The Exchange with KB

In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In today’s episode, KB is joined by Alex Adelman, CEO & Co-founder of Lolli which rewards online shoppers with bitcoin. Learn more about our guest: Alex Adelman is the CEO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that lets people earn bitcoin when they shop online. Alex has also served as the CEO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in ’15 and then by Ebates in ’17. He has also been listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Retail & E-Commerce. Visit: www.lolli.com and follow him on Twitter: @alexadelman and @trylolli Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome and introduction 01:02 About Cosmic 03:34 Starting in E-commerce 05:53 Building the Cosmic team 09:03 Will remote work scale? 11:50 Dealing with hiring 14:13 What is Lolli? 16:57 How Lolli works 18:01 Creating accessibility 20:23 Bitcoin pushback 23:21 Challenges for Lolli 25:43 Adding other cryptos 28:14 Merchants and bitcoin volatility 28:50 Stance on Libra and stablecoins 31:54 What’s next for Lolli? 33:55 Conclusion

In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In today’s episode, KB is joined by Arianna Simpson, an early-stage investor and founder of Autonomous Partners, a fund that invests in digital assets and blockchain-based companies. Learn more about our guest: Arianna Simpson is the founder and managing partner of Autonomous Partners, an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She is also an active angel investor and venture partner at Crystal Towers Capital, an early-stage VC fund which Arianna and her partner launched in 2015. Prior to Crystal Towers, Arianna spent time working in sales and product roles at Facebook and BitGo, an enterprise security company for bitcoin and other digital currencies. Visit: https://www.ariannasimpson.com/ and follow her on Twitter: @AriannaSimpson Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:44 Background 01:49 Getting started in crypto 03:25 Believing in bitcoin 05:20 True bitcoin uses 07:46 Accepted like gold 09:02 Promising altcoins 13:36 Investing outside of blockchain 14:55 Autonomous vehicles 15:33 Unusual investments 18:05 Choosing good founders 20:23 Conquering fear 21:25 Investing based on gut 25:02 Advice for young investors 26:30 Running operations 28:44 Lightning Round 29:26 What’s next for Arianna 30:20 Conclusion

In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In the next immigrants who kick-ass instalment, KB is joined by Natalia Karayaneva, founder and CEO of Propy. Learn more about our guest: Natalia Karayaneva is the founder and CEO of a proptech company Propy, an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital, and noteworthy Forbes Contributor. Natalia boasts an impressive twelve-year track record in international real estate and real estate development prior to launching Propy, including work in blockchain. Natalia also holds qualifications in software engineering. Visit: https://propy.com/ and follow her on Twitter: @NataliePropy Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:18 Background 01:00 Starting Propy 03:20 Propy and blockchain 06:33 The potential of real estate 07:50 International real estate 08:30 The US vs the world 12:08 Blockchain in developing countries 13:37 Local vs international transactions 15:23 CEO focus 17:43 Challenges of blockchain 20:43 Industry resistance 23:51 Industry costs 27:10 Startup reception 28:14 Comparisons to the US 30:58 What’s next for Propy? 31:50 Conclusion Follow The Exchange With KB on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theexchangewithkb/

In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In this latest episode, KB is joined by Zac Prince Founder of BlockFi. Learn more about our guest: Zac Prince is the founder of BlockFi, which provides access to high-interest crypto accounts and low-cost credit products to clients worldwide. His experience also includes leadership roles at multiple successful tech companies. Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker-dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. Zac also holds qualifications from Texas State University and holds a BA in International Business. Visit: https://blockfi.com/ and follow him on Twitter: @BlockFiZac Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:36 Background 02:58 Starting BlockFi 05:13 The BlockFi business model 06:58 BlockFi cards 09:16 Crypto-backed loans 11:00 Bitcoin beyond the hype 14:00 The challenge in finding VC’s 16:00 Roadblocks to crypto adoption 18:14 What is crypto really? 20:22 BlockFi and stablecoins 22:00 Tokenizing other assets 24:00 Globalization of crypto 27:25 Savings on the blockchain 28:36 Regulation in flux 31:05 Sovereign cryptocurrencies 31:48 Regulatory clarity 34:27 What’s next for BlockFi? 35:00 Conclusion

In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In this latest episode, KB is joined by Nick Soman, CEO of Decent. Learn more about our guest: Nick Soman is the founder and CEO, of Decent, a company that is charting a new path forward for affordable health insurance in America. Nick is also a serial entrepreneur who scaled his first company to millions of users and successfully sold it to Napster prior to becoming Growth Lead at Gusto. Along with his vast experience as an entrepreneur, Soman also holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Stanford University. Visit: www.decent.com and follow him on Twitter: @decent Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:42 Background 03:30 Founding Decent 07:28 Healthcare for all 08:51 Decent in detail 12:17 Eligibility 13:25 Delivering lower-priced insurance 17:27 Decent reception 20:33 Direct primary care 23:05 The concierge option versus others 26:03 The US healthcare system 28:20 What’s driving healthcare costs? 34:33 Motivations for healthcare workers 36:29 Utilizing blockchain 39:48 Plans for Decent 41:47 Seeking allies 42:05 Conclusion