Kris Marszalek

Co-Founder & CEO, Crypto.com · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kris Marszalek is a Polish entrepreneur who co-founded and leads the global cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com. He previously founded e-commerce company BEECRAZY, served as CEO of Ensogo, and acquired the domain AI.com to build a consumer AI agent platform.

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Marszalek claims he received a $500M offer after acquiring AI.com

“And by the way right after we closed the deal, I got the approach for the, from the other side offering five, five hundred million plus, not for five hundred million for the domain.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 14:43 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2031

Four billion people will have AI personal assistants, Marszalek predicts

“We believe that you will have four billion people having personal assistants that should play the role of kind of a chief of staff for your entire life with great contacts being proactive, getting things done for you rather than just chatting.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 2:30 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Disclosure

Crypto.com acquired its domain name for $12 million

“I don't think we ever did, but we paid twelve million dollars.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 1:19 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Disclosure

AI.com begins consumer product rollout after eight months of development

“So I think we've we're combining everything that we've built over the last say eight months into something that we can roll out to the end users and we're starting doing this tomorrow.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 4:02 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Disclosure

Marszalek bought AI.com's Super Bowl ad spot before building the product

“So I bought the domain in April the deal closed, and we got the domain successfully, so I'm like, okay, we need to launch this, and it deserves a global stage, and in May, we were one of the first companies to actually buy the spot.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 4:46 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Assertion Not checkable as stated

AI.com gained roughly 300,000 signups from its Super Bowl commercial

“We had about 300,000 people signing up.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 7:21 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Insight

AI users care about task completion and privacy, not underlying models

“Our users don't really care about which model runs in the background as long as the job gets done and their data is safe.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 15:52 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Disclosure

Crypto.com's $12 million domain cost one-third of the company's capital

“Twelve million dollars was about a third of our capital.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 1:30 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Disclosure

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has never visited the Crypto.com Arena

“I have never been to the arena.”

Kris Marszalek Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 16:53 Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com	Feb 11, 2026	7m

Kris Marszalek

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