Dan Held is the Growth Lead at Kraken Bitcoin Exchange. Dan is a serial Bitcoin entrepreneur with two exits (Interchange, Kraken, ZeroBlock, Blockchain.com), and has a wide span of experience across five Bitcoin companies.

His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by Airbnb), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second-ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised of the founders of Kraken, Coinbase, Litecoin, and others.

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