Bitcoin and Crypto, NFT.com, Defining Success, Perseverance with Jordan Fried

Jordan Fried is a blockchain evangelist and crypto-capitalist. He’s currently the Chairman and CEO of Immutable Holdings, “The Blockchain Holding Company.” Immutable Holdings is a collection of industry-leading businesses within the digital assets ecosystem. Our mission is to demystify and democratize digital assets by building products and services that increase awareness and adoption of digital assets for both retail and institutional users. We’re capitalizing on market opportunities made possible by the ongoing innovation and evolution of the digital asset ecosystem with our portfolio of businesses including: NFT.com, Immutable Asset Management, 1-800-Bitcoin, HBAR Labs, CBDC.com, and Immutable Advisory. Previously Jordan was part of the founding team behind Hedera Hashgraph (Hedera.com). He served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Hedera from inception in 2017 until the end of 2020, signing partnerships with Google, IBM, Boeing, and LG Electronics while also launching $HBAR into one of the top 100 cryptocurrencies in the world. Jordan also co-founded and served as CEO of Buffered VPN, one of the most trusted personal VPN services online until it was acquired in the first quarter of 2017. In 2012 Jordan discovered Bitcoin and never turned back. Today he is an angel investor in companies like Buffer.com, Clearview.ai, Hive.org, and other early-stage startups. He has been featured in Wired Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Time.com, and Success.com. He frequently speaks at events around the world about entrepreneurship, blockchain, NFTs, decentralization, and the future of money. We discuss a variety of topics including Bitcoin and Crypto, NFT.com, Defining Success, Perseverance, and much more. We begin our conversation by discussing being comfortable with uncomfortability. Jordan shares his Bitcoin origin story and we discuss how everything happens for a reason. We discuss some of the similarities of our backstories. Our next conversation focused on success. Jordan shares his adv