EP 559: JSX Exchange Launches To Sell Computational Power to Financial Firms with CEO Andrew Gryaznov

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Gryaznov. He’s an artificial intelligence and a cloud computing evangelist based in Dublin, Moscow. He’s the founder of JSX Exchange – the cloud computing commodity exchange and has built several other services and tools ranging from SshTo.net, Plottico, and many others. Andrew is also a telecom and Linux expert and finalist at the GSOC 2005 Summit.

Famous Five:

Favorite Book? – Startup Owner’s Manual
What CEO do you follow? – Brad Katsuyama
Favorite online tool? — Trello
Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— That depends
If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Andrew wished he was more mindful of the global market

Time Stamped Show Notes:

01:09 – Nathan introduces Andrew to the show
01:48 – Andrew shares his vision for why he built JSX Exchange
- 01:51 – Computation will be the most influential resource
03:05 – JSX Exchange has invented a way to commoditize cloud computation
03:53 – Andrew shares what people without JSX Exchange are doing
05:02 – Andrew mentions how the financial exchange space can use JSX Exchange
- 05:48 – Banks may own supercomputers
07:03 – JSX Exchange works with financial institutions who want accurate trade
07:46 – JSX Exchange wants to expand out of the financial space
08:18 – JSX Exchange is currently in pre-seed stage
- 09:15 – Irish investors have put out less than $1M
- 09:24 – It is an equity round
09:34 – Andrew was a solo founder for a period of time, but expanded
10:15 – Andrew has a team of 5 people who are all co-founders
10:50 – The Famous Five

3 Key Points:

There is a possibility that computation will be the most influential resource.
Credibility is needed if you want to be successful in your space.
Believe in your product.

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0:49.7	Nathan Lackey here, this episode 559, coming up tomorrow morning, you'll learn from Steve Benson.
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1:06.0	Folks, good morning, Nathan Lacka here.
1:08.0	Our guest today is Andrew Grisnov.
1:10.0	He's an artificial intelligence in cloud computing evangelist based in Dublin and Moscow.
1:15.2	He's the founder of JSX Exchange, the cloud computing commodity exchange,
1:19.6	and has built several other services and tools, ranging from shto.net, Plotico, and many, many others,
1:26.5	including one that bonds Linux, Damon. Andrew is also a telecom and Linux expert.O.net, Plotico, and many, many others, including one that bonds Linux, Damon.
1:29.3	Andrew is also a telecom and Linux expert and finalist at the GSOC-2005 summit.
1:35.8	All right, Andrew, are you ready to take us to the top?
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