Jake Ryan
CIO
at Tradecraft Capital
Jake Ryan is an author & CIO at Tradecraft Capital, a digital asset manager focused on the next long-wave economic cycle, the Age of Autonomy®. His first book, Crypto Investing in the Age of Autonomy, published by John Wiley & Sons, is a US News & World Report ‘Best 7 Book on Crypto Investing and DeFi.’
Jake is also an advisor to several VC-backed startups and was an advisor to two VC accelerators and a PE firm. He was a guest lecturer at Pepperdine University where they used his book as the textbook for their MBA in Data Analytics program. Prior to Tradecraft, he ran a specialized software engineering firm for 20 years.
Jake earned a Computer Science degree with a concentration in AI from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the 1st author of published work, applying AI to cybersecurity, which has 800+ Google Scholar citations.
Content & Articles by Jake Ryan
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos Health
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos Health, to...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...
Community-Led Growth for Startups: Why Most Communities Fail and How to Build One That Actually Works
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited Sam Jacobs — founder and CEO of Pavilion — to talk about community-led growth: what it actually means, why most communities...