In the eighties, i did eight start up o itcellsis. My number eight. I just think a america is definitly the land of opportunities. Just most americans don't see it the they're somehow blind to the fact that they live in the land of opportunity. In europe, they tell you that you don't anl any of the credentials and you haven't worked 20 years in the field, and that's why you can't launch it. And in the united states, they help you make it happen,. That does that's a concept that only exists in America.
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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