Around the Coin

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Simon Yu, CEO and Co-Founder of StormX, a mobile app and browser extension that allows anyone to earn Crypto Cashback when they shop online in the form of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, DAI, and StormX's native token (STMX). Simon is an entrepreneur and crypto expert who has 10+ years of experience building products in the crypto industry. His entrepreneurial journey started when due to financial constraints he, unfortunately, had to drop out of college, where he started a Korean Taco business to make ends meet. Eventually, after graduating from the University of Washington in 2014, he participated in the Berkley Blockchain Xcelerator held by the University of California in 2020. He co-founded StormX in 2014 and has raised $30M+ to date, from notable investors such as Plug and Play Ventures. The StormX app and extension are free to use and have over 4.5M installs worldwide and to date have paid out USD 5.6M+ rewards in crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Darren Camas who is the CEO of IPOR Labs. Darren has been a blockchain entrepreneur since 2011 across exchanges, payments, protocol, and investments in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. He was formerly Sr. Advisor for the Cardano blockchain venture wing Emurgo and led business development for one of the world's first multi-currency crypto exchanges TradeHill in 2011. He is also an active advisor and angel investor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leon Lee is the founder of Only1 - the first web3 social platform on Solana, backed by Alameda Research and Animoca Brands. He was a genetic engineer and have entered the blockchain space since 2017, now he aims to revolutionise the creator economy through NFTs and DeFi.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke was responsible for building the products that now supports enterprise business. He spends his time working with clients and stakeholders gathering critical feedback that can improve HFD's products and message.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ganesh is a co-founder of Covalent – a blockchain data indexing company. Covalent is indexing all of the world's blockchain information and making it queryable via a simple API. Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur and has over a decade of experience in big data analytics. He started his career in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deepak is on a mission of Building long-term investing tools for mission-oriented degens. He is a rare combination of Web3 native, community builder, and cybersecurity expert -- all traits that are essential in building a successful DeFi platform.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe has over 20 years of experience in software architecture focusing on security and scalability. He has created and led multiple technology startups since the mid 1990s. He is a visionary and thought leader in blockchain technology having led or contributed to projects in the space since 2010 at companies such as Overstock, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, & the Walt Disney Company.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sebastian builds technical solutions that empower the individual. As founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR, he contributes to establishing full stack privacy for the web3.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark has over 20 years of experience building large-scale data, AI, blockchain, and distributed software initiatives for the government, enterprise, and tech startup sectors. He founded Itheum 2 years ago to build technology that empowers personal data sovereignty with a focus now on making Itheum the core personal data protocol for the Metaverse era.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suji Yan, founder, and CEO of Dimension & Mask Network. Dropped out of UIUC (the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Computer Engineering Department to start a business. Former independent reporter of Qdaily & Caixin Media, former engineer of the autonomous driving company; currently a mentor of RadicalxChange Fellowship; co-authored articles by amateur and “Radical Market” / RadicalxChange, and other economists and legal scholars; once published by Wired, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and so on. At present, individuals mainly focus on open source, encryption, and privacy protection (product: mask.io ).(for company logo: https://dimensiondev.github.io/Mask-VI/ )Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices