Bitcoin and Regulation: Lessons from the Early Days of Skype
Michael Jackson, former COO of Skype and current venture capital investor at Mangrove Capital Partners, explores how bitcoin companies can learn from the early struggles Skype had with regulators across the globe. For all the differences between Skype and bitcoin, there are many similarities. Both products use fundamental changes in technology to enable new opportunities, and they both remove the existing organizational hierarchy of their respective industry. As such, parallels can be made and valuable lessons can be learned from the early days of Skype. The bitcoin industry seems to be....
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Michael Jackson is an engineer, entrepreneur and investor at Mangrove Capital Partners. Michael started working at Skype back in 2004 and until 2007, helping to create corporate partnerships and develop the company during his tenure period. At Skype, Michael gained a vast amount of experience and market know-how with respect to distributed P2P networks; he also understands what is needed to gain mass adoption of game-changing, disruptive technology from both legal and business perspectives. Michael’s Bio on the Mangrove Capital Partners’ website reads: “I met the Mangrove team during my....
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