In the fifth episode of the Crypto Valley Visionaries Podcast, we sit down with Daniel Haudenschild, founder and CEO of SIBEX. Daniel is also the Crypto Valley Association president and has over 16 years of experience as a CEO and partner in a well-known consulting firm behind him. We talked to Daniel about the most valuable learnings from his corporate career that helped him build his startup. We talk about the importance of having a mentor and the challenges of remote work.

Today, we sit down with Christian Decker, the Bitcoin core developer, and the first doctor of philosophy in Bitcoin. Christian became a Bitcoin enthusiast from the very beginning. In this episode, we talk with Christian about the early days of the Bitcoin community in Switzerland, why he chose Bitcoin for his Ph.D., and how it is to work in a team distributed across three continents.

In this episode, we talk with Luka about the early days of Crypto Valley, when the Ethereum Foundation decided to settle in Switzerland. We also talk about how it was to build-up a large law firm MME from zero and to co-found one of the first two Swiss licensed crypto banks, Sygnum.

Today we get to sit down with Mona El Isa, the founder, and CEO of Melonport and Avantgarde Finance. In this episode, we talk with Mona about what made her succeed as a trader in Goldman Sachs. We also talk about how she overcame her first business failure and how after becoming interested in blockchain, she started a company that successfully built and released an asset management blockchain protocol.

Today we get to sit down with Niklas Nikolajsen, the founder and chairman of the board of Bitcoin Suisse. After he discovered Bitcoin, Niklas moved from Denmark to Switzerland with the idea to start a company that will work with Bitcoin. After his arrival to Switzerland, Niklas worked as a consultant in one of the Swiss big banks. He managed to convince some of the people around him to invest in Bitcoin. Those people later became his partners and together they founded Bitcoin Suisse in 2013. Today, it is said that Niklas is a Bitcoin multimillionaire. He owns a castle on the lake and is one of the most well-known figures in the Swiss blockchain scene. In this episode, we talk with Niklas about the importance of following your dreams, being persistent, and not giving up...even when you face disbelief by people around you. We also talk about how it is it to grow a company from a small startup to a company valued at almost 303 million CHF. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode!