#31 Co-Founder of Ethereum Anthony Di Iorio.

Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us.We set up a link to make it easier, just go to https://ratethispodcast.com/howtobemoderatelysuccessful. We’ll drop this in the show notes too...thanks in advance!Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that powers that business,  that scales and that your users love is very difficult. In today's competitive environment, getting your software build right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team,  closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.This is where Nona can help,With a strong track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’sWe have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in blockchain application development.We also have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating internal tech teams and capabilities for our partners.So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.Head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.And now, on to the show.Today my guest is Anthony Di Iorio who is one impressive human.In 2013 Anthony funded and Co-Founded Ethereum which is, today, a decentralised blockchain protocol that in just the last 24 hours would have successfully processed over 1.2m transactions. The native cryptocurrency to Ethereum, Ether, now has a market cap of over $240bn.Anthony has invested tens of millions of dollars in numerous industries including blockchain and has launched many companies himself.His current focus and how he and I met is as the Founder and CEO of Decentral, a Toronto-based innovation hub and software development company focussed on decentralized technologies. Decentral is the creator of the Jaxx liberty wallet and platform which has had literally millions of downloads with zero marketing spend which is just mind-blowing.Previously Anthony was the Chief Digital Officer for the Toronto Stock Exchange and held an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Toronto.He has stacked up a slew of awards including:EY’s emerging entrepreneur of the year awardFintech leader of the year awardAndToronto’s list of the 50 most influential people in 2018.Apart from his razor-sharp mind and ludicrously impressive career, Anthony is a truly nice guy and someone that I really enjoy talking to. Welcome Anthony, I’m so glad you could make it.