Starting a Bitcoin Startup During the COVID-19 Crisis, Feat. Yan Pritzker

With companies closing, unemployment rising and investors spooked in the age of the pandemic, NLW speaks with Swan BTC co-founder Yan Pritzker about the experience of launching a startup in the hyper-competitive world of Bitcoin.

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Yan Pritzker is the CTO and cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, an automated bitcoin-only investing app aiming to be the best on-ramp to bitcoin. He is also the author of "Inventing Bitcoin."

On this episode, he and NLW discuss:

• How emigrating from the Soviet Union taught Yan about capital controls
• Buying bitcoin at $30 in 2011
• Why the type of capital available shapes what type of startups entrepreneurs found
• Why venture capitals focused investments away from bitcoin
• The emergence of a bitcoin-only startup scene
• Starting a startup during the COVID-19 crisis
• Why bitcoin’s scarcity is its most important property

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