Blockchain Startup Aims To Revolutionize Bitcoin 2.0 Landscape
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Mark Smargon, co-founder of Colu explains that they are looking to give users the ability to exchange digital cash directly to support local businesses and encourages sustainable and equitable economic growth. Additionally when users shop local with the app, they get additional discounts and locals only offers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.9 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:26.8 | This is Tracy Murda on behalf of Richard Jacobs here at Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:32.5 | Today I have a wonderful guest. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm very excited to welcome Mark Smargon, the co-founder of Kulu. |
| 0:39.2 | Mark, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:41.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:44.6 | So, Mark, you're the VP and co-founder of this startup, which I guess the goal is aimed |
| 0:51.3 | to revolutionize sort of the way we use Bitcoin. Tell me a little bit |
| 0:55.5 | about how you got started in this technology in the first place and in digital currency |
| 1:01.6 | and how you started Kulu.com. Yeah. So Kalu is trying to revolutionize the way that we use money. |
| 1:12.6 | So Bitcoin is for us the biggest ecosystem for digital money, for digital assets in the world. |
| 1:21.6 | So it was a great place to start for us. |
| 1:25.6 | Before Kolo, I founded an Israeli exchange called |
| 1:29.9 | the BitGo and before that had a software development company for 15 years and |
| 1:39.1 | and three years ago I bought my first bitcoins and I'm in this community ever since. |
| 1:46.6 | And for me, Bitcoin is not only for me, but Bitcoin has a, like sparked the discussion |
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