Why a TechCrunch Editor Left His Job for a Bitcoin Startup
Why did one of TechCrunch’s longest-serving editors leave a media giant for a bitcoin startup? For outgoing East Coast editor John Biggs, the answer is that he’s been leading one already in his spare time for the last year. Peer-to-peer payments startup Freemit has been Biggs’ passion project since December 2014, and the company has since raised more than $150,000 from angel investors, according to data from Crunchbase. Still, Biggs is just now making the leap to Freemit full-time, leaving his job late last month at a company he’d been with for nearly 10 years. According to Biggs, it was....
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