HOLD ON FOR DEAR LIFE
Three founders. Thirty million dollars. One crash that changed everything.
ANNELISE OSBORNE
Annelise Osborne is a seasoned executive who has spent her career at the intersection of traditional finance and the emerging crypto world — working across New York, London, and Kyiv, sitting in the rooms where billion-dollar decisions were made and watching the industry she loved nearly destroy itself in 2018.
Born in Finland and raised on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, Annelise holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from The College of William and Mary. She lives in Connecticut with her three boys and rescue pups.
After more than a decade in traditional finance she moved to the startup world when she recognized what blockchain technology could do for capital markets. She became a C-suite executive, board advisor, thought leader, and university lecturer — appearing on major panels and podcasts worldwide including Consensus 2024, the Blockchain Futurist Conference, the Real-World Asset Summit in New York, and the Anthony Pompliano Podcast.
Her first book — From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance — was published in June 2024 and featured on a16z Crypto's summer reading list. It was endorsed by the former Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Hold On for Dear Life is her debut novel. She could have written a memoir about what she witnessed during the 2017 boom and the 2018 crash. She chose fiction instead — because fiction can tell the truth a memoir can't.
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