Wences Casares

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Wences Casares (2012)

Wenceslao Casares , also known as "Wences Casares" (born February 26, 1974 ) is an Argentine technology entrepreneur and philanthropist with global business experience specializing in technology and finance companies. He is the chief executive officer of the Bitcoin wallet provider Xapo and the founder of Internet Argentina, Wanako Games, Patagon, Lemon Wallet and Banco Lemon. Casares sits on the boards of PayPal and Coin Center and is a board member of Kiva and Viva Trust.

Bitcoin - which he advocates - is going to be bigger than the internet in his opinion. A frequent speaker at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, Casares has predicted a price tag of $ 1 million for Bitcoin.

Early years

Casares is the oldest of four children from a family of sheep farmers in Patagonia , Argentina . In high school, Casares received a Rotary Club scholarship as an exchange student in Washington, Pennsylvania . In an interview with USA Today , Casares recalls that the scholarship “changed my life” for him and says to Americans: “They have the attitude that anything is possible.” When he returned to Buenos Aires , he studied business administration for three years from the University of San Andrés, then dropped out and started Argentina's first Internet service provider, Internet Argentina SA, in 1994

He left the company and then founded the Argentine online brokerage Patagon in 1997. Patagon established itself as the leading, comprehensive Internet portal for financial services in Latin America and expanded its online banking services to the United States, Spain and Germany . After being taken over by the Spanish bank Banco Santander for USD 750 million, Patagon became Santander Online worldwide. Investors in Patagon included George Soros , Intel, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase and entrepreneur Fred Wilson, TechCrunch journalist Sarah Lacy shared that "Casares is one of the best entrepreneurs he's ever supported," Casares later did Completed Owner / President Management Program at Harvard University .

Career

In 2002, Casares founded Wanako Games, (later Behavior Santiago), a video game developer headquartered in New York City. Wanako Games was best known for the blockbuster game Assault Heroes and was acquired by Activision in 2007 .

In addition, in 2002 Casares and his partners founded Banco Lemon, a private customer bank for “underbanked individuals” in Brazil . Banco do Brasil , the largest bank in Brazil, acquired Banco Lemon in June 2009. Casares was the founder and chief executive of Lemon Wallet, a digital wallet platform. In 2013, Lemon was acquired by the American company LifeLock for around USD 43 million.

Casares is the chief executive officer of Xapo, a bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California . Xapo is considered to be the largest Bitcoin custodian bank in the world and is said to hold a full 10 billion USD of the cryptocurrency in underground vaults on five continents, such as a. in a former military bunker in Switzerland. Xapo has raised $ 40 million from leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Quartz reported that entrepreneur Casares convinced Bill Gates , Reid Hoffman and other tech veterans in Silicon Valley to invest in Bitcoin.

philanthropy

In 2011 Casares was on the jury of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. He is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellow on the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute . He is an elected member of the 2011 class of Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum and regularly attends the annual World Economic Forum meetings in Davos , Switzerland. He is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. In 2010, in partnership with Pablo Bosch, Casares founded Las Majadas de Pirque, a social capital and innovation institution - owned by Casares - in Santiago, Chile.

Private life

Casares lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and three children. From 2004 to 2007, Casares and his family sailed around the globe on board their sailing catamaran “Simpatica”.

Web links

Commons : Wences Casares  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Wealthy Are Hoarding $ 10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers (en) . In: Bloomberg.com . 
  2. ↑ a b The Difference between $ 1 Billion-Plus in Exits and 'Success' . Techcrunch. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Wences Casares . Cartier Women's Initiative. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b The simple formula for becoming a bitcoin millionaire, according to one of its innovators . Quartz . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ PayPal's Wences Casares: 'I Can Imagine A World In Which Bitcoin Becomes A Global Standard Of Value' . Forbes. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  6. ↑ Amy Willis: Wences Casares on Bitcoin and Xapo . July 20, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Crypto Bulls, Bloomberg Kick Off Sun Valley . The information. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  8. ^ Wences Casares: Reluctant serial entrepreneur . USA Today. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ To Argentine Serial Entrepreneur's $ 750 million "Mistake" . In: Inc.com , December 14, 2011. 
  10. ↑ Chilean startup focuses on games for social good (en-US) . In: VentureBeat , November 18, 2009. 
  11. ↑ Vivendi Acquires Wanako Games . Gamasutra. February 20, 2007. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ Behavior closes Santiago studio (en) . In: GamesIndustry.biz . 
  13. ^ Banco do Brasil Acquires Banco Lemon Correspondent Branch Network . Business Wire. July 16, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ Lemon sold to LifeLock for $ 42.6 million . Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  15. ↑ The legal battle between LifeLock and Xapo just got more intense (en) . In: Fortune . 
  16. ↑ Xapo's Wences Casares Takes Legal Action Against LifeLock (en-US) . In: CoinDesk , July 27, 2015. 
  17. ↑ Kara Swisher: Lemon Digital Wallet Founder Wenceslao Casares Gets $ 20 Million in Funding for Bitcoin Startup Xapo . In: Re / Code , March 13, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014. 
  18. ↑ How Bitcoin may have more impact than the internet . Business Insider. February 11, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  19. ^ Sean O'Kane: Meet the man building the Fort Knox of bitcoin . The Verge. August 29, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  20. ↑ Young Global Leaders | World Economic Forum . Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  21. ^ Matt Clinch: Bitcoin finds a place among the world's elite . January 22, 2015. Accessed December 28, 2016.
  22. ↑ Las Majadas de Pirque: el capital social como modelo de negocios . Bloomberg. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  23. ↑ PAUTA Bloomberg capital social . Bloomberg. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  24. ^ Simpatica Log Book . February 26, 2007. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Casares, Wences
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casares, Wenceslao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine technology entrepreneur and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1974