I'm Stephanie Zinn.
I make editorial-minded marketing, mostly for tech companies.

Writer, editor, and growth strategist turning complex ideas into compelling stories. I make things, and then watch them grow.

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Roles and results

Audience development, strategy, and results.

Growth and editorial lead

a16z 2022 – Present

Make things; get attention. Audience growth and editorial strategy across Substack, X, YouTube, and search/LLM optimization.

+70K substack subs
+22K youtube subs
+165K x follows
20M+ impressions
in 2025

Editorial lead

Coinbase 2020 – 2022

Launched two new publications (Coinbase Learn and Coinbase Bytes) and built an editorial team.

15M newsletter subs
40%+ open rates
+1% in trading volume
from newsletter
1M views on Coinbase
Learn/month

Senior editorial manager

GitHub 2015 – 2020

Built an editorial team from scratch, launched The ReadME Project as an executive editor.

0 → 7 content creators
50+ campaigns shipped
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Writing & Editing

Storytelling, strategy docs, scripts, and editorial work across tech and media.

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It's Time to Take Back the Internet

A full-page ad in The New York Times making the case for a better internet built on blockchain technology—one that puts power back in the hands of users, creators, and builders.

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Coinbase Founder's Letter

Brian Armstrong's founder's letter ahead of Coinbase's direct listing, outlining the company's mission, values, and vision for an open financial system.
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Why Bad Policy Favors Memes Over Matter

An analysis of how bad policy decisions allow memecoins to flourish, while threatening productive technologies with legal action.
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How Rust Developers Are Making the Web Safer

A feature on how the Rust programming language is taking off among major tech companies; plus, the push to secure core internet infrastructure.
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Open Source on Mars: How Community Powers NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter

How thousands of open source developers unknowingly helped fly a cute little helicopter on Mars, tracing the community contributions behind NASA's Ingenuity mission.
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How Open Source Software Powers Modern Filmmaking

A look at how open source tools like OpenEXR, OpenColorIO, and Blender became essential infrastructure for animation and visual effects at studios like ILM and Weta Digital.
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State of Crypto 2025

Annual report on the state of the crypto industry, covering builder activity, onchain metrics, policy developments, and infrastructure growth across the ecosystem.
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State of Crypto 2023

Annual report on the state of the crypto industry, tracking developer trends, usage data, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
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Select Media

Video, audio, and clips across tech and crypto.

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Books that Defined Our Year

a16z crypto podcast · Podcast Guest, Marketing

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Read Write Own: Taking back the internet — with Chris Dixon

Read Write Own Book Promotion · Writing

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How Stablecoins Will Eat Payments

a16z crypto · Editing, Production

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What is DePIN? The Case for Decentralizing the Real World — with Guy Wuollet

a16z crypto · Editing, Production

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Coinbase Learn: How to Set up a Crypto Wallet

Coinbase · Writing

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Bring innovation to work with GitHub Enterprise

GitHub · Writing

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Ten Years of Code

GitHub · Writing, Production

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GitHub Presents Atom 1.0

GitHub · Writing

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How We Build Software

GitHub · Writing

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Secrets and How to Prove Them: A Magician's Guide to Zero-Knowledge Proofs

a16z crypto · Writing, Production, Marketing

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Audio

Podcast appearances, ad reads, and audio production.

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What we're reading

a16z crypto · Podcast Guest

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Ad read by Bill Simmons

The Ringer · Writing

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Ad read by Malcolm Gladwell

Revisionist History · Writing

Clips

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The Future of Oats is the Future of Everything

a16z crypto with Palmer Luckey · Editing, Production

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In Bots We Trust?

a16z crypto with Sean Neville · Editing, Production

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What's the Smallest Hill You'd Die On?

a16z crypto and friends · Editing, Production

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Who Cares About Privacy?

a16z crypto with Eddy Lazzarin · Editing, Production

Stephanie Zinn

About Me

I'm Stephanie Zinn, a writer, editor, and creative producer who's spent 10 years translating complex technologies into stories people actually want to read, watch, and listen to. I care about craft, clarity, and making the complicated feel inevitable.

In my free time, find me reading, writing, hiking, and deadlifting.

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