Kris Marszalek
Bio
- From Cointelegraph (3-2023):
"Since 2004, he has co-founded a series of startups in his homeland Poland and Hong Kong. Starline Polska was an award-winning consumer electronics design studio and manufacturing business with offices in Hong Kong, China and Poland. He grew the company from a staff of three to 400 and $81 million in revenue in three years.
In 2009, he co-founded YiYi Hong Kong Limited, an innovative location-based-service mobile application and platform developed with Munich-based Aloqa, which Motorola acquired in 2010. Then came Beecrazy, a leading e-commerce business in Hong Kong, and iBuy Group Limited. In 2014, he founded Ensogo, which is considered the No. 1 online discount retailer in Southeast Asia. In 2016, Marszalek founded Monaco, intending to make digital money more accessible to everyone.
The company launched a wallet in 2017, enabling users to buy, store and exchange cryptocurrencies. In 2018, Monaco was rebranded Crypto.com, which later signed a multi-year deal with the Staples Center in Los Angeles to rename the venue the Crypto.com Arena in November 2021.
Marszalek’s net worth is estimated at $700 million, with the majority of his wealth derived from his ownership of Crypto.com and stakes in several other companies, including Bitcoin Wallet, which Crypto.com acquired in 2018."
