Mercina Tillemann (YC 15), Chief Operating Officer of the Global Blockchain Business Council
“We focus more on the problems that blockchain technology can solve, and the problems for which it is the best tool to solve.”
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Taurai Chinyamakobvu (Yale Mandela Washington Fellow ’14), Founding Chairman of Zimbabwe’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange
“Cryptocurrencies have grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade since they came into being. They started from the periphery, but are now dominating debate at both policy and regulatory levels– something that was unthinkable five years ago”
Yuri Cataldo (School of Drama ’08), Host of The Coin Chat and Author of Be Left Behind
“When I was a designer, my art was my livelihood, and I needed to know that I would be paid on time; implementing Smart Contracts is really exciting because you don’t have to worry about that anymore.”
Antonio Simeone (Financial Markets Certificate ’14), Co-Founder and Algorithmic Trader at Euklid
“If you give legal value to information that is registered immutably on the blockchain, then you don’t need to pay $50 thousand every year just to have another company reconciling numbers.”
David Koepsell (YICB ’07), Co-founder of Encrypgen, LLC and Blockchain in Healthcare Global
“We can do something similar with genomic data, and we can create a way to disseminate that data to scientists who need it for research while also allowing people to receive compensation for their data through blockchains.”
Kristina Yee (YC ’89), Marketing Strategist for Blockchain, FinTech, AML, RPA, Fraud, and Cybersecurity
‘“You’re already getting paid as much as ‘Joe.’ You get that’s wrong, right?’ I mean yes, but I have the experience and the background to do what you need to do. And nobody else does, that’s just reality.”
Interview with Jiawan Ni (SOM ‘18), Director of Blockchain Charity Foundation
“We need to think about how this technology can be beneficial, not only to people at the top of the pyramid, but also to people across the pyramid, and especially to those at the bottom of the pyramid.”
Daniel Yim (SOM ‘18), Principal at Noblis and Head of Asia at Government Blockchain Association
“The matter of fact is that everyone wants to claim the glory of being the first integrator of a new technology, but nobody wants to be the failure of the investment in unknown technology.”