SandeepNailwal氏

Sandeep Nailwal is one of the founders of the Polygon network and currently serves as the executive chairman of Polygon Labs, an international software development company that builds blockchain scaling infrastructure. In this capacity, he works closely with Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs to steward the continued growth of the Polygon ecosystem. He is widely considered as one of the best business masterminds in Web3 and has been included in the top 10 most influential people in crypto by various publications. Sandeep has played a key role in growing the Polygon protocol into a leading blockchain network and a vibrant ecosystem that is home to some of the biggest Web3 projects and global companies alike. A serial entrepreneur, Sandeep holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering. He has worked as a consultant at Deloitte and served as the chief technology and supply chain officer at Welspun Group’s e-commerce division. All the while, Sandeep continued his involvement in the startup world, working part-time on half a dozen companies. In 2016, he launched ScopeWeaver with the intention of building the Alibaba of white-collar services. But then he caught the crypto bug. Sandeep first learned about Bitcoin in 2013, eventually becoming an investor and a prominent member of the local community as an admin on a popular Bitcoin forum. But the real turning point came when he coded his first Ethereum dApp. Within two weeks, he decided to shut down ScopeWeaver and focus on learning about this technology full time. In late 2017, Sandeep, Jaynti and Anurag started Matic Network with a vision of scaling Ethereum using Plasma technology. Sandeep helmed business operations, while Jaynti and Anurag focused on the product. They were joined by Mihailo Bjelic in 2021 and rebranded as Polygon. Born in Nainital, a small Indian town in Himalayan foothills, Sandeep spent the first five years of his life blissfully unaware of the family’s position near the bottom of the social pyramid. The dawning realization came when he learned that the palatial mansion he used to play in belonged to a local aristocrat and his grandfather had been just one of the servants. For many years, the memories of that house served as fuel for his ambition and a benchmark for what was possible in this world. At the age of 12, Sandeep amused relatives by passionately insisting that one day he will build the next Facebook. That same year he started his first business: tutoring his younger classmates. He handed over $4 a month in earnings to his family, no small contribution given the household’s modest finances. Sandeep describes himself as extremely humble, but madly ambitious.