After leaving arbinet, the next big thing i tryed to build was over. We were in at least 500 cities when uber was just in san francisco. My business was growing 30 % years a year, and it was profitable. But then they raised 16 billion dollars subsidizing prices. Ryt they never made money. So that was one of my failures. Right after that, i i decided I want to put wireless in the new york subways. New York is the largest subway, underground subway system in the world. It's the last city in the world that did not wireless. Dod not have a forgy or wife in the subways. Ad cris, i
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius, to talk about creating a crypto fund manager (3:25), managing risk (8:40), growing up in Israel (11:50), buying a one-way ticket to New York (14:10), his first startup (16:10), launching a voice-over-IP company (22:50), getting kicked out of his own company (27:50), trying to build Uber before Uber (30:10), putting wifi in the New York subway (34:10), getting into crypto (37:10), getting rejected by 200 venture capitalists (42:15), going from zero to $24 billion in assets under management (44:00), “centralised finance” (48:35), why he put $300 million of his own cash into Celsius (50:25), the future of crypto (55:05), and Web 3 and the fight for the future of money (1:02:40).
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