Dante Disparte (Circle) - Ethical Crypto Innovation

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dante Disparte is chief strategy officer and head of global policy at Circle, a global financial technology firm at the center of digital currency innovation and open financial infrastructure. He is responsible for overseeing the company strategy, communications, policy and public affairs. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Disparte discusses important lessons from high-profile failures in the financial tech industry and his hopes and advice for building an ethical and innovative future for blockchain and crypto-based companies.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:07.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:11.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:15.0	Welcome YouTube and the Stanford community to the final Stanford Entrepreneurals
0:20.0	Seminar this season.
0:22.6	It's so great to have you here today for our final ETL.
0:26.4	I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management, Science
0:29.4	and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:31.2	and the director of Alchemist, an accelerator
0:33.6	for enterprise startups.
0:36.0	This ETL series, as you may well know by now, is brought to you by
0:39.4	STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, and Basis, the Business Association
0:44.9	of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. Today, we are thrilled to end the quarter with Dante
0:51.2	Desparte, who's joining us at ETL today. Dante is the chief strategy
0:56.3	officer and head of global policy at Circle, a global financial technology firm at the center
1:02.6	of digital currency innovation and open financial infrastructure. Circle is the issuer of the digital
1:09.8	dollar currency known as USDC, also known as a stable coin.
1:14.1	USDC has over $40 billion in circulation and over $100 billion has been redeemed.
1:20.6	I mentioned that because liquidity is an important thing to highlight these days during crypto.
1:26.8	And Circle's mission is to raise global economic
1:29.7	prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value. Dante knows a thing or two about
1:35.6	global economic prosperity. Dante grew up in Puerto Rico, which he has described as a place
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