#008 Geoff W. - CEO Perk.Exchange

11/04/21 • 30 min

Geoff Whittington is the founder and CEO of Perk.Exchange, a rewards platform for consumer and commercial software based on the Solana and Kin ecosystems. He has worked on various Kin projects in the past including Kinetik, a social fitness application, and KinBuyButton - a ReactJS component for using Kin in web projects. Geoff can be reached on Twitter @PerkExchange

In this discussion we talk about Geoff’s background and intro to crypto, why he joined the Kin Ecosystem as a developer, origins of Per.Exchange, pivoting into the rewards and recognition market, how perk exchange is being used today, entry into the Solana hackathon and future exploration, how funding earn rewards works and why he’s excited for the future of Kin.

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#007 Andrew M. - CTO Kinny Technologies

Andrew Mocol is the Chief Technology Officer of Kinny Technologies and is also a Lead Software Engineer for a cyber security startup. He is an early bitcoiner and a Kin TDE participant, and has been following along since Ted's first announcement at Token Summit in 2017. He has spent most of his career working with the US Marine Corps both as an Active Duty Marine and later as a contractor writing software.

In this conversation we talk about Andrew’s military background, approaching crypto with a software development mindset as an early bitcoiner, his experience during the Mt. Gox hack, the 10,000 bitcoin pizza story, his conviction to invest in Kin, what the community can expect from Kinny Technologies, the Kin flutter/dart SDK and lastly his views on the future of Kin.

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#009 William M. - Exec. Chairman, Kin Foundation

William Mougayar is an early blockchain thought leader, entrepreneur, best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016, translated in 10 languages), and investor in several blockchain projects and companies. He was a special Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation in 2014 and is currently a Board Member at Swiss-based Blockchain Valley Ventures. William is the producer of The Token Summit, and manages WMX, an Iconomi cryptocurrency index. He is presently the Executive Chairman of the Kin Foundation. He previously held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and founded 3 startups. Some of William's early investments include Dapper Labs (creators of CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot and Flow), Blockstack, Ethereum, Filecoin, Kin, OpenBazaar and Roll.

In this conversation we talk about William’s background and intro to crypto, his experience advising Vitalik and the team during the early days of Ethereum, his introduction to Kin and how he differentiates Kin, his long term vision focused on the developer and creator economy, his views on moving towards a DAO model and the hype around meme coins and exchanges.

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