Sandra Ro (YC 96), CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council
“What I see here is not just tech but a convergence of tech and data with society, law, regulation, money, financial services, and other fields in the humanities.”
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Evin McMullen (YC 12), Founder and Project Lead of Stow Protocol at ConsenSys
“Some people have a vegan phase when they go to college– I had a decentralization and structured data phase.”
Gavin Myers (YC 99), Co-Founder and General Partner of Prudence Holdings
“We flew over to this conference in Amsterdam in 2014, and we were early enough to crypto that we could walk up to booths manned by the founders of Coinbase, Blockchain, Xapo, and Ripple.”
Geoffrey See (University Fellow 10), Head of Identity at Trusting Social and Founder of Choson Exchange
“We need to understand regulation and how to work with regulators much better, instead of trying to understand the rules of the game differently or pretending that they don’t exist.”
Angela Ramirez (YC 12), Software Engineer at Livepeer, Ethereum-based Video Encoding Platform
“It’s a small industry compared to other industries, but that just makes it all the more exciting. I love it. I love my job. It’s a great opportunity to come up with fresh ideas and make a difference.”
Tom Trowbridge (YC 96), Former President of Hedera Hashgraph
“A friend wanted to move money out of a Swiss bank account, and I wondered whether he should use Bitcoin. At the time, it was priced at around $300, and I began paying much more attention to the ecosystem.”
Nick Arora (Yale HCM 15), Director of Medical Information at xCures and Advisor to Rymedi
“Having some background in [health and life sciences] has helped me strike that balance between the bigger vision for blockchain and the realities for healthcare providers, payers, and ultimately doctors and patients.”
Jack Fonss (Yale SOM 93), Chief Architect of AccuShares’ IP Portfolio and Blockchain Technologies Inventor
“I think the classic ways people look at the technology’s usefulness and adaptions are unnecessarily limited by conventions and orthodoxy.”