AI 2030 Show

In this episode, Xiaochen Zhang, Founder and CEO of FinTech4Good interviews with Alexey Shadrin, Co-founder of DAO IPCI - blockchain infrastructure for climate finance markets, Founder and CEO of Russian Carbon Fund. About Alexey Alexey Shadrin is the Founder and CEO of the Russian Carbon Fund and has co-developed the Blockchain Ecosystem platform for environmental assets trading at IPCI. Since 2011 Russian Carbon Fund have helped major international businesses implement sustainability solutions and reduce environmental risks. Alexey is an active participant of the carbon market. Together with Anton Galenovich and Sergey Sitnikov he founded the Russian Carbon Registry, a platform facilitating emission and trading with voluntary carbon credits. He holds a Master’s degree in strategic management from the Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping; and a bachelor’s degree in international economics from the International Institute of Energy Policy & Diplomacy of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. About DAO IPCI DAO IPCI stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization “Integral Program for Climate Initiatives”. DAO IPCI provides digital blockchain infrastructure for the global green finance markets eliminating their main growth problems such as lack of transparency, trust and unification. From the technical point of view, DAO IPCI is an Ethereum-based public blockchain protocol - a set of digital smart-contracts and modules specially designed to match the needs of the various green finance markets, their players and instruments. DAO IPCI ecosystem offers unique features, including easy access to green investment and various assets for people and business via decentralized application (DApp), investment raising into green projects without regulatory borders, tracking and offsetting of environmental and carbon footprints, monitoring of green investment projects outcomes and supply chains, instant launch and management of decentralized environmental programs, and blockchainization of corporate, regional, national and international environmental programs. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexeyshadrin/ DAO IPCI Website: http://ipci.io

Host: Xiaochen Zhang, Founder and CEO of FinTech4Good Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmyidea/ Website: www.fintech4good.co, Email: info@fintech4good.co About Brad Bulent Yasar Co-Founder & Managing Partner, KrowdMentor Brad is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and advisor who has started and bootstrapped several companies from inception to maturity over the past 20 years. Brad is currently the co-founder and Managing Partner of Krowd Mentor, a strategic crowdfunding advisory firm focusing on ICOs, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and token powered organizations. As the co-founder for Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC) with over $2 Billion dollars allocated to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and has access to extensive dealflow and experience analyzing disruptive technologies, Brad has participated in dozens successful crowd sales, which have raised over $500 million from 10,000s of investors in 12 months. About KrowdMentor KrowdMentor is a strategic investment and advisory firm empowering blockchain investors, funds, startups and entrepreneurs to reach their liquidity goals. It helps founders design, launch and scale their blockchain ventures and it helps investors find the right Initial Coin Offering (ICO) investments for their portfolios. Interview Questions Q1: Share two of your organizations? Q2: From the mentor side, what’s the bigger pool that you selected the 50 organizations that you working with? Q3: According to some studies and use data that 90% of ICOs are scams. What’s your assessment of the quality of ICOs? Q4: As an angel investor/ICO investor, are there any difference between a traditional VC/angel investor and an ICO investor? Q5: In traditional investment, if you are a startup without a product, it’s impossible for you to get a huge amount of investment. But in ICO, we have seen quite a lot cases that before product launch they already have 20M/30M value. From traditional investors, no one will do an evaluation in that manner. For you as an investor, is it a good thing or bad thing? Q6: You have seen a lot of ICOs and blockchain companies. If people ask you which top ICOs or top blockchain companies have the potential to be the next unicorns. Do you have a small list or a few examples to share? Q7: So you just mentioned some criteria for you to make your investment decision. Are you still looking at the team, potential business impact? Are you using the same philosophy or different strategies in choosing different deals? Q8: Now when we see a lot of ICOs are divided into two phases: pre-ICO/pre-sale, and then ICO. Investors who participate in the pre-sale get much better terms and lots of discounts (some discounts even go to 90%). For the later crowd participates who would not get those discounts, some people would think the decision to have these discounts is not a good term for later participants. What’s your opinion? Q9: What’s your view about SAFT? Q10: Why did you put all the investors in your second organization? Why did investors want to come together?

Host: Xiaochen Zhang, Founder and CEO of FinTech4Good Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/cmyidea/ Website: www.fintech4good.co, Email: info@fintech4good.co About Alex Mashinsky Founder, Celsius Foundation Alex is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. Alex founded two of New York City's top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000: Arbinet, with a 2004 IPO that had a market capitalization of over $750 million; and Transit Wireless, currently valued at $1.2 billion. He has also been a featured speaker at more than 120 conferences and in TV interviews, and he is the author of over 32 patents relating to exchanges, VoIP, messaging and communication. Alex has received numerous awards for innovation, including being nominated twice by E&Y as entrepreneur of the year, in 2002 & 2011; Crain's 2010 Top Entrepreneur; the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal; and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99). Alex is considered to be one of the pioneers of VoIP, with foundational patents dating back to 1994. Many of today's hardware and software designs originated from these early ideas. As the leader of web-based exchanges, Alex authored patents that cover aspects of the Smart Grid, ad exchanges, Groupon, Twitter, Skype, App Store, Netflix streaming concept and many other top-performing web companies. Additionally, Arbinet’s fundraising story was featured as a case study in 2001 by Harvard Business School. Q1: Why would you choose blockchain as your next big thing? Q2: When you go back for this long thinking process, is there any event, person or company who contribute in shifting your thinking? Q3: Compare to the traditional ones that you use network concept to provide member with better service. How to become a member? Compare with other financial service providers, do you do KYC differently, and do you acquire client or member in a different way, but still can fulfill all the potential financial regulations? Q4: Traditionally, in the financial sector, we always see the tension between borrower and lender. When we bring these two concepts we see the risk is everything we are talk about. From this smart contract-based network you are providing the same service in a different way. How does this really transform the relationship between borrower and lender? Q5: Take this from both the borrower and lender side, by participating in the network that how much costs can the network help them to save, comparing with the same kind of service they provide or receive? Q6: Ideally everyone can see it, but do you have any incentive mechanism that they really see it? Q7: For the new system you are building, who are your clients? Q8: Where do you stand now, and where do you want to be in 5 years? To go there, who you want to work with?