I was fortunate enough to chat with Vinny Lingham of Civic, one of the leading cryptocurrencies in the identity space. If you don’t know who Vinny is, here’s a quick bio: Entrepreneur. Dragon. Angel. Shark. Vinny Lingham is a 4-time successful startup founder & CEO. His latest venture, Civic just sold $33 million tokens during its June 2017 token sale event. He was previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. that sold to First Data Corporation in 2014.  Vinny has appeared as one of the investors, or “dragons”, on South Africa’s Dragons’ Den reality TV series, he


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I was fortunate enough to chat with Vinny Lingham of Civic, one of the leading cryptocurrencies in the identity space. If you don’t know who Vinny is, here’s a quick bio:


Entrepreneur. Dragon. Angel. Shark. Vinny Lingham is a 4-time successful startup founder & CEO. His latest venture, Civic just sold $33 million tokens during its June 2017 token sale event. He was previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. that sold to First Data Corporation in 2014. 


Vinny has appeared as one of the investors, or “dragons”, on South Africa’s Dragons’ Den reality TV series, he is also one of the “sharks” on the follow-up to Dragons’ Den, Shark Tank South Africa.

In our conversation, Vinny and I discuss:

3:30 – Growing up in South Africa
9:30 – Explaining emerging tech to newbies
16:50 – Vinny’s last big company, Gyft
25:42 – Introduction to Civic business model
33:00 – The Civic monetization strategy
38:30 – Who would be the best client to get?
44:00 – The Civic ICO and what worked, didn’t work

Here are some of the resources mentioned:

Jim Collins Book, Great By Choice – http://amzn.to/2zWqA4a
Civic Website: https://www.civic.com/
Vinny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinnyLingham

Enjoy!


Peace out,


CT


 


 


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