While the number of leaders and founders celebrated has declined in the past cryptocurrency bull market, Forbes has not been shy about honoring cryptocurrency experts with its most recent “30 Under 30” of North American financial leaders.
Almost half of the slots were filled by professionals working in or related to cryptocurrencies.
Chipper Cash co-founder Ham Serunjogi took first place. According to Forbes, the 28-year-old company serves more than 5 million customers in seven countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, the UK and the US, who use it to trade or make payments with cryptocurrencies. Serunjogi and his co-founder Majid Moujaled launched Chipper Cash in 2018 and “raised $300 million, reaching a peak valuation of $2.2 billion in November 2021,” the report also states. It was revealed.
Serunjogi is one of the 14 slots on the prestigious list filled with people who once worked on cryptocurrency or blockchain. Samuel F. Poirier, a “serial entrepreneur” according to his Forbes profile, is currently the CEO of Mercantile, a company that provides customized credit cards to small and medium-sized businesses, and launched a Bitcoin debit card at the age of 17.
Notable additions to the local finance list this year include BlackRock digital asset expert Maxwell Stein, MoonPay co-founder and CTO Victor Faramond, Uniswap Labs founder Hayden Adams, and The Graph Foundation director Eva Beylin.
At the end of 2021, Forbes included 21 “Bitcoin and blockchain leaders” on its 30 Under 30 list, nearly double the previous year’s figure, the magazine said at the time.
Bankman-Fried tops the ‘Hall of Shame’ list.
Forbes is known for celebrating the achievements of young entrepreneurs who later fail spectacularly, but perhaps nowhere is this more famous than the magazine’s tribute to FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, a one-time cryptocurrency prodigy.
This year, Forbes published a “Hall of Shame” list that, in an apparent mistake, topped Bankman-Fried. This comes just a year after the magazine featured Bankman-Fried on its cover and included the young executive on its 2022 ’30 Under 30′ list.
“Many of our graduates under 30 have gone on to become tech titans, CEOs, and even billionaires,” Forbes said. “Some turned out to be stupid or much worse.”
Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried’s former colleague and co-CEO of Alameda Research, also made the “Hall of Shame” list.
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