Alex Mashinsky is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. Recently, he visited The Next Web Conference 2018 to promote his latest startup, Celsius Network, ‘the next generation of decentralized lending and borrowing products leveraging cryptocurrency.’ And, moreover, to share some useful advice for founders.
Mashinsky is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) with a foundational patent dating back to 1994 and is now working on MOIP (Money Over Internet Protocol) technology. He founded two of New York City’s top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000: Arbinet, with a 2004 IPO that had a market capitalization of over $750 million; and Transit Wireless, valued at $1.2 billion.