Ted Livingston is the CEO and Founder of Kik Interactive – creators of Kik – a messaging app that connects the world through chat.
After working at Blackberry, his boss encouraged him to start his own company, which he did in 2009.
That company (Kik) has since grown to 15 million monthly users, a billion-dollar valuation, $120 million dollars in venture funding, and an uber-successful $100 million-dollar ICO.
In this episode, Ted and I discuss:
His journey from Blackberry, to Kik, to Kin – which is the new cryptocurrency that powers the Kik messaging platform How back in 2010 Kik went from 0 to 1 million users in only 15 days The power of incentives in a decentralized network –and– Why Ted believes Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed, and how Kin addresses those flaws, to the point of maybe one day replacing Bitcoin as the world’s top cryptocurrency046: Ethereum 2.0 – with Lane Rettig
045: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 4/4)
044: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 3/4)
043: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 2/4)
042: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 1/4)
041: Decentralization-as-a-Service – with Blockdaemon’s Konstantin Richter
040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee
039: The Bunz App Takes Canada by Storm – with Sascha Mojtahedi
038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper
037: The Ultimate Cryptocurrency Tax Solution – with TaxToken’s Michael Foland
036: Purse.io is Making Cryptocurrency Useful – with Jordan Crawford
035: NASDAQ is Quietly Dominating Blockchain – with Johan Toll
034: CFA Institute Embraces Blockchain – with Stephen Horan
033: ICOs Go Mainstream on Indiegogo – with Jason White
032: Ocean Protocol – The Future of Data, AI and Blockchain with Trent McConaghy
031: Tech Giant IBM Goes All In on Blockchain with Jerry Cuomo
030: Blockchain will be a 10-Trillion-Dollar Industry with RBC’s Mitch Steves
029: Move Aside Blockchain – Introducing Hashgraph with Leemon Baird
028: Introducing Smart Legal Agreements and Dangers of the SAFT with Aaron Wright
027: MyEtherWallet’s Co-Founder–Taylor Monahan–Calls for More Women in Crypto
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