Munair is a Wharton graduate, information technologist, engineer, entrepreneur, fitness model, Capoeira teacher, aspiring yogi and marketing strategist presently focused on cryptocurrency ventures. He also contributes regularly to CoinCentral, a Cryptocurrency news website.
We discuss South Korea, Fluidity, Ethereal, Consensus, and our Adventures at Blockchain week.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- Munair's story and background growing up in the Carribean and US before eventually moving to South Korea
- How he got in to the Blockchain space
- An inside look at the community and scene in South Korea
- A recap of Fluidity, Ethereal and Consensus for Blockchain week NYC 2018
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio
Tim Francisco has a background in B2B enterprise sales of hardware and software. He has worked at such companies as Dell, EMC, Cisco as well as the AI and deep neural network industry.
Now Tim is helping build the Blockchain economy by providing consulting and introducing companies to platforms, services and other valuable information needed to BUIDL.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- Tim's story and background growing up in Socal
- How he was working at Cisco when the Internet as we know it didn't exist
- An inside look at working in the early tech industry (pre-Google and Amazon)
- The state of technology and the industry at that time
- How many of the attitudes and patterns with people played out already in the Dotcom era
- How the parties were back in the early Dotcom days (with Lambos too)
- How were are in a software revolution and why we're excited to BUIDL
- Tims bump into Vinny Lingham and their beer vending machine using Civic
- How Tim bumped into some who's who like the creator of Siacoin and CTO of Zencash
- How we got to hit after parties attended by OGs like Charlie Lee, Fluffy Pony and Erik Voorhees
- About Tim's rim to rim canyon run in the Grand Canyon
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio
Brian Deery is the Chief Scientist at Factom, a platform that stores the world's data on a decentralized system. Using Blockchain technology Factom facilitates smart contracts, digital assets and database integrity.
Brian is an early innovator in technology. He built a self-driving Lotus Elise which competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge. The race competition included a precursor to Google’s driverless car.
Previously, he served as an R&D Engineer at Pentair, Ltd where he designed and brought to market an underwater energy harvesting device. Earlier, he managed the quality control robots certifying ~$30M of yearly production at MTS Systems Corporation."
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- The story behind how Brian got on the Blockchain path
- How Brian identified the connection between computers and money
- About how Brian won a Federal Reserve sponsored hack-a-thon
- How Brian first met Paul Snow of Factom (then named Notary Chain)
- Brian's view of Blockchains and its purpose
- What scares Brian about the future of Blockchain development
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio