My guest today is Mike Belshe, Founder and CEO of BitGo. But before that, he used what he learned at Netscape to help Google develop Chrome. Like many of us, Belshe stored his first Bitcoin on an old laptop. But after his investor friends started sending their digital assets his way, that "old laptop" was suddenly worth millions. Here's how his quest to secure those assets eventually became BitGo.
00:00 ・ Introductions
01:58 ・ Getting started at Netscape
04:00 ・ What was it like to work during the early days?
06:32 ・ What was before Netscape?
08:30 ・ Why does Belshe still gravitate towards building?
10:00 ・ Dot com bubble, similar to digital assets?
12:23 ・ Building a search for email tool, and getting bought by Microsoft
15:01 ・ How was Google's approach to engineering different?
17:15 ・ Why did Netscape fail?
19:15 ・ Raising capital for BitGo
20:16 ・ Discovering crypto, putting $20 million into his couch, and building BitGo
29:00 ・ What was the crypto space like at the time?
30:40 ・ Why is BitGo focussed on institutional?
33:50 ・ How is this different from traditional finance?
43:40 ・ What's in BitGo's future?
47:40 ・ RAPID FIRE
51:40 ・ JASON ANSWERS
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