Michael Terpin

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I've spent my career creating innovative new businesses (sometimes even new industries), as well as advising and investing. Since 2013, I've been primarily focused on bitcoin and crypto (with a more recent focus on decentralized AI). Somewhere along the way, CNBC called me "the Godfather of Crypto" and it seems to have stuck. Currently, I run Transform Ventures, a blockchain and AI advisory and venture studio. I also created and manage Transform Group, the pioneering blockchain and Web3 PR agency (400+ clients since 2013, including launches of Ethereum and Tether). I also created CoinAgenda (now rebranded as Tokenize), the leading conference series connecting mainstream investors with blockchain and cryptocurrency investments, and BitAngels, the first crypto angel group, which I started in early 2013 with industry legend David Johnston, later co-founding the Dapps Fund in early 2014, one of the first crypto VCs. Prior to turning my nearly exclusive focus to crypto, I founded Market Wire, which was originally launched in 1994 as Internet Wire, the first Internet-based company newswire, where I raised $18 million from top-tier investors including Hummer Winblad and Sequoia Capital. F

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