Dylan Steck

As a kid I had a few blogs I wanted to customize, and that led me to learn coding online. The more I learned about programming and the world of tech, the more I was hooked to the idea of anyone anywhere being able to build anything.

In high school I started becoming interested in why desktops still work the way they do, which led me to start working on Cortex Cortex, rethinking the desktop around tasks that connect directly to your data instead of apps in separate windows.

When I got to college I had been building apps already and knew that's what I wanted to spend my time doing. I fortunately got down the crypto rabbit hole at the right time, found out and got super passionate about Farcaster, and through a series of internships and projects dove head first into the space. Around the time I had helped out with FarCon LA and was doing work at Neynar, I dropped out of college to keep pursuing this dream.

Now I work on Base app at Base, where I help figure out how all our onchain legos can fit together so we can bring more people onchain. In my free time, I'm exploring what interfaces for agentic coding and work will look like.