Eric Diep

Eric Diep is a founder and CTO of A Thinking Ape, a top-grossing game developer on Apple and Google Play app stores since 2010. Eric has been working alongside co-founders Kenshi Arasaki and Wilkins Chung, and investors Naval Ravikant (Twitter, Uber), Bill Lee (Tesla, Space X), Jim Young and Y Combinator. In 2021, they became the founder of Manifold (a16z crypto, Initialized Capital), which creates NFT tools for the top 1% of NFT creators. Eric also leads RoyaltyRegistry.xyz, an open source NFT royalty platform built in collaboration with OpenSea, Coinbase, SuperRare and other leading NFT marketplaces.

Eric Diep is currently enrolled at the University of Waterloo, where they are studying Mathematics and Fine Arts.