Adrian Scott

Adrian Scott is Founder of Soma Capital, Math Ph.D. Nonlinear Optimization; Soma Capital; I code, mainly not here; Freedom Stack; Napster Founding Investor; Founder, pioneering social network Ryze.

I lead Soma Capital, a hedge fund focused on benefiting from volatile, liquid markets, that is, both market ups and downs. I'm particularly known as a founding investor in Napster, and founder of the pioneering social networking site Ryze back in the day. In the past I have helped build technology and social media companies with data feedback loops, with a focus on decentralized platforms, including blockchain. Math & Probability fanatic. Especially interested in risk-taking, uncertainty, fat tail distributions, and behavior and habit creation.

Founding investor in Napster, Founder of social networking pioneer Ryze.