With a background that blends engineering and finance, Lyn Alden is an investor, bestselling 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 bestselling 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.
In 2025 she joined the board of directors of Bakkt (NYSE: BKKT), a publicly-traded company that focuses on digital asset infrastructure and neobanking, where she serves on the audit and risk committee and compensation committee.
In 2026 she authored The Stolguard Incident, a near-future sci fi thriller. Set in a semi-dystopian near-future world of ubiquitous surveillance and misinformation, the story begins when a terrorist when strange powers launches a series of deadly attacks, all while warning of an even greater threat to come.
Also in 2026 she co-founded Orange Juice, a company that acquires, improves, and permanently holds cash-flowing businesses, backed by a bitcoin treasury.
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, US News and World Report, and other media. She has appeared on Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Kitco, Real Vision, The Investor’s Podcast Network, The Rebel Capitalist Show, Macro Voices, Forward Guidance, and many other shows and podcasts.
While she limits travel to a few instances per year, she’s spoken at Princeton University, the Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum, the New Orleans Investment Conference, Singularity University’s Abundance 360, Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira, and many other events globally. On a select basis, she also speaks to institutional boards, family offices, and executive steering committees.
In terms of her personal life, she grew up in poverty as a child, including bouts of homelessness, and does what she can to empower disenfranchised or oppressed groups. She and her husband live part of the year in the United States and part of the year in Egypt, with family in both countries. Her hobbies include mixed martial arts and writing science fiction.
Contact information: https://www.lynalden.com/contact/
Investing newsletter: https://www.lynalden.com/investing-newsletter/
Broken Money: https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
