Lyn Alden
Madelyn Alden Schwartzer aka Lyn Alden is an investor, best-selling author, and worldwide speaker who focuses on the intersection of money and technology.
She has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (Penn State) and a master’s degree in engineering management (Rowan University).
From 2009 to 2021 she was an electrical engineer, and then subsequently the head engineer and system integrator, at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Cockpit Simulation Facility. In 2016 she founded the research firm Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, which provides investment research for retail and institutional investors. It started as a side hobby to express her lifelong interest in investing, but soon became so large that she left her engineering work to focus on it full time. In 2022 she teamed up with the venture firm Ego Death Capital, where she serves as a general partner. She’s an investor, advisor, and/or board member in a variety of technology startups.
In 2023 she authored the best-selling book Broken Money about the past, present, and future of money through the lens of technology. From shells to gold, from ancient bills of exchange to central banks, and from the invention of the telegraph to the creation of Bitcoin, Broken Money examines how the introductions of new technology have shaped what we use as money over the ages.
Lyn’s work has been editorially featured or cited on the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Business Insider, Marketwatch, Time’s Money Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Street, CNBC, US News and World Report, and other media. She has appeared on Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, Kitco, Real Vision, The Investor’s Podcast Network, The Rebel Capitalist Show, Macro Voices, Forward Guidance, and many other shows and podcasts.