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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He was previously Director of Engineering at Coinbase, the most popular crypto-currency wallet and exchange. Prior to joining Coinbase, he spent 6 years at Google working on YouTube Mobile, Chrome OS, and the Google Play Games platform. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got

0:06.9

filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other

0:16.1

insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

0:23.6

I had no money when I started the company.

0:25.6

It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.

0:29.6

We're a bit strapped.

0:30.6

We have like 22,000 customers.

0:33.6

With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

0:43.6

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

0:48.5

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Charlie Lee. He's the creator of Lightcoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin.

0:57.4

He was previously director of engineering at Coinbase, the most popular cryptocurrency wallet and exchange.

1:03.1

Before joining Coinbase, he spent six years at Google working on YouTube mobile, ChromeOS, and the Google Play Games platform.

1:10.5

Charlie earned a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering and computer

1:13.5

science from MIT.

1:15.7

Charlie, are you ready to take us to the top?

1:17.9

Sure, definitely.

1:18.9

All right, very good.

1:19.7

So I was going to ask you, you know, Coinbase is very particular about the currencies

1:24.9

it supports and like coin is one of them.

1:26.9

I was going to say how did you

1:27.8

get in but i think i know now um well i think light coin the demand has always been there for

1:34.7

people who don't want to buy light coin easily with um with fiat currencies so and after

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