#407: Alexander Leishman On Building A Bitcoin Company

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Alexander Leishman is a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of River Financial. Prior to that, he was the Engineer and Investor at Polychain Capital and the Security Software Engineer at Airbnb. In this conversation, we discuss what River Financial does, why they only focus on Bitcoin, how it is going so far, why so many boomers are using their service to buy Bitcoin, what self-custody products they offer, and how he sees the current economic situation. ============================== Want to sell your wonderful internet business? Tiny partners with founders to give them quick, straightforward exits that protect their team and culture. We’ll make an offer within a week, close the deal within a month, and keep your business operating for the long term. Get in touch at tinycapital.com and we’ll let you know within a couple of days. ============================== Masterworks.io is an exclusive platform that makes it as easy as trading stocks online. And the best part is: you don’t need to know anything about art. Their experts will create a custom portfolio to meet your investment needs. With Masterworks.io you don’t have to choose between big risks and big returns. Sign up today, select PODCAST and you can skip the 70,000 waitlist to get first dibs. Just go to www.masterworks.io and use code "POMP" ============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:05.3	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Alexander Leichmann is the CEO and co-founder
0:13.7	of River Financial. Prior to that, he was the engineer and an investor at Polly Chain Capital
0:19.9	and the security software engineer
0:21.9	at Airbnb.
0:23.9	In this conversation, we discuss what River Financial does, why they only focus on Bitcoin,
0:29.4	how it is going so far, why so many boomers are using their servers to buy Bitcoin, what
0:34.4	self-custody products they offer, and how he sees the current economic situation.
0:39.3	I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.
0:43.3	Before we get into this episode, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:47.3	First up is a new one, Tiny.
0:50.1	Do you ever want to sell your wonderful internet business?
0:53.7	Well, Tiny partners with founders to give them quick, straightforward exits that protect their team and their culture.
1:00.5	They'll make an offer within one week.
1:02.6	That's right, just one week they'll make an offer.
1:04.5	They'll close the deal within a month.
1:06.0	And they'll keep your business operating for the long term.
1:09.2	Andrew from Tiny has been on the podcast. He's incredibly
1:13.0	thoughtful. Everyone loved the episode. And now they're sponsoring this because they want to find
1:17.7	people who want to sell their businesses. Tiny's doing it right. I couldn't recommend them
1:22.7	enough. So go get in touch with them at tinycapital.com.
1:27.7	Again, tiny capital.com.
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