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Kevin Hurley

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

There's only so much that you can do if you're only planning on doing Lightning payments and sets. I think that you want to be able to do things like we're doing with UMA, where you can abstract even the Bitcoin portion of it away. And you can just see it as a global payments rails where anyone can transact in any currency.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

There's only so much that you can do if you're only planning on doing Lightning payments and sets. I think that you want to be able to do things like we're doing with UMA, where you can abstract even the Bitcoin portion of it away. And you can just see it as a global payments rails where anyone can transact in any currency.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And do this on an open network where I could be in Africa and send money to someone in Brazil and have it instantly land in their account at negligible fees. I think to see some of the fees that are being charged today and that it can take you five, 10 days for it to settle in your account is completely insane in this day and age.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And do this on an open network where I could be in Africa and send money to someone in Brazil and have it instantly land in their account at negligible fees. I think to see some of the fees that are being charged today and that it can take you five, 10 days for it to settle in your account is completely insane in this day and age.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And do this on an open network where I could be in Africa and send money to someone in Brazil and have it instantly land in their account at negligible fees. I think to see some of the fees that are being charged today and that it can take you five, 10 days for it to settle in your account is completely insane in this day and age.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And I think, honestly, we don't know all the use cases that will be here. I think we want to engage really heavily with the community and try to figure out What use cases are going to be the things that will take off? So we're building a platform here that we hope that others will use and bring about these new use cases that we can't foresee ourselves.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And I think, honestly, we don't know all the use cases that will be here. I think we want to engage really heavily with the community and try to figure out What use cases are going to be the things that will take off? So we're building a platform here that we hope that others will use and bring about these new use cases that we can't foresee ourselves.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And I think, honestly, we don't know all the use cases that will be here. I think we want to engage really heavily with the community and try to figure out What use cases are going to be the things that will take off? So we're building a platform here that we hope that others will use and bring about these new use cases that we can't foresee ourselves.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And we're obviously going to try to help build out as many use cases as we can. But I think what we need to make sure that we do well is build this platform in a way that college student in the dorm room can build the next great company on top of it and do that really easily.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And we're obviously going to try to help build out as many use cases as we can. But I think what we need to make sure that we do well is build this platform in a way that college student in the dorm room can build the next great company on top of it and do that really easily.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

And we're obviously going to try to help build out as many use cases as we can. But I think what we need to make sure that we do well is build this platform in a way that college student in the dorm room can build the next great company on top of it and do that really easily.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

That's probably a boring answer that you get all the time, but honestly, my family. My parents, I think, demonstrated the value of hard work throughout my childhood. And I always want to make them proud and be the absolute best version of myself that I can be. I think additionally, I had a brother, Justin, who passed away from a brain tumor. He was the most brilliant person I have ever known.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

That's probably a boring answer that you get all the time, but honestly, my family. My parents, I think, demonstrated the value of hard work throughout my childhood. And I always want to make them proud and be the absolute best version of myself that I can be. I think additionally, I had a brother, Justin, who passed away from a brain tumor. He was the most brilliant person I have ever known.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

That's probably a boring answer that you get all the time, but honestly, my family. My parents, I think, demonstrated the value of hard work throughout my childhood. And I always want to make them proud and be the absolute best version of myself that I can be. I think additionally, I had a brother, Justin, who passed away from a brain tumor. He was the most brilliant person I have ever known.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

Absolutely an incredible mind, so well-rounded. He was actually in a similar space in programming. He was actually the reason I came out to California so that I could live closer to him. And I hope to just honor him by being able to build a company that will

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

Absolutely an incredible mind, so well-rounded. He was actually in a similar space in programming. He was actually the reason I came out to California so that I could live closer to him. And I hope to just honor him by being able to build a company that will

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

Absolutely an incredible mind, so well-rounded. He was actually in a similar space in programming. He was actually the reason I came out to California so that I could live closer to him. And I hope to just honor him by being able to build a company that will

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

hopefully stand the test of time and do something that will actually help countless people with more easily moving money and being able to expand the things that they can do with their own money. And I think I want to build something that's like a little bit of a legacy that I'll look back on and be proud of and that hopefully he's looking down and is proud of as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

hopefully stand the test of time and do something that will actually help countless people with more easily moving money and being able to expand the things that they can do with their own money. And I think I want to build something that's like a little bit of a legacy that I'll look back on and be proud of and that hopefully he's looking down and is proud of as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

hopefully stand the test of time and do something that will actually help countless people with more easily moving money and being able to expand the things that they can do with their own money. And I think I want to build something that's like a little bit of a legacy that I'll look back on and be proud of and that hopefully he's looking down and is proud of as well.