Preethi Kasireddy is a blockchain technology entrepreneur based out of Los Angeles, California. She is currently the CEO and Founder of TruStory, a tokenized social network, which incentives users to verify information.

Kasireddy is originally from Monroe, New Jersey. She attended the University of Southern California and earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering & Systems Engineering and a minor in Business in 2012. Throughout college, she had a high GPA (graduating with a 3.97) and was active in a number of groups on campus including the South Asian Rural Student Aid (VP of Finance), National Engineering Honors Society (Executive Board Member for USC Chapter), Industrial Engineering Honors Society (Alpha Pi Mu of Vice President), Trojan Investment Society (Mentor), Society of Women Engineers, Peer Health Educator, and Joint Educational Program (Teacher).

Upon graduating from college, Preethi Kasireddy became an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs. A year later, she joined Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner and led pitch meetings, worked with General Partners, and led a metrics driven initiative of measuring success. She left her position at Andreessen Horowitz in order to learn how to code and enrolled in Hacker Reactor. After a brief stint at Socket.IO, Kasireddy joined Coinbase as a Software Engineer. She left Coinbase in 2017 to start Sapien AI, an artificial inteligence startup that utilizes machine learning and NLP to build chatbots. She also worked as a self-employed blockchain developer. [9]

In November 2017, Kasireddy founded TruStory, a tokenized social network, which incentivizes users to verify information. She also serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer.

On November 19, 2017, Kasireddy published a viral Medium post about leaving Silicon Valley for Los Angeles, California which received over 70,000 claps. ^[1] Although she is thankful for the opportunities she had and the connections she made, Kasireddy criticized the group think in Silicon Valley. She also said that technological innovation, especially in blockchain, was not centralized in Silicon Valley but happening in cities worldwide. ^[1] Preethi chose to move to Los Angeles because of it's proximity to Silicon Valley, the booming tech scene in the city, the weather, and the diversity of people that inhabit the city. ^[1]