Where does Elena Nadolinski work?

Elena Nadolinski is Founder of Iron Fish and PM, Base at Bison Trails.

Where did Elena Nadolinski go to school?

Elena Nadolinski studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (BS, Computer Science).

Elena Nadolinski

InvestorFounder

PM, Base at Bison Trails · Founder at Iron Fish

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedIron Fish

30 Under 30 2022 · Finance

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333 people in our graph share verified history with Elena — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Ken ChenaultunlockedElena: together at Airbnb (2018)

×5Elena: together at Airbnb

×2Elena: together at Tilt.com

×4Elena: together at Coinbase

About

Elena Nadolinski founded Iron Fish in 2018 and currently also works as a product manager on Base at Coinbase. She previously wrote software at Airbnb, Tilt.com, and Microsoft, where she also interned earlier in her career.

Founder at Iron Fish

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Iron Fish's investors · 5

A.Capital VenturesSan Francisco a16z cryptoMenlo Park Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2021 Electric CapitalPalo Alto · $1M – $20M checks LemniscapGeorge Town

Experience

CoinbasePM, Basecurrent2025 — present
Iron FishInstigator (Founder/CEO)current2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
AirbnbSoftware Engineer2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
Tilt.comSoftware Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco, CA
MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2015 — 2016Bellevue, WA
MicrosoftSoftware Developer Internship2014Redmond, WA
HeyoSoftware Developer Internship2013 — 2014Blacksburg, VA
MicrosoftSoftware Developer Internship2013Redmond, WA
Rackspace HostingSoftware Developer Internship2012 — 2013Blacksburg, VA
MicrosoftSoftware Developer Internship2012Redmond, Washington

Skills & more

Algorithms5Data Structures4C#4C++12Java16Computer Science7C5Git4HTML13JavaScript8CSS4Eclipse7

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RESTProgrammingPythonSQLPerl

Languages Russian

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Colleagues at Bison Trails

Aklil Ibssa

Investor at Coinbase Ventures

Alesia Haas

CFO at Coinbase Ventures

Alfonso Bauzá de Mirabó Vidal

Co-Founder & COO at Vega

Antonio Garcia-Martinez

Founder/CEO at AdGrok

Brandon Myint

Investor at Coinbase Ventures

Brian Armstrong

Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase

Brian Foster

Director, Coinbase Prime & Coinbase Ventures at Coinbase Ventures

Catherine Ferdon

Angel at First Round Capital

Frequently asked questions

Who is Elena Nadolinski?: Elena Nadolinski founded Iron Fish in 2018 and currently also works as a product manager on Base at Coinbase. She previously wrote software at Airbnb, Tilt.com, and Microsoft, where she also interned earlier in her career.
Where does Elena Nadolinski work?: Elena Nadolinski is Founder of Iron Fish and PM, Base at Bison Trails.
What companies did Elena Nadolinski found?: Elena Nadolinski founded Iron Fish.
Where did Elena Nadolinski go to school?: Elena Nadolinski studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (BS, Computer Science).

Founder mafias

Airbnb mafia123

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Brian ArmstrongSoftware EngineerFounded Coinbase +1 Khaled HusseinPayments Product LeadFounded Tilt +2 Honghao DengUX Research ScientistFounded Butlr +2 James J BesharaDirector, ProductFounded Tilt +1 Shervin PishevarInvestorFounded Freetelly +1 Leah CulverSenior iOS EngineerFounded Breaker +1

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Coinbase mafia93

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Balaji SrinivasanCTOFounded Counsyl +1 Fred EhrsamCo-founderFounded Nudge Brian ArmstrongCo-founder & CEOFounded NewLimit Kuberan MarimuthuEngineeringFounded Hashcube +2 Surojit ChatterjeeChief Product OfficerFounded Ema +1 Rob WitoffChief Technology OfficerFounded Chalktalk +1

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Bison Trails mafia11

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Fred EhrsamBoard Of DirectorsFounded Nudge +1 Brian ArmstrongCEO & Co-FounderFounded Coinbase +1 Rob WitoffChief Technology OfficerFounded Chalktalk +1 Dannie ChuSr Director, Head of Growth EngineeringFounded Makersplace +1 Dayton ThorpeSenior Data ScientistFounded Mercator Travis BloomSenior Engineering ManagerFounded Pawlicy Advisor

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Same school

Also attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University229

Rashad AssirContent at Redpoint Ventures Joseph RuscioI build scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.Tim GuleriInvestor at Sierra Ventures Curry RobertsPresident, Fredericksburg Regional Alliance at Riphean Investments Ryan LawrenceDirector, Tax at JMI Equity Samantha MoskettiSenior Manager, Knowledge Sharing at JMI Equity

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Shared employers

Also worked at Iron Fish1

Brian AvelloChief Legal Officer at UDHC

Also worked at Airbnb211

Alfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital Hans TungManaging Partner at Notable Capital Brian CheskyCo-founder & CEO of Airbnb Joe GebbiaCo-founder of Airbnb Nathan BlecharczykCo-founder & CSO of Airbnb Brian ArmstrongCo-founder & CEO of Coinbase

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Also worked at Tilt.com16

Raoul Oscar FianoInvestor at DN Capital Sam BakerInvestor Relations at Scale Venture Partners Toni AlejandriaEvents + Community at Rackhouse Venture Management Lp Mike DuboePartner at Greylock Partners Nick DaleySenior Associate at Fin Capital Ghazaleh GhodratiChief of Staff at SDCL Green Energy Solutions Europe

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Also worked at Microsoft2,000

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock Garry TanPresident & CEO of Y Combinator Nat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDG Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AI Bill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft; Chair of the Gates Foundation Mike KriegerCo-founder of Instagram; Chief Product Officer at Anthropic

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