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Martin Koppelmann

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

But again, eBay, Uber, Airbnb, all those we assume will be replaced by decentralized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

Okay, binary options, some insurance products, but in general, all kind of information aggregation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

So instead of having different analysts posting what will be the next revenue of the company, we will have markets for those things and we will aggregate all the forecasts to one number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

So, yeah, we did one of those token sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

We issued something that will play a role in our platform, a token.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

And yeah, we sold it and raised GNO tokens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

So we sold a few of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

So 4% of our tokens for $12.5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

Yes, I mean, technically we sold them for 250,000 Ether.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

That's a blockchain currency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

At the time where we did the sale, this Ether was worth 12.5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

That's why I'm saying we raised $12.5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

Fortunately, right now, this Ether is worth much more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

Now it's in the range of $60, $70 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

And we still hold the Ether.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

It's two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?

So the token is now separate from the ether, so the token has its own value.