Stories by Matt Hussey
Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali: Always think like a student
Muneeb Ali is co-founder and CEO of Blockstack. But his career has taken a meandering path to get here. A graduate of Princeton, Ali spent his formative years working in academia on ways to im...
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Solve.Care CEO Pradeep Goel: Deliver on your value proposition, nothing else matters
Pradeep Goel has more than 25 years of healthcare experience, developing groundbreaking software for the insurance industry, and co-founding four healthcare IT businesses where he has served i...
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Digitex Futures CEO Adam Todd: Never give up
Adam Todd is the CEO & Founder of Digitex Futures, a zero-fee non-custodial cryptocurrency futures exchange. Adam wants to lower the barrier to trading and open up new markets to crypto trader...
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Liquality co-founder Thessy Mehrain: Keep testing your assumptions
Thessy Mehrain had a front row seat for the financial meltdown of 2008. As a senior product manager at JP Morgan's Investment division, the experience sent her on a journey into alternative fi...
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Hedera Hashgraph CEO Mance Harmon: Focus on creating fundamental, not speculative value.
Mance Harmon is CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph, a platform that presents itself as a faster and more secure alternative to blockchain. While many founders would be intimidated by the t...
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Lessons learned building a blockchain startup in Africa
The conversation in Europe and the US over the last 12 months has been dominated by regulation and the ongoing fallout from the ICO boom of 2017. In Africa meanwhile, blockchain projects have ...
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Panvala founder Niran Babalola: Ship early, ship often
Niran Babalola has been building applications on Ethereum since 2015. He's contributed to Augur, Gnosis, the ERC-20 token standard, as well as several smart contract security audits with Conse...
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Offchain Labs co-founder Ed Felten: focus on the value proposition and build from there
Ed Felten is co-founder and chairman of Offchain Labs, a company that specializes in fast, scalable smart contracts. But unlike many startup founders in the crypto space, Felten has spent deca...
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BitCar founder Gov van Ek: being an entrepreneur isn't for everyone
Gov van Ek is a man who never gives up. He founded his first software company in 1991, and has a list of successfully funded startups going back 20 years. In the blockchain world, he co-founde...
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NEO founder Erik Zhang: setting up a blockchain business is easier than ever
Erik is the founder and core developer of NEO, as well as the creator of the Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance dBFT consensus mechanism. But if it hadn't been for a chance encounter in 2014,...
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Blockparty founder Shiv Madan: Don't shill until your product has paying customers
Shiv Madan knows a thing or two about building a customer base. He cut his teeth at eBay, Accenture and Lehman Brothers before moving on to become COO at Time Inc.’s music brand NME.co in Asia...
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Gitcoin Founder Kevin Owocki: Know when to kill something that doesn't work
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based network for growing open source software with incentivization mechanics. He has a BS in Computer Science, 10 years of engineering lead...
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MetaMask Community Lead Jason Lee: Don't risk your community for quick cash gains
Jason Lee is the business development and community lead at MetaMask, the browser extensions that acts as a gateway to the decentralized web. His role has helped MetaMask garner more than 1.3 ...
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Anchor CEO Daniel Popa: Hold onto your core values
Daniel Popa knows a thing or two about building businesses that last. In his 20 years as a serial entrepreneur, he's successfully launched 12 companies and generated more than $1 billion in re...
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Bounties Network co-founder Simona Pop: Be a human-centric product shipping machine
Simona Pop is helping put people on the blockchain. As the co-founder of Bounties Network, a decentralized platform designed to allow people to list tasks as diverse as code, design, music, an...
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Crypto influencer Thomas Power: Understand your market above anything else
Thomas Power might well be the most connected person in crypto. An influencer who can send stocks flying (in either direction) with a mere tweet, he’s consistently top 10 on the Rise.Global cr...
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Datafloq CEO Mark Van Rijmenam: Sell blockchain's benefits not the tech
Mark van Rijmenam is the author of ‘Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World’ and founder of Datafloq, a one-stop shop for data, vendors, and jobs in big data, blockchain and AI. H...
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Arcade City CEO Christopher David: Ignore blockchain for now
Self-taught coder Christopher David discovered bitcoin after one of the early price booms in 2011, but soon realized that cryptocurrencies were so much more than just a digital store of value....
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Coinsilium co-founder Eddy Travia: Don't bother with fads and short-term trends
Eddy Travia started his career in finance, working in the private equity and investment industry in Asia. More recently, however, he's used that experience to become one of blockchain's, and t...
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Kristy-Leigh Minehan: Never forget the product
Kristy-Leigh Minehan is an engineer, developer and coder. She's also the public face of ProgPoW—a proposed upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain that’s, arguably, the most contentious since the c...
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