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Why the CEO of New York Life Just Joined the Board of One of Bitcoin's Fastest-Growing Companies
The news comes just days after NYDIG’s announcement of a $200 million financing round including New York Life, Mass Mutual and George Soros as investors.
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The news comes just days after NYDIG’s announcement of a $200 million financing round including New York Life, Mass Mutual and George Soros as investors.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper.
Today on The Breakdown, NLW catches up on the news from the past few days, looking at:
- NFTs heating up – and capturing some negative attention in the process
- Infrastructure acquisitions and M&A heat up
- Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act 2021
- Coinbase’s $100B valuation
- NYDIG’s $200M round and new board member
See also: Meet the $10B Asset Manager With a 10,000 BTC Treasury, feat. NYDIG’s Robby Gutmann
Image credit: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Image/Getty Images
HOST
NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

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