An action-packed conversation with tons of great knowledge about Blockchain/Bitcoin, Crypto-Currency and more with the CEO and co-founder of ePic Blockchain, Scott Howard and StartWell's CEO, Qasim Virjee.

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Qasim Virjee 0:11

All right, welcome back to this the fifth episode of the start well podcast broadcasting from well, I guess broadcasting all over the world from servers, God knows where you're probably listening on iTunes, I don't know, most of the people around the world are, but we are re syndicated through other partners. But recorded I should say at start with Studios, which is the back of our second floor. Let's start well, Kayne West, our main incubator campus, that's about 17,000 square feet with over 30 companies doing all sorts of crazy stuff. One of those companies is epic blockchain, a hardware company that will hear a lot about and we'll hear perhaps some more general stuff to start off with, as I'm joined in the studio today with Scott Howard, if you could just introduce yourself and then I've got a bunch of very boring preliminary questions to ask you. Before we, you know, throw around some fun stories.

Scott Howard 1:02

I'll make the I'll make the answers entertaining. So I'm Scott Howard. I'm the co founder of epic blockchain Technologies. I'm involved in a few other projects in the blockchain space and been around the startup community here in Toronto for a while, almost a decade. I've done a lot of co working space start well is actually the best one. Oh, why thank you. Best community best setup. I love it. I am a big fan. Just make sure your five star review the podcast got to get that five star review in there. Absolutely. That's a puppet pods. I'm a big podcast addict. So

Qasim Virjee 1:29

yeah, no, it's true. We need advocates who are listening to rate us. Boom. Yeah, rate and tweet. Absolutely spread the love. It's all about the love the I love the

Scott Howard 1:39

show everybody stuff. It's part of the blockchain ethos you guys show?

Qasim Virjee 1:43

Well, I mean, okay, I gotta ask, I try and ask everyone who's on on this boat. What they like about Star? Well, you know, because because I agree with you, you know, this is why, you know, I'm in this business, I want to build the best environment for companies to thrive as they grow, and enjoy doing that. So what if there's just, you know, aspects of space, or service that you'd like about, you know, the campus

Scott Howard 2:05

both work really well. So that Billy for our team to spreads out and sprawls all over the place, which is great, we're not kind of in our office, per se, or in the lounges and using the different workspaces and the meeting spaces and not getting too wound up about booking space and all the kind of stuff using the open space. That's a that's a nice change. You know, if you kind of do the the we work type model, it's the you get nickeled and dimed every time you walk into a room and use it and touch the whiteboard, stuff like that. And you'll see a $50 bill in a heartbeat. So not having to worry about that is great. It gets more collaborative. So you get to talk to people hang out with people more often, which is always, you know, kind of that whole co working ethos that gets lost. A lot of times it does. Everyone, it just turns into an office space at the end of the day, but I think the community here is pretty good. And then the committee managers are doing a great job. Yeah, the coffee is good. Yeah, the beer is served cold. Most important for most important qualified care, the beer is cold.

Qasim Virjee 3:03

Absolutely. It's very important, especially as we say this, there's a cooling issue and on your floor. So

Scott Howard 3:09

there might be if I had a complaint, but I turned into positive, I get my sauna every day. There you g