WYFT or What’s Your Focus Today!

In one of the most exciting new developments in crypto land, I invite you to enjoy my conversation with Jason Goldberg, serial entrepreneur and brains behind both the OST platform/protocol, and the Pepo app, the first blockchain driven app to be approved in the App store!  

Jason is a product designer with more than 20 years of experience designing consumer internet products, who has previously founded Hem.com, Fab.com, and Social Median. Today he is known as the founder and maker of OST.com and Pepo, the latter being the first crypto-powered app approved by Apple in the App Store, built on OST technology, the world's first seamlessly embeddable Ethereum wallet SDK.

OST

Pepo

Other resources:

- https://youtu.be/odeXBNcqGEs

- https://youtu.be/8OyEaRr6pDk

- https://medium.com/ostdotcom/pepo-is-coming-to-sf-blockchain-week-cryptomondays-nyc-ethwaterloo-632973421b09

Check out also my other conversations with key industry players:

- http://bit.ly/iwantmyngravenow

- http://bit.ly/iwantmycelsiusnow

- http://bit.ly/Iwantmywerbachnow

Get ready to grab the last wallet you'll want to own going into 2020!

Enjoy my conversation with Ruben here and share lavishly.

For more resources:

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Ruben Merre is a serial entrepreneur who launched his first small business when he was eight years old. Prior to NGRAVE, Ruben worked for a startup in strategy and management consulting, playing an integral role in scaling the company internationally. Fluent in six languages, Ruben could really make the difference by leading projects in the local tongue. Apart from collecting multiple postgraduate degrees in parallel with his professional life, Ruben played a crucial part in launching the first automated portfolio investment platform in Belgium. Ruben not only led the project, he also unraveled the algorithm black box by rebuilding the full mathematical logic from scratch, ultimately proposing important quantitative readjustments of the implemented models. After scaling the platform to other countries, this combination of a strategic, visionary helicopter view and an experienced project management eye for detail made Ruben the obvious choice to lead a large international financial institution's entrepreneurial endeavor to set up a group-wide algorithmic trading / investment platform from scratch. Ruben led all twenty sub-projects for about two years, then decided to shift his focus completely to blockchain and, ultimately, NGRAVE. 

>>>Ruben has a M.Sc. in Business Engineering (MBE), several postgraduate degrees, and is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional) and LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt. Ruben also successfully completed Oxford University's Blockchain Strategy Program.<<<

=> In 2018, $2.5B were stolen from crypto wallets. 2019 already stands at a whopping $4.3B (>$10M a day). Needless to say, if you have cryptocurrencies you are at risk.

=> The root cause lies with the private key. This is the access key to any blockchain wallet. Every crypto hack to this date involves stealing the private key. At NGRAVE, we call this phenomenon the Private Key Paradox. If you don't know my private key, you cannot computationally break it with any existing computing power. But if you just watch over my shoulder, it's game over. The private key is the strength, but also the Achilles heel of the system.

=> NGRAVE is the first end-to-end solution in the world. It generates your private keys offline and never exposes them afterwards, ever. We effectively solve the private key problem by offering a full A - Z solution:

1. The ZERO: A 100% Offline Hardware Wallet, completely air-gapped from any connection whatsoever.

2. The GRAPHENE: A 100% Offline Everlasting Private Key Backup, just in case you lose your ZERO.

3. The LIQUID: Our mobile app for the last mile connection to the blockchain. Only public information.

This is the most ingenious security solution you'll encounter. And as it happens, also incredibly fast, intuitive, and well...easy to use.

The future is blockchain. We might as well make it incredibly secure. And easy.

Visit https://www.ngrave.io and subscribe to get Early Adopter VIP status.

In this episode, I catch up at length with the very outspoken Alex Mashinsky, Founder and CEO of the Celsius Network - the platform of choice that lets you ...

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For additional resources, check out the following video's:

- Alex Mashinsky, Celsius CEO, interview at NASDAQ

- Milken Institute | Crypto Brawl Highlights

- Crypto Brawl, Part 2. Alex Mashinsky vs Nouriel Roubini. BlockShow Americas

- Alex Mashinsky Interview with Tim Draper, The Next Web

To get started today and be part of the revolution:

=>>>Join Celsius Network using my referral code 1086627c68 when signing up and earn $10 in BTC with your first deposit of $200 or more! #UnbankYourself https://celsiusnetwork.app.link/1086627c68 <<<=

Thank you!

Yvan De Munck

Magenta & Phil Millo, transforming the way to look at growing your BTC holdings.

(If you are interested and want to know more, get in touch with me here)

In this episode, I caught up with Phil Millo, a friend and forward looking innovator in the structured finance industry.

Phil Millo is the Group CEO of Magenta, a full-service crypto-structuring firm and ICO accelerator operating in London, Luxembourg, and Cayman. He is a recognized expert in the creation of crypto-based financial products and is named on several patent applications relating to blockchain consensus algorithms. He attends the UK government’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain and is an adviser to a number of specialist ICOs. He has spent much of the past decade executing advanced fiat structures and advising ultra-large asset managers and sovereigns on alternative assets. Phil has worked around the world and structured many complex financial products involving both fiat and digital assets. A technology leader in the 1990s, he was voted one of the top 100 most important people to have driven the first decade of the commercial internet. Phil holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

During my discussion with Phil, I talk about past and future, but more importantly, we talk about probably one of the most interesting and timely innovations in the crypto space - the Bitcoin Growth Bonds. 

The programme has been designed to appeal to digital asset holders who are looking to grow their long term bitcoin holdings without risking any exposure to fiat price volatility. These are the first ever bitcoin denominated securities to have been allocated International Security Identification Numbers (ISINs).

The programme delivers passive bitcoin growth through an investment grade structure with no exposure to fiat. Growth is delivered by securitizing exposures to a portfolio of collateralised digital asset debt instruments. All settlement, underlying collateral, and growth is denominated in bitcoin.

The bonds are issued from the Argento Access platform. Argento Access is a Luxembourg registered securitization company established in 2013, which offers exposure to a range of alternative asset growth strategies through easily purchasable financial products. Argento Access has extensive experience in catering to investors’ needs and interests.

For more information, get in touch with me here.

#WYFT

This podcast episode is a bit out of the ordinary I would say, then again, maybe it'll end up being one of the most interesting ones.

Why?

Andy Gole is a veteran sales trainer, educator, and more in general, a great guy. Completely unknown to me, until recently that is, I met Andy at a private conference in NYC a few months ago, whereby he briefly presented to the audience his concept of Urgency Based Selling. 

From his website: 

"For more than three decades, as a sales theorist and practitioner, Urgency Based Selling® Founder Andy Gole has taught sales professionals how to transform a bold vision for their work into breakthrough selling techniques and management strategies to achieve their goals.  Andy and the expert team at Urgency Based Selling® are proud to work with organizations of all sizes, in a variety of industries."

As a sales professional, I know that everything in business, at some point, starts (and ends) with (no) sales. Whether you're in Fintech, Startups, or Gaming/Gamification. Sales is eternal, and in my book, everyone is in sales in this day and age. Having some novel insights from a seasoned pro like Andy is very gratifying therefore, and beyond helpful. In my conversation, we cover in detail a selection of his key concepts:

and many others are talked about in passing. 

After listening to my conversation with Andy, go and grab a copy of his brand new book: "Innovate Now: Scale Up with 16 Breakthrough Sales Techniques" and let me know what you've learned, and how you're going to apply this in your own situation. 

"Innovate Now shows how to sell for emotional intoxication! In modern culture, it’s an oxymoronic idea. Consider the direct and indirect impact of negative stereotypes like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman; on the surface “joyous selling” is absurd. It’s an extraordinary idea! To potentially achieve emotional intoxication through selling, that is: heroic selling. What makes business development heroic is opening the closed mind, bringing the prospect who says “I’m good” to explore new ideas which lead to a higher state of well-being. This is why salespeople are heroes. Innovate Now shows how to be a sales hero. This typically requires novel new approaches to selling.Innovate Now helps the reader jump-start sales innovation. It provides new ideas you can implement immediately - like payments in kind - and methods to develop your own innovative ideas - like overcoming self-limiting assumptions and confirmation bias."

Enjoy!

Yvan De Munck

Yannis Moati is the CEO of the leading domestic platform in day-stay hotel rooms. You can check out the basics in the video below.

https://youtu.be/nT4D01nLPz8

In my recent podcast interview with Yannis at his offices in NYC, I caught up with him after seeing him last about 2 years ago, and a lot has been achieved, clearly.

The concept is novel for sure, but makes total sense, especially at a time where the economies are slowing down, and hotel operators will be looking for new ways to add margin to the business.

I enjoyed talking to Yannis about the business and other things in life, and I recommend you try out the services and spread the word. 

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