Building The Chase Bank of Crypto with Flori Marquez of BlockFi

Flori Marquez is the cofounder of BlockFi, a fintech firm that provides wealth management products to investors in cryptocurrency. BlockFi currently offers interest-bearing crypto accounts, crypto trading, and crypto-backed loans.

In the last year, Blockfi has raised an $18.3 million Series A and a $30 million Series B from investors like Morgan Creek Digital, Fidelity, the Winklevoss twins, and Valar Ventures.

Flori has spent her career managing alternative lending products, including a $125MM portfolio for Bond Street (acquired by Goldman Sachs). In this conversation, Flori and Aaron discuss the founding of the company, the new customers BlockFi is targeting, and why banking people across the world is challenging.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:04 What are BlockFi Products
3:04 Higher Interest Rates with BlockFi
5:00 Building a Crypto Company
9:34 Managing a Fast-Growing Company
12:45 Explaining BlockFi to Those Unfamiliar
15:17 Crypto Investors/ Investments
19:30 Obstacles in Expanding Overseas
23:45 Why Bootstrap?
26:40 Bitcoin as an Asset
29:05 Closing Remarks
32:55 Flori Marquez sign off

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