New In (September 202): Adobe’s $20 billion takeover of FIGMA has made its cofounders, Dylan Field and Evan Wallace billionaires. The deal doubled the valuation that the San Francisco-based startup landed in June 2021, when it raised $200 million from investors including Durable Capital and Morgan Stanley. It is now expected that each Dylan and Evan hold a 10% stake in the company that would now be valued at $2 billion. Having said that, here is a look at the life of FIGMA Dylan Field’s wife. She is Elena Nadolinski and here’s what we know about her.
Meet Elena Nadolinski, FIGMA Dylan Field Wife
FIGMA Dylan Field and Elena Nadolinski seemed pretty private about their relationship. However, a few times, when major events happened in their lives they made sure to share it with the world as well.
For instance, on 1 September 2020 when Dylan wrote on Twitter how not even 2020 could stop them from likely getting married.
Then in April 2021, when Dylan was at the virtual conference of his design software company, popular with customers including Airbnb, BMW, and Zoom, he found out that Elena was pregnant with their first child.
A month before that, during an interview, Dylan had mentioned how his wife had been at ETH Waterloo, where CryptoKitties was first created. What he meant to say was that he has seen the birth and the rise of CryptoKitties through her as well.
There have been a few more times when Dylan mentioned Elena in his tweets.
Anyway, the couple must be happy now based in their home of San Francisco, California, with a new member recently added to their family.
Elena Nadolinski Age
Born in 1992, Elena Nadolinski reached the age of 29 in 2021.
Elena Nadolinski Job
Elena Nadolinski has been the founder/CEO/instigator of Iron Fish since October 2018. Iron Fish in their words is a novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and usability that was born out of the 2020 pandemic. Elena also writes on the website that they are working on providing a currency that makes privacy approachable and easy to use while providing the strongest privacy guarantees available. As for why they chose the name ‘Iron Fish’, Elena said, because during WW2 the US Navajo Code Talkers used it as a codename for a submarine displaying the power of cryptography to protect and defend.
The San Francisco-based Iron Fish launched its first test net in April 2021 and shared by 2021’s end that it had since attracted nearly 2,000 self-identified miners to its community. Around that time, it had raised $27.7 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round included Sequoia, Electric Capital, MetaStable, Arrington XRP, Terra co-founder Do Kwon, Thesis CEO Matt Luongo, and Anchorage co-founder Nathan McCauley.
Now, that explains why Elena, also a former software engineer at Microsoft and Airbnb, made it to Forbe’s “30 Under 30 – Finance” list in 2022.
How Much Is Elena Nadolinski Net Worth?
Elena Nadolinski was reportedly standing at $2 million net worth as of 2022.
Outside of her coding prowess, Elena has also run a side business making jewelry out of old electronics salvaged from dumpsters. She sold these pieces at women-in-tech events and in her Etsy store. She also partnered with Sequoia in 2021.
Elena Nadolinski Family
Elena Nadolinski’s father is Alexander Nadolinski. He reached the age of 50 in January 2022.
Also, Elena’s mother is Yekaterina Nadolinskaya. She turned 51 in February 2022. According to the internet, the folks seemed to be together and married and based in the City of Fairfax, in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
Also, as per LinkedIn, Elena’s mother is a senior consultant at CACI International Inc. Back in the day, between 1988 – 1993, she studied for her master’s in Applied mathematics at Volgograd State University in Russia. While her husband and Elena’s dad mentioned being the owner of nadlab.
Related FAQs
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When Is Elena Nadolinski Birthday?
Elena Nadolinski celebrates her birthday in the month of October. So, she is either a Libra or a Scorpius.
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What Is Elena Nadolinski Nationality?
Elena grew up in Volgograd city, formerly known as Stalingrad, in southwest Russia, on the western bank of the Volga River. However, she eventually found herself acquiring American nationality.
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Is Elena Nadolinski On Instagram And Twitter?
Elena Nadolinski could be found on Instagram @elnado.world where she had 20 posts and 204 followers as of 16 September 2022.
Elena also appeared even more involved in tweeting on Twitter (@leanthebean) where at the time she entertained 5,921 followers.
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Where Did Elena Nadolinski Recieve Her Education?
First, Elena Nadolinski went to W. T. Woodson High School. Back then she was the vice president of Woodson’s Computer Science Club, and president of its Robotics Club, serving both groups for three years. While she was president of the latter group, her team came second internationally in the Botball Robotics Tournament. Another project she undertook, writing a software program in Java, won her recognition from the Central Intelligence Agency and from George Mason University.
Between 2011 and 2014, she studied for her B.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
In 2012, when still a freshman at Virginia Tech, Elena was one of six young women invited to the White House as a winner of the National Council for Women in Information Technology Award for Aspirations in Computing.
