Mike Lempress

Chief Risk and Trust Officer, Inveniam · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Lempres previously served as Chief Legal and Risk Officer and Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase, subsequently advising portfolio companies at Andreessen Horowitz. A former Mayor of Atherton, California, he currently serves as Chief Risk and Trust Officer at Inveniam and sits on the boards of multiple financial and crypto companies.

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Opinion

Coinbase Legal Chief: Crypto requires regulatory oversight to build consumer trust

“Certainly in Coinbase, we believe there has to be, the space has to be regulated. There has to be trust in the space, and in order for people to have consumers and others to have trust in the space, there has to be a layer of regulation so people know the rule…”

Mike Lempress Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:17 a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress

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Lempress: Blockchain will transform the world by 2022

“I think it won't be 10 years. I think in five years we'll look back and be surprised at how much the world changed. Much You know, similar to something like the iPhone or the internet itself, how quickly things changed in response to that.”

Mike Lempress Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:31 a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress

Insight

Lempress: State jurisdictions provide safer regulatory laboratories than federal mandates

“I mean, one of the nice things in an emerging technology space, Is if you have 50, actually I think there's 55 different state jurisdictions because of territories and things like that, looking at it, if somebody makes a misstep, we can correct, or people can,…”

Mike Lempress Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:48 a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Blockchain, in Congress	Jan 2, 2019	3m

Mike Lempress

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