My guest today is Marlon Williams (https://twitter.com/marlonwilliams), founder of Atlanta Blockchain Center (https://www.linkedin.com/company/atlantachain/). Marlon is a serial entrepreneur, starting and selling his first business at 25. He currently operates 4 different successful businesses. His company Starter Labs has helped raise over $45million for blockchain startups, and is the parent company for Atlanta Blockchain Center. We also get the tea on Immutable, the conference that will put Atlanta on the map. This episode is a powerful one because Marlon’s mission of making Atlanta a blockchain hub is near and dear to my heart and he and his team have supported the growth of this show tremendously.  

We discuss...

Marlon’s humble beginnings feeding his drive  

Why he became addicted to programming

Find the right mix of sales and engineering skills and anything is possible

The hustle, moonlighting his business then moonlighting bitcoin 

How Marlon helped one of his early employees to pay for college through bitcoin mining

First crypto business - replacing incentive structure in call center business

Marlon’s first blockchain developed was a DAO before DAOs

• 100 contributors from the start
• Organized into working groups
• Co-chairs to set the vision
• Using telegram to communicate

Starter Labs

• Autonomous funding mechanism
• Built on binance smart chain
• EVM projects
• Ranked #1 for ROI on Cryptograph

Journey to Atlanta Blockchain Center

• Logical extension of launchpads already building
• The city was ripe for building fintech companies
• Lack of cohesive blockchain community
• It’s a slow burn

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