Reid Hoffman, Co-founder and Chairman of Linkedin

Reid Hoffman, Co-founder and Chairman of Linkedin

Reid Hoffman, Co-founder and Chairman of Linkedin

Biography

Reid Hoffman is the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn.Currently he is an active partner at Greylock Partners and has an estimated Net Worth of 1.9 Billion. 

Hoffman received his Bachelors of Science from Stanford University in 1990. He then went on to get Master Studies from Wolfson College, Oxford University in 1993.

Hoffman was a Board of Director in the early days of Paypal, eventually becoming the Chief Operating Officer for some time.

Twitter: @reidhoffman

 

Reid Hoffman Bitcoin Quotes

  • “I think its an incredible system.thats created a ledger that is across the whole world for it can be money but it can also be other things” 2014 [source]
  • “Bitcoin is my five year investment plan.” 2014 [source]
  • “One, it’s an asset like digital gold 2.0. Two, it’s a currency in as much a currency is like the digital app that allows your to transact and trade. And three, its also a platform where you can build financial and other products on top of it” 2015 [source]

 

Involvement with Bitcoin

  • Reid Hoffman has invested in several Bitcoin companies including Xapo, Blockstream, and others. He recently funded a “Bitcoin Rap Battle” video: [source]

 

Media Sources

  • Why Billionaire Reid Hoffman is betting big on Bitcoin: 2015 [source]
  • The technology that Reid Hoffman thinks will take over our financial future. 2015 [source]
  • Bitcoin, the new internet. 2018 [source]
  • Bitcoin Rap Battle. 2019 [source]

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Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz

Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz

Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz

Biography

Marc Andreessen is co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. Marc is widely known for co-founding Netscape, which was the first widely used web browser. Netscape was sold to AOL for $4.2 Billion.He founded several other companies previously, one being Opsware which he sold to Hewlett-Packard Andreessen is on the Board of Directors at Hewlet-Packard, eBay, and Facebook. 

Marc went to the University of Illinois and graduated with a degree in computer science. 

He is widely outspoken to be a proponent of Bitcoin.

Marc Andreessen has confirmed investing close to $50 Million in Bitcoin related start-ups.

Twitter: @pmarca

 

Marc Andreessen Bitcoin Quotes

  • “Bitcoin is still working today, just as it was last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. By all of the noise and all of the stuff and all of the crashes and this and that and the other thing. It just continues to work. It just is. Its becoming like air or water. It just is. Like it or hate it. It just is. We are very excited and are going to continue to bet against it.” 2018 [source]
  • “Bitcoin is a classic network effect, a positive feedback loop. The more people who use Bitcoin, the more valuable Bitcoin is for everyone who uses it, and the higher the incentive for the next user to start using the technology. Bitcoin shares this network effect property with the telephone system, the web, and popular internet services like eBay and Facebook.” 2018: [source
  • “I compare it to the Internet. The Internet was a new way to transmit data. Bitcoins a new way to transmit money. It’s going to take a long time. The good news it’s a big opportunity. Money is a very big deal, so if you can build a new way to deal with money, it’s very important and valuable. It just takes time.” 2014: {source]
  • “The new things just look weird and scary…the exact same thing happened with the early internet” 2014 [source]
  • “The smart people in the Government have figured out that Bitcoin may be an enormous ally to them, especially to counter terrorism.” 2014 [source]

 

Involvement with Bitcoin

  • Marc Andreessen has deployed close to $50 million in Bitcoin related startups [source]
  • He has also Launched a $350 million crypto currency fund and is a founding member of the Libra Association [source]

 

Media Sources

  • Marc Andreessen on Bitcoin, Money, and God with Tim Ferris: 2018 [source]
  • Marc Andreessen is in Bitcoin for the long run: 2014 [source]
  • Marc Andreessen sings Bitcoin Praises: 2014 [source]
  • Marc Andreessen is excited about Bitcoin; 2014 [source]
  • Bitcoin Fireside Chat with Marc Andreessen: 2014 [source]
  • Marc Andreessen and Tim Ferris Interview: 2016 [source]

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Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Summers​, Former Secretary of the Treasury

Biography

Lawrence Summers is an American Economist who was the Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton. Additionally Lawrence was the director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2010. Summers was also the Chief Economist and VP of Development Economics of the World Bank in 1991-1993.

Lawrence attended MIT when he was 16 and eventually graduated from Harvard receiving his PHD. He is currently a Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and previously was the President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006. His background is economics teaching at Harvard.

After Summers left Harvard, he worked freelance for financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, and JP Morgan Chase.

Twitter: @LHSummers

Lawrence Summers Bitcoin Quotes

  • “Until now whenever we’ve needed to transfer money we’ve had to rely on a third party, whether it be a bank, a clearing house or a payment network.Bitcoin offers, for the first time, a method for transferring value and making payments from anywhere to anywhere, in real-time, without any intermediary. This could mean we soon see many billions of people sending bitcoins every day as easily as they currently send a text message” 2015 [source]
  • “I’m not ready to stand with those who are sure they have seen the future here, but it seems to me that it’s a serious mistake to write this off as either ill conceived or illegitimate” 2014 [source]
  • “It seems to me that the people who confidently reject all the innovation here (in new payment and monetary systems) are on the wrong side of history” 2014 [source]
  • “Is the blockchain technology going to be fundamental? I think the answer is overwhelmingly likely to be yes. Is bitcoin going to be a valuable store of value, the same way as people use gold? I don’t know, but I think that certainly the answer is “no” doesn’t seem like the right position to take” 2016 [source]
  • “(Finance) is ripe for disruption” 2014 [source]
  • “I think Bitcoin has the potential to be a very, very important development” 2014 [source]
  • “Very serious economist thought that the internet was going to be no more important than the fax machine, so I’m not willing to dismiss Bitcoin” 2014 [source]

 

Involvement with Bitcoin

  • Lawrence Summers is on the advisory board of Xapo which is a Bitcoin wallet exchange. [source

 

Media Sources

  • Bitcoin and the future of Payments Technology – Fireside chat with Lawrence Summers. 2015 [source]

 

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Jerome Powell, 16th Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Jerome Powell, 16th Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Jerome Powell, 16th Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Biography

Jerome “Jay” Powell is the 16th Chair of the Federal Reserve, he has also served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2012. While Mr. Powell is not a Bitcoin advocate, his position as the Chair of the US Central bank offers a unique perspective into the potential monetary revolution at hand. 

 

Jerome Powell Bitcoin Quotes

  • When asked about if there is a potential for a cryptocurrency to diminish or remove the need for a reserve currency he replied: “Things like that are possible, but we really haven’t seen them, we haven’t seen widespread adoption. Bitcoin is a good example. Really almost no one uses Bitcoin for payments, they use it more as an alternative to gold really, it’s a store of value, it’s a speculative store of value like gold. People, of course, have been talking about this since cryptocurrencies emerged. But we haven’t seen it, and that’s not to say we won’t see it. And if we do see it yes you could see a return to an era in the United States when we had many different currencies, the so-called national-banking era.” [source]
  • “Really almost no one uses bitcoin for payments — they use it as an alternative to gold. It’s a store of value, a speculative store of value, like gold.” [source]
  • “People have been talking about this [removing a reserve currency] since cryptocurrencies emerged, and we haven’t seen it, but that’s not to say we won’t see it. But if we do see it, we may return to an era in the United States where we saw many different currencies in the national banking era.” [source]

 

Involvement with Bitcoin

  • N/A

 

Media Sources

  • Congressional Hearing on Libra  [source]

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Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital

Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital

Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital

Biography

Dan is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital which focuses on Bitcoin. Dan previously was the CFO at Tiger Management. 

Dan also has traditional financial experience as an Executive at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Dan is on the Board of Directors at Bitstamp, a large Bitcoin Exchange

Twitter: @dan_pantera

 

Dan Morehead Bitcoin Quotes

  • “Bitcoin could reach $356,000 in a few years” July 2019 [source]
  • “Bitcoins essentially going to revolutionize currency, or money” October 2017 [source]
  • “If it (Bitcoin) does work, the upside is so high, its a rational expected thing to have in your portfolio” October 2017 [source]
  • “Bitcoin is a serial killer, it is going to go through 40 or 50 different industries” Nov 2019 [source]
  • “I believe Bitcoin is the biggest trade of our generation” Nov 2019 [source]

 

Involvement with Bitcoin

  • Dan is on the Board of Directors at Bitstamp, a large Bitcoin Exchange
  • Dan is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital which focuses on Bitcoin.

 

Media Sources

  • Unchained Podcast: Laura Shin & Dan Morehead [source]
  • Pantera’s Morehead says Bitcoin “Is a Screaming Buy” [source]
  • Real Vision: The Future of Crypto Investment [source]
  • On the cutting edge of Macro and Bitcoin Dan Tapiero and Dan Morehead ‘[source]

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