Ginns: Invested in the Ethereum ICO in 2014
Seth Ginns · Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182) · Mar 15, 2021 · at 14:07
Seth Ginns, Managing Partner at CoinFund, explains how making early crypto bets catalyzed his deep engagement with the ecosystem.
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“And I started to see a lot of really interesting buzz around Ethereum. This was just at the ICO period in 2014, but I said, I want to put a little bit of a bet here. I think this is quite interesting. A lot of people who understand way more about what's happening here than I do think this is quite intriguing. So I invested a little bit in the ICO”
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