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."

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

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