four years at Coinbase, Ruskin decided to go to college and then to law school. He started a few startups along the way, including an election security company where he drafted and won a patent on its technology. Ruskin, now 26, says Inventex wants to ease the process of preparing and filing patent applications by using a series of AI agents augmented by licensed attorneys. He believes that Inventex can help companies get patent-pending '10x faster' ' in days, rather than months that a traditional...
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