i went to the library on forty second street and i asked them for a directory, a chemical directory. I sent the facts to every manufacture of sodium sinon in the world back then. And they were very impressed because no one has ever managed to make an outside call in a tn without a code. They all do have a common denomina, solk. If you look at voice of ip, for example, right? Well, this is ten years before skipe. Rihts, kipe was two thousand and four toat 19 94. My customer, my customer was actually eigh t Nt. So i was m i was in the right place the right time
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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