He would have listened to Steve Jobs earlier on, sort of building on the Mac earlier, but he's had some success of his own, going in and grabbing Activision in 1991, out of bankruptcy, at a small court and Long Island out there for 400 grand for 30%, then restructured the whole company, put it as his own team, grew it over six years to over 200, 300 million bucks in revenue. He obviously is now left that company, took over another company in the gaming space,

ended up doing some work with Walt Disney, now working on again how ICOs and how ICOs are

very similar to back in his Mortal Kombat days in the gaming industry, helping people raise

capital, whether that's just, you know, investors putting in money via their credit card,

or again, raising via ICOs and using the

blockchain.

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Hello, everyone. My guest today is Howard Marks. He's the co-founder and CEO at Start

Engine, which is crowdfunding capital, the leader in initial coin offerings and online

public offerings. He founded Startup Engine with the mission to help entrepreneurs achieve their

dreams and was founder and CEO of Acclaim Games,

a publisher of online games, now part of the Walt Disney Company. Before Acclaim, Mark was the co-founder

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