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🗓️ 23 November 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Kevin is a technology founder, recognized leader in the blockchain ecosystem, and currently the CEO of Etherparty and Vanbex Group. As an early entrant into cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, Kevin is a veteran of the industry, and has led the group of companies into becoming one of the largest blockchain solutions providers in Vancouver.
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0:00.0 | Founder of Vandex, think of it like an agency essentially for the blockchain space. |
0:04.5 | They've got 42 full-time employees launched in 2013, raised 500 grand a couple years ago. |
0:10.4 | Him and his business partner still owned 90% of the company. |
0:12.9 | However, they did do a token sale and raised $30 million. |
0:15.6 | That was the value of the ether. |
0:16.5 | They sold kind of at the time. |
0:17.7 | They liquidated about 60%. |
0:19.7 | So about $15 million in Fiat at the time. They liquidated about 60%. So about 15 million bucks in Fiat |
0:22.0 | at that time. Good thing they did because now the price is obviously down to 13 million bucks |
0:25.3 | just because ether's obviously sank. He does think some of these values could go down much, |
0:29.6 | much lower than they are today, but he's prepared to kind of write it out with a new mechanism. |
0:32.9 | He's invented to launch a few of his SaaS products he's got in the pipeline for blockchain enthusiasts. |
0:41.3 | Hello, everyone. My guest today is Kevin Hobbs. He's a technology founder, recognized leader in the blockchain ecosystem and currently the CEO of Ether Party and Vanbex Group. |
0:45.2 | As an early entry into the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology space, he's a veteran of the |
0:49.0 | industry and has led the group of companies into becoming one of the largest blockchain |
0:51.6 | solution providers in Vancouver. Kevin, are you ready to take us to the top? Thanks, Nathan. Yeah, I am. All right. So, |
0:57.8 | you know, a lot of people who I would say are earlier adopters really understand blockchain. |
1:02.8 | I would say mass market really doesn't yet. So try and dumb Vanbex down for us as best you can. |
1:07.7 | What's the company do related to blockchain? I mean, if you really want me to put it in layman's terms, what we do is we help |
1:13.9 | incubate companies in the blockchain space. We help teach them about what they're trying to do, |
1:19.1 | help them build the foundation of the blockchain business that they might have in the future. |
1:23.1 | Okay. |
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