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type: entity
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entity_type: person
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name: "Advaith Sekharan"
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domain: internet-finance
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status: active
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role: "Founding Engineer at MetaDAO"
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tracked_by: rio
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created: 2026-03-11
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# Advaith Sekharan
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## Overview
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Advaith Sekharan is a founding engineer at MetaDAO, hired in October 2024 with $180,000 annual salary and 237 META tokens (1% of supply). His compensation includes performance-based token unlocks tied to market cap milestones, with full unlock at $5B market cap and a 4-year vesting period starting November 2024.
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## Timeline
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- **2024-10-22** — [[metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan]] proposed: $180K salary + 237 META tokens with performance vesting
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- **2024-10-26** — Hiring proposal passed; joined as founding engineer with retroactive salary from October 16
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## Relationship to KB
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- [[metadao]] — founding engineer
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- Part of MetaDAO's San Francisco core team buildout per Fundraise #2 strategy
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## Links
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- [GitHub](https://github.com/advaith101)
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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/advaith-sekharan-78b52b277/) |