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Baek Kyoum Kim is Hashed's General Partner and Syndicate Protocol's DAO Founding Investor. Kim is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in IoT and robotics. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services and was a founding member of a last-mile logistics startup. Furthermore, Kim is a former Bank of America and Google Lunar XPrize alumnus and holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
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