[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":8},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-khushboo-khullar":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7],"Khushboo Khullar is a Bitcoin-focused investor and venture partner at Lightning Ventures, an investment network for Bitcoin startups. She previously worked in mergers and acquisitions and macroeconomics at Mizuho Bank, focusing on financing for Bitcoin-native companies and the Lightning Network.","At Lightning Ventures she leads portfolio support for a fund that has backed more than forty Bitcoin and open-source companies, most of them at the earliest stage, where the binding constraint is rarely the technology and usually the banking, the legal wrapper and the jurisdiction.","That is where her work meets the Free Cities argument. A company built on an open monetary network still has to be incorporated somewhere, bank somewhere and pay tax somewhere, and for a founder who can work from anywhere that choice has become a design decision rather than an accident of birth. She speaks at Bitcoin conferences on adoption and start-up financing, including Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador, and is based in Singapore, where she took her master’s degree; her doctorate in economics was on macroeconomics and energy security.",1788062488816]