
#CELSIUS ALEX MASHINSKY SERIAL#
Alex Mashinsky, the serial US entrepreneur well known for installing broadband on the US subway, once famously declared Bitcoin the slowest database on the planet. Tweet on Twitter Share on Facebook Google+ Pinterest. Additionally, Arbinet’s fundraising story was featured as a case study in 2001 by Harvard Business School. Alex Mashinsky, the CEO of the Celsius Network, has said that in terms of market dominance, Ethereum (ETH) has already started winning against the largest cryptocurrency (by market capitalization. Celsius’s Alex Mashinsky on Feeding the Plankton Editor Febru0 comment. Alex founded two of New York City’s top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000: Arbinet, with a 2004 IPO that had a market capitalization of over $750 million and Transit Wireless, valued at $1.2 billion.Īlex has received numerous awards for innovation, including being nominated twice by E&Y as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’, in 2002 & 2011 Crain’s 2010 Top Entrepreneur the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99).Īs one of the pioneers of web-based exchanges, Alex authored patents that cover aspects of the Smart Grid, ad exchanges, Twitter, Skype, App Store, Netflix streaming concept and many other popular web companies.


Over 35 patents have been issued to Alex, relating to exchanges, VOIP protocols, messaging and communication.Īlex is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. Alex is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) with a foundational patent dating back to 1994 and is now working on MOIP (Money Over Internet Protocol) technology.
