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, Bensonoff is joined by Nathaniel Whittemore, curator of Long Reads Sunday and cryptocurrency communications consultant.
Nathaniel Whittemore is the curator of Long Reads Sunday, as well as being a livestreamer, and independent consultant for multiple crypto projects and companies. Before diving headlong into cryptocurrency, Whittemore brokered startup partnerships with Fortune 100s, invested as a VC in education tech startups, helped launch Change.org, and built a global program design center for high impact student service at his alma mater Northwestern University.
Check out his website http://whittemore.io/ or follow him on Twitter @nlw
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Background
03:14 Change.org
04:10 Life in Egypt
05:20 Marketing and crypto
08:20 Crypto and the global talent pool
10:30 VC’s and remote work
11:38 The most important thing in crypto right now
15:00 Ethereum’s competitors
18:55 Decentralization in the crypto market
24:30 Crypto-based payment services
27:00 Tether and controversies
34:22: Banking legacy double standards
35:33 Securitization and tokenization
37:44 Evolving tokens
39:57 Lightning round
43:57 Conclusion
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