Sentences with phrase «early internet investor»

«In five years you are going to try to go buy coffee with fiat currency and they are going to laugh at you because you're not using crypto,» the early internet investor said.

The early internet investor reiterated his bullish call for bitcoin to hit $ 250,000 by 2022, and elaborated on use cases.

Early internet investor Tim Draper says bitcoin will be bigger than his early investments in Tesla, Hotmail and Skype combined.

Not exact matches

Hillhouse, one of China's biggest investors, is led by chairman Zhang Lei, an early backer of Chinese Internet giant Tencent.

Its distribution partner in China and investor, internet giant Tencent Holdings, saw Riot Games» meteoric rise and wanted to buy the company, offering $ 400 million in early 2011 for a 93 percent stake.

The duo's broader, pragmatic vision attracted big investors — including Goldman Sachs, Chinese Internet giant Baidu, and venture capitalist Jim Breyer, one of the earliest backers of Facebook.

With the foresight to recognize that the Web was going to change the world, Chris became the first investor in Internet Capital Group, one of the early Web - based B2B businesses.

«Khosrowshahi seems like a great choice, someone with both operational and financial acumen who has overseen the successful expansion of a respected major consumer internet brand,» Salil Pitroda, an early Uber investor, told Quartz.

Since 2000 HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has been investing in internet and technology companies across several fund generations and is one of the most successful, experienced and well financed early stage and growth investors in Europe.

He is an active angel investor focusing on early stage companies in the smart grid, retail automation, data security, Internet platforms, and medical technology markets.

As reported by CoinDesk, China's National Internet Finance Association, a self - regulatory organization under the PBoC, spoke out in early January against «disguised» ICO activities that went overseas and yet were accessible to domestic investors.

Hans Tung joined GGV Capital in 2013 as a managing partner to focus on consumer mobile internet, cross-border ecommerce, IoT, and mobile social communication investments in both China and the U.S. Hans was one of the earliest investors in, and a former board member of, Xiaomi.

Earlier in his career, he gained experience working with private equity investors as CEO of an Internet portal services startup called Springbow Solutions.

Sometimes you might get lucky for a short time — for example, in the early 2000s, buyers of Internet start - ups made far more profit than investors who stuck with well - established companies.

Micky Malka, founder of Ribbit Capital, one of Coinbase's other Series A investors, said he likens Bitcoin and its skeptics to when the Internet started becoming popular in the early 1990s.

As reported by CoinDesk, China's National Internet Finance Association, a self - regulatory organization under the PBoC, spoke out in early January against «disguised» ICO activities that went overseas and yet were accessible to domestic investors.

Yu was a successful early cryptocurrency investor who became an internet celebrity with videos that received tens of millions of views.

To be sure, Ravikant has skin in the game here (or, if you prefer to think of it this way, he's talking his book)-- he was an early investor in Blockstack, a startup trying to build a new decentralized internet where users control their data.

The company is funded by some big - name investors, including Goldman Sachs, Chinese internet company Baidu and Jim Breyer, a tech venture capitalist that got behind Facebook in its early days.

Cuban, one of the most accomplished early investors in the digital media sector of the internet boom, sold his company, Broadcast.com, for $ 5.7 billion in 1999.

Additional participants included MENA - focused venture capital firm Wamda Capital, early Internet entrepreneur Samih Toukan, serial industry investor Digital Currency Group and a group of unnamed angel investors.

Two months earlier, over pork chops and potatoes at his gracefully appointed home, Polychron sketched out the issues playing heavily on his mind: the swirl of inaccurate real estate data on the Internet, the ongoing debate about tax reform and what that might mean for home owners and property investors, and the need to engage NAR members on a range of issues.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A tipping point may be near for U.S. investors seeking to benefit from crowdfunding in real estate, an industry that is a clear winner in the early stages of raising capital for small businesses over the Internet.