How to build a platform tangentially to cryptocurrency

Dan Novaes, Current, Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps

Joining me is a founder I might have scared off because of my suspicion of cryptocurrency.

Dan Novaes is the founder of Current, an award-based streaming ecosystem. I’m going to keep an open mind. I want to find out how he built a business tangentially to crypto.

Dan Novaes

Current

Dan Novaes is the founder of Current, an award-based streaming ecosystem.

Andrew: Hey there, Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, and joining me is an entrepreneur that I think I might have scared off a little bit. I nearly might have scared you off, Dan. You tell me.

Dan: Yeah, maybe a bit. No, I was up for a challenge, yeah.

Andrew: Dan Novaes is the founder of Current Media. It’s a reward-based streaming ecosystem that rewards users for attention and data while consuming content. The reason that I feel like I might have scared him off for a bit was he’s got a cryptocurrency, and I’ve found that any time an entrepreneur has anything to do with cryptocurrency, it either goes over my head or there’s something weird going on that hurts my reputation to even be involved with.

And so I’ve been really scared, and I told him, “Look. I’ll just be open with you about my skepticism around...

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