The Kin Show with Tony Jacob

Blair is the founder of Eviota, the online language tutoring platform that uses Kin. He is also a Senior Software Engineer for a medical devices startup. Blair is an early bitcoiner who discovered Kin through trading.

In this conversation, Blair talks about his background as a software developer, his inspiration behind creating Eviota and the need he saw for a face to face language learning platform. We talk about how Evio...

Daniel Charpentier is the founder of Kreechures, creator and lead developer of Venatrix. Prior to entering the world of web3 full-time, Daniel was a Technical Program Manager, with a focus on software development & IT infrastructure for over a decade. Further back Daniel served in the US Army. He is based out of Cary, North Carolina, with his wife and children.

In this conversation, Daniel and I talk about the evolutio...

Tanner Philp is the Head of Operations and Corporate Development at Code. Code is a not-for-profit organization building a new crypto wallet with Kin. Tanner has been involved with Kin since its inception. Prior to Code, Tanner was at Kik Inc., who helped launch Kin, and helped drive the evolution of the technology stack that Kin runs on today, going from Ethereum, to Stellar, to the Kin Blockchain, to Solana.

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Lewis Knell is the co-founder and CPO & COO of Swelly, the social voting platform where you can earn Kin for your opinions. He has a degree in computer science and has worked in a variety of design and product roles for both startups and large multinational companies.

In this conversation, we talk about Lewis’ background, his start in the app polling business and  his introduction to crypto. We then spend the majority of the con...

David and John are the co-founders of Giftery, which enables users to spend Kin on virtual gift cards from over 250+ major retailers. It’s also an ecommerce solution that enables developers to integrate Giftery into their own projects, leverage its inventory, and create their own customizable gift card experiences for their own users. Prior to Giftery, John received his JD from the University of Pacific and his MBA from the Univers...

John and David are partners and co-founders of Uproll -  a financial tool that allows users to passively invest in Kin with spare change and recurring buys. Prior to Uproll, John received his JD from the University of Pacific and his MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business; and has held various strategic positions in startups that range from healthcare to web3. David has been an investor and advocate of Kin sin...

Matthew Hannam is the executive director of the Kin Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to supporting the network of apps that integrate the Kin cryptocurrency. He has been with the Kin project since its initial launch, starting off as a community member, and now leading the day-to-day management of the Foundation with the support of its growing team. Matt has a background in law and finance.

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William Mougayar is an early blockchain thought leader, entrepreneur, best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016, translated in 10 languages), and investor in several blockchain projects and companies. He was a special Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation in 2014 and is currently a Board Member at Swiss-based Blockchain Valley Ventures. William is the producer of The Token Summit, and manages WMX, an Iconomi cryptocu...

Geoff Whittington is the founder and CEO of Perk.Exchange, a rewards platform for consumer and commercial software based on the Solana and Kin ecosystems. He has worked on various Kin projects in the past including Kinetik, a social fitness application, and KinBuyButton - a ReactJS component for using Kin in web projects. Geoff can be reached on Twitter @PerkExchange

In this discussion we talk about Geoff’s background and ...

Andrew Mocol is the Chief Technology Officer of Kinny Technologies and is also a Lead Software Engineer for a cyber security startup. He is an early bitcoiner and a Kin TDE participant, and has been following along since Ted's first announcement at Token Summit in 2017. He has spent most of his career working with the US Marine Corps both as an Active Duty Marine and later as a contractor writing software.

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Wim is a Kin OG and freelance software engineer who’s written several articles on Kin over the years. He got involved with Kin in late 2017 and has been following the project closely ever since. He’s active on some of the Kin Telegram channels and mainly lurks on the Kin Foundation’s sub reddit.

In this conversation we talk about Kin’s money supply, the psychology behind the total supply of 10T coins, how Kin’s use case di...

Daniel Charpentier is the founder of Kreechures and is also a Cloud Program Manager. Prior to his current position, Daniel was a Technical Project Manager with a focus on software development and, further back, served in the US Army. He is based out of Cary, North Carolina.

In this conversation we talk about Danilel’s introduction to crypto and Kin, his interest in NFTs and why he created Kreechures, the composability of K...

Peter was the CEO and Co-founder of Swelly which was a social polling app that had over 10 million users at its peak. He is presently a Partner at Gateway Labs - a product studio and is also the Co-Founder of a new Health Tech startup.

In this conversation we talk about Peter’s background, the beginnings of Swelly, why it made sense to integrate Kin into Swelly as a way to monetize, the decision to join the Kin Ecosystem e...

Alex Kruglov is the CEO and Co-founder of the pop.in app. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Prior to starting pop.in, he was Head of Content Acquisition at Hulu and spent time at other Entertainment businesses including Sony Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures.

In this conversation we talk about how the pop.in app was born, why Alex and his team joined early on as one of the founding apps in the Kin Ecosy...

Philippe is an IT analyst, Kin OG, creator of the Kin KRE reports and the Kin chronicles. In this conversation we discuss Philippe’s background, how he discovered Kin, the Kin Rewards Engine, his views on the future of the Kin Ecosystem and the speculative Vs demand based nature of the crypto markets. This episode was recorded with a live audience in the Kin Channel on Telegram.

This is the very first episode of The Kin Show and was hosted by Tim Howard and was recorded live in the Kin Channel on Telegram. In this show, Tim guest hosts a panel of Kin OGs who have been on the Kin journey from the very beginning. The panelists include Gamba, Richie, Andrew, Rachel and myself, where we try to answer a few questions about our Kin journey  thus far.