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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

The CEO of failed crypto firm HyperVerse boasted an extraordinary résumé. He may be completely made-up

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The CEO of Australian crypto outfit HyperVerse is a graduate of Cambridge, an alumnus of Goldman Sachs, and an entrepreneur who sold a company to Adobe. But there's just one problem: He may not be real.

Steven Reece Lewis was introduced during an online global launch for the company in 2021 and appeared in multiple videos published by HyperVerse, according to an investigation by the Guardian. But after scrutinizing further, the outlet found that Cambridge, Goldman, and Adobe had zero evidence of interacting with Lewis.

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