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Programming Throwdown

Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts with Amy Wan, CEO of Sagewise. Amy has a legal background and combines this with expertise in cryptocurrency, blockchain, ICOs, and smart contracts.

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0:00.0

Episode 74, cryptocurrency and smart contracts with Amy Wann.

0:20.5

Take it away, Patrick.

0:22.4

Hey, everyone. We're here with Amy, the CEO of SageWise. And we're glad to have you here

0:28.0

of what is obviously a much discussed topic of the day with anything dealing with cryptocurrency

0:34.6

seems to make people excited. and increasingly more peers and random

0:39.2

people we meet tend to want to perk up and involve themselves in any conversation involving

0:44.6

that, mostly because I think they're going to get rich. But anyways, so Amy, why don't you take a

0:48.6

second to introduce yourself and tell us what you, what you're doing. Sure.

0:56.7

So thanks so much for having me on the show, guys.

0:57.9

My name is Amy Wan.

1:06.2

I am founder and CEO of SageWise, which is a dispute resolution infrastructure for smart contracts.

1:09.3

My background is actually, I'm an attorney by trading.

1:12.8

So, you know, I started my career off in the federal government doing international affairs, international regulatory and trade type issues.

1:19.8

When I moved from D.C. back to California, there were obviously no free trade agreements to

1:26.5

negotiate out here in California.

1:28.3

And so, you know, kind of had to start my career all over again.

1:33.0

It was basically General Counsel and employee number one of an early stage real estate crowdfunding

1:38.9

startup.

1:39.6

And then from there, I went to become partner at a boutique securities law firm and got to a point in

1:47.0

my career really where I just couldn't imagine practicing law the same way for the next 30, 40 years.

1:57.6

So I actually left my partnership at my law firm and started this company. And the

2:03.6

original purpose of this company was really to automate my job as an attorney. So that's what I did.

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