Inventex founder, an engineer for Coinbase at 14, wants to revolutionize patent applications

Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.” 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. Frustrated with how “opaque” the patent process was, Ruskin in December 2024 launched a new Salt Lake City-b ... Read full article.