Brock Pierce

Basics

• Former child actor
• Attender of Satoshi Roundtable
• Used to run a World of Warcraft gold farm with Steve Bannon, some speculated that the farmers were Chinese prisoners, where Brock said something along the lines of: "At least they weren't idle."

Occupations

• Founded 8 cryptocurrency startups and often referred to as the father of digital currency

• Bitcoin Foundation, board of directors
• Blockchain Capital, Founder. A venture capital firm that is amongst the most active venture capital firms in Fintech.

• Clinton Global Initiative, member (Initiative convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges)
• GoCoin, Co-founder and Board Observer
• BlockStreet, Co-founder
• Coin Congress, Co-founder
• Crypto Currency Partners, Co-founder
• Decentral, mentor
• Tether; co-founder
• KnCMiner.cn, Co-founder (KNC Miner went out of business, they claim due to stiff competition “Even if they have free electricity we can’t understand how they can make a profit”, the they is assumed to be Bitmain)
• Robocoin Asia, Co-founder
• ZenBox, Co-founder
• Blade Financial
• Expresscoin, Co-founder
• Noble Markets, Noble is a vertically-integrated prime brokerage platform for OTC markets
• BitGo, a Blockchain security company
• ChangeTip, micropayment platform (shutdown in november 2016, most of the staff continued working on airbnb)
• Founded the IMI, Exchange, sold for $100M
• Block.One, co-founder now former partner (8-2018). Stepped down as chief strategy officer at Block.one after his past legal issues came up in the media. But came back as board member on the EOS Alliance.
• EOS, partner

Investments

• Pierce has invested in over 30 companies in the blockchain ecosystem, helped raise over $200MM for companies he is involved with, is a mentor for startup accelerators, and runs a top AngelList syndicate.
• Was one of the biggest investors in the Ethereum ICO
• BitAngels; Investor Lead
• Said he bought 10% of all Maidsafe tokens at the ICO