Hayden was laid off as a mechanical engineer and later went to invent the Uniswap protocol.
He quickly started to learn about ethereum and started coding on advice of a friend. He read some blogs and Vitalik’s idea about AMMs and started working on that.(was still unemployed)
He shared the updates with other people who found it to be interesting and exciting. The team started to become big.
Then he met with Vitalik and gave him suggestions and told him to apply for a grant.
He pondered on that and took necessary actions. And also applied for the grant which they won it.
Things were going on with the Uniswap and the time had finally arrived.
They wanted the launch of The Uniswap Protocol to be a memorable one so they made some shirts.
And on 2 Nov 2018 Uniswap was launched.