Daniel Levine (YC 13), Stanford MBA and Google Product Management Intern
“I haven’t seen any proven, slam-dunk use cases yet. If you start to see a few of those, then the space obviously gains in merit.”
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Sarah Meyohas (Yale MFA 15), Inventor of BitchCoin and Director of MEYOHAS Gallery
“The way that artists give value to photographs is by creating scarcity, or by limiting the number of prints they create. It’s really no different than the government printing money and limiting supply.”
Vincent McPhillip (YC 10), Head of Community at Pi Network
“I kept asking myself, ‘Why can’t people generate wealth for these important acts of service that they provide to each other?’ This question was at the heart of my journey into crypto and blockchain.”
Sandra Ro (YC 96), CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council
“What I see here is not just tech but a convergence of tech and data with society, law, regulation, money, financial services, and other fields in the humanities.”
Evin McMullen (YC 12), Founder and Project Lead of Stow Protocol at ConsenSys
“Some people have a vegan phase when they go to college– I had a decentralization and structured data phase.”
Natan Sachs on Israel’s Elections, Anti-Solutionism, the Trump Peace Plan and 2020
“If you ask them—the Israeli right wing—“Which do you choose,” they’d say democracy. But in practice they’re choosing the status quo, and the status quo is not static. It’s moving towards, increasingly, a one-state reality where Palestinians cannot vote.”
Gavin Myers (YC 99), Co-Founder and General Partner of Prudence Holdings
“We flew over to this conference in Amsterdam in 2014, and we were early enough to crypto that we could walk up to booths manned by the founders of Coinbase, Blockchain, Xapo, and Ripple.”
Yale Alumni Lead Way on Blockchain-based Private Placements
“We see Blockchain as a way to bring financial opportunity,” Mr. Heyn says to The Politic. “It’s a great way to include small private companies, he continues.”