Bill Barhydt

Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, the digital asset investment and wealth management company he started in Silicon Valley in 2014 and later steered toward institutional services including an SEC-registered investment advisory arm. A serial entrepreneur with an unusually varied resume, he began his career as a research engineer at the CIA and NASA, spent several years at Goldman Sachs in fixed income, and was an early team member at Netscape working on telecom and internet banking infrastructure. He gave what is billed as the first-ever TED talk on Bitcoin in 2012, when the price was around $5, and in 2015 built an early synthetic dollar on Bitcoin. Before Abra he founded Boom Financial, a mobile banking venture for the unbanked, and he received a Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum in 2000.

13 talks by Bill Barhydt