At a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco last week, Dan Morehead, founder of the San Francisco-based hedge fund Pantera Capital, sat down with seed investor and venture advisor Semil Shah to talk Bitcoin. Morehead knows Bitcoin as well as anyone. After logging time at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, then joining Tiger Management, where he […]
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StrictlyVC: April 20, 2015
Hi, and happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a wonderful weekend. —– Top News in the A.M. Nokia is reportedly plotting a return to the consumer phone market in 2016.San Francisco denizens face an ugly reality. Phone numbers with 415 are running so low that phone companies have begun assigning numbers starting with area code 628. […]
Wences Casares on the Future of Xapo (and Bitcoin)
Wences Casares is among the most-trusted proponents of the digital currency bitcoin. Indeed, last year, Casares – a serial entrepreneur who previously ran the digital wallet service Lemon (acquired by LifeLock in late 2013) – raised $41 million for his now 40-person, Palo Alto, Ca.-based company, Xapo, including from Benchmark and Fortress Investment Group. That […]
Tyler Winklevoss on the Positive Impact of “The Social Network”
By Semil Shah Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins who remain best known for their legal fight with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — and the ensuing depiction of that battle in “The Social Network” — have moved on from those days. Still, speaking for both men, Tyler Winklevoss recently agreed to share some thoughts about […]
Investing the Winklevoss Way
By Semil Shah Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the 6-foot-five-inch, Olympic-rowing twins who remain best known for their legal battles with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, could have taken the money they were eventually awarded in the case (a reported $65 million shared with partner Divya Narendra) and hit the beach. They decided to become full-time investors […]
A Bitcoin Bear in Silicon Valley, It’s True
Well, yesterday was crazy. Newsweek published a story saying it had finally found the elusive original creator behind the digital currency bitcoin. People on Reddit then went nuts, arguing that the world should leave the guy alone. On Twitter, journalists then weighed in on whether Newsweek had put his life at risk, before a gaggle of them in […]
I Listened to the Winklevii So You Don’t Have To
Yesterday, at the New York Times’ annual Dealbook conference, financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin sat down with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who long ago moved on from their battle with Facebook to become enthusiastic backers of the digital currency bitcoin. Little wonder: The twins began buying bitcoins at $9 apiece in the summer of […]