“They create an absurd amount of chaos sometimes and you want to pull your hair out,” echoes Matt Huang, the cofounder of the $12 billion crypto investment firm Paradigm. 

“But then you see what they can do and it’s like, holy crap,” he told Colossus Review in April 2025. “Nobody else in the world could do that.”

Case in point: Paradigm’s first hire in 2018, Charlie Noyes, was a 19-year-old MIT dropout who walked into his first 10 a.m. meeting five hours late. By 2025, Noyes was general partner at the crypto company at just 25.

In 2020, Noyes was the one who saw MEV as a critical blockchain issue, leading Paradigm to become the lead investor in Flashbots—a company whose infrastructure now touches nearly…