This entrepreneur wants to build the Goldman Sachs of Bitcoinf you want to work in finance, then you’ve set your sights on institutions like Citibank or Deutsche Bank. Those are the kind of places where, once you’ve got a foot in the door, you’re not going to leave without a good reason.
That’s what makes the story of BitMEX co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes interesting. After graduation from Wharton Business School in 2008, Hayes moved to Hong Kong to work in both Deutsche Bank and Citi. But he left the big banking world in mid-2013 to devote his time and energy into what he thinks will be the future of finance: Bitcoin. Specifically, Bitcoin financial products.
It’s one thing to swap out some USD for the digital currency and use it to buy items online, but it’s quite another to use Bitcoin to play the stock market or enter derivatives. Building a platform to facilitate that type of transaction – and getting people to trust it – is no light undertaking. But Arthur, along with Samuel Reed and Ben Delo, decided they were the right team for the job.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/meet-the-goldman-sachs-of-bitcoin-115120200459_1.html
