[2] He spent the first five years of his life in Ethiopia and Afghanistan while his father worked for the United States Agency for International Development.
[3] At the age of one, Saiers was held at gunpoint in Ethiopia while passing through a security checkpoint in the aftermath of the overthrow of Haile Selassie.
[5] His thesis, Involutions Fixing Products of Projective Spaces, was in algebraic topology and was advised by Robert Evert Stong.
[7] In July 2010, Saiers left Deutsche Bank to join Alphabet Management, a New York hedge fund specializing in derivatives.
[12][13] Saiers' art has been featured in solo shows at Harvard University's Leverett House,[14] Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary,[15] and multiple New York City galleries.
[12][16] Saiers also installed a 9-foot inflatable rat covered with bitcoin references and code in front of the Federal Reserve as a homage to Satoshi Nakamoto and protests in New York City.
[17][18] In late 2021 Saiers commented on the Federal Reserve's "cheap money" monetary policy by installing a sculpture next to the Wall Street Charging Bull.
[19][20] From July 2016 to February 2017, Saiers exhibited a large scale installation at Alcatraz titled "Shortening: Making the Irrational Rational".