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Alex Tapscott is an entrepreneur, business author, and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies, on business, government, and society. He is the author of several books on the topic, including Blockchain Revolution and Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier.Alex is also the Managing Director of the Digital Assets Group at Ninepoint Partners, a leading investment firm with more than $8 billion in assets under management (AUM). In this role, he is responsible for investing in and managing digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based businesses, and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.Alex is a frequent speaker and writer on the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. He is also a regular guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.Alex is a passionate advocate for the potential of blockchain and cryptocurrencies to transform the world. He believes that these technologies have the power to democratize finance, improve transparency, and create a more efficient and equitable global economy.Here are some additional details about Alex's background and experience:He graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in economics and business administration.He worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm that helps companies build blockchain businesses.He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Blockchain Technology.He is also a co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes research and education on blockchain technology.Alex is a thought leader in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. He is well-respected for his insights and expertise, and he is a respected voice in the industry. His work has helped to raise awareness of the potential of these technologies and to accelerate their adoption.

When you think about the blockchain, you probably think about a public ledger that lets you move money securely from one place to another. But the reality is that it's about more than that. It's a way to safely share all kinds of information. In this episode, Georgian Partners' Ben Wilde talks with Alex Tapscott, the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, about the implications of the blockchain in financial services and beyond. You'll hear about: -The limitations of the traditional Internet for payments (2:41) -The underlying reasons why the promise of the Internet was unfulfilled (4:28) -Bitcoin and the peer-to-peer economy (7:13) -The broader applications of the blockchain (8:04) -Who's adopting the technology (10:44) -Misconceptions about the blockchain (14: 47) -The rise of private blockchains (17:45) -How banks are using the blockchain to trade with each other (21:24) -How NASDAQ is reinventing its business with the blockchain (24:13) -Opportunities for blockchain beyond financial services (26:16)

My guest this week is Alex Tapscott. Alex is the co-author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction bestseller Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. A Definitive Guide for Business IT Leaders, this book is “on how to survive and thrive in this next wave of technology-driven disruption. Likely to become one of the iconic books of our time.” (Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) Major Take-Aways From This Episode: Reclaim Control of your Privacy and Identity No, Privacy is Not Dead The benefits of ultimate User centric identity Revolutionizing Business, Institutions, and the Economy Learn about Types of Blockchains Why Blockchain is a trust protocol How Blockchain could disrupt the sharing economy' with Uber and Airbnb for example The massive positive social impact About Alex Alex Tapscott is a globally recognized thought-leader, speaker and writer focused on the impact of emerging technologies on business, society and government. Alex is the co-author (with Don Tapscott) of the critically acclaimed #1 Globe and Mail Non-fiction best-seller, BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: HOW THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND BITCOIN IS CHANGING MONEY BUSINESS AND THE WORLD. His writing has been featured in TIME, Fortune, Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and dozens of other publications. Alex is the founder and CEO of Northwest Passage Ventures, a social innovator. Alex currently sits on Advisory Board to Elections Canada, the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums. He is also a founding Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Blockchain. Alex is a graduate of Amherst College (cum laude) and is a CFA Charterholder. He lives in Toronto. Read full transcript here. How to get in touch with Alex Tapscott: Twitter LinkedIn Website: Northwest Passage Ventures  Books: Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money Business and the World Publications: The Internet of Things Needs a Ledger of Things, Forbes Magazine Contributing Articles, Forbes Magazine Other Resources: Google Talk Top 25 Quotes from Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott's Blockchain Revolution This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes. Credits: * Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound Other Ways To Listen to the Podcast iTunes | Libsyn | Soundcloud | RSS | LinkedIn Leave a Review If you enjoyed this episode, then please consider leaving an iTunes review here Click here for instructions on how to leave an iTunes review if you're doing this for the first time. About Bill Murphy Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Alex Tapscott is a globally recognized thought-leader, advocate, speaker and writer focused on the impact of emerging technologies on business, society and government. Alex is the co-author of the critically acclaimed best-seller, Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. He is the author of dozens of articles featured in publications such as TIME, Harvard Business Review, The McKinsey Quarterly, Forbes, Fortune, Quartz, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and The Huffington Post. Alex is the Founder and CEO of Northwest Passage Ventures, a consulting firm focused on early-stage high growth companies. Alex is a passionate and vocal advocate for innovation, entrepreneurship and civic engagement.

Today's guest is Alex Tapscott who runs Northwest Passage Ventures which works to build blockchain companies with capital and other resources. Alex's interest in blockchain stems from a research project he conducted a few years ago at the University of Toronto. Recruited to write a report on bitcoin and what it meant, among other things, for financial services industry, this experience set off a series of deeper research. Many projects later and through collaboration with his co-author, Don Tapscott, Alex recently published Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Alex joins us this week on the podcast to discuss blockchain and its potential impact on the firm, the financial services industry and capital markets in general.

When Don and Alex Tapscott began writing “Blockchain Revolution”, not a single bank was investing in the revolutionary technology. Now virtually every company in the financial services industry is investing heavily as they realize this new technology is the second generation of the internet - the “internet of value”. In this exciting episode of AQ’s Blog & Grill, we are honored to have Don and Alex on to discuss their new book and the implications and opportunities in blockchains. Currently, when sending assets, we rely on intermediaries like banks to ensure trust, verify parties and perform the transaction logic. “These intermediaries do an okay job”, Alex states, “but with some pretty significant limitations.” Alex walks us through the limitations these intermediaries face and how blockchain technology fixes these problems. “Blockchain Revolution” delineates several new business models that can be adopted by any company, and Don and Alex describe one example that found success with a blockchain. They share their thoughts on how blockchains will change the definition of work and the job market, and how companies need to re-architect their businesses as opposed to adjusting their strategies. Don and Alex provide examples of ways entrepreneurs and start-ups can and are using blockchains to disrupt and revolutionize other industries in an “explosion of innovation.” We finish by discussing how we all, entrepreneurs, government , business leaders etc., need to work hard to achieve this future and exploit the blockchain potential. “Technology itself doesn’t create prosperity,” Don states, calling on all to lead this revolution in a positive way. Leave your comments below and subscribe to the AQ’s Blog & Grill mailing list for your chance to win a copy of Don and Alex Tapscott’s “Blockchain Revolution”.   About Our Guests Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation. He has authored and co-authored over 15 best-selling books including “The Digital Economy”, “Wikinomics” and now, “Blockchain Revolution”. Don is a highly awarded intellectual and is listed as the 4th most influential management speaker alive by Thinkers50. He is an adjunct Professor of Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Fellow at the Martin Prosperity Institute. In 2015, Don was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Alex Tapscott is the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm building industry-leading blockchain businesses. Alex became the youngest-ever Vice President for Canaccord Genuity at age 25, founding the firm’s blockchain practice in 2014. Alex is the co-author of “Blockchain Revolution” along with his father, Don Tapscott. He is also on the faculty of the Global Solutions Network Program conducted by the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Understanding blockchain technology is the focus of this episode of the podcast. We start with an introduction to blockchain technology before talking about why it just may represent the internet 2.0, or "the internet of value." We also talk about why blockchain is a technology that companies not just in the financial services space but in a wide variety of industries should be evaluating to see how it will impact their business. Alex Tapscott joins us for this week's episode of the podcast to talk about those topics and more. His just-released book, Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World, looks at blockchain in-depth. It is co-written with best-selling author Don Tapscott and is based on interviews with a wide range of technology pioneers that includes Marc Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee, and Vint Cerf, among others. Alex is the CEO and founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm that builds blockchain companies. In 2014, Alex wrote the seminal report on governing digital currencies for the Global Solutions Network program at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.  Show Notes Visit the Northwest Passage Ventures website Visit the Blockchain Revolution book's website Follow Alex Tapscott on Twitter Follow Don Tapscott on Twitter

Alex Tapscott is the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures. For seven years in the Canadian and U.S. Capital markets, Alex has worked tirelessly to help entrepreneurs realize their goals, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in critical growth capital and providing sound advice and counsel. A passionate advocate for the disruptive potential of new technology, Alex is also the co-author with Don Tapscott of the upcoming book: BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Underlying Technology of Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Alex serves as a research fellow for the Global Solutions Network (GSN) program at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Business in Toronto. In 2014, he published the white paper “A Bitcoin Governance Network.” Alex is also a strong supporter of mental health research and currently sits on the board of CAMH Engage, a young leadership council he co-founded at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. In this episode we talk about: - what is the blockchain - how blockchain can democratize value - the varied potential applications of blockchain (from finance to music and foreign aid) - how blockchain has the potential to disrupt incumbents and industries as a whole - how blockchain improves accountability and transparency - we discuss criticisms of blockchain such as lack of regulation and energy inefficiency - barriers to adoption - rugby and cat videos (yes, cat videos!)   Show Notes: Find out more @ Blockchain-Revolution.com Follow Alex on Twitter @alextapscott Northwest Passage Ventures @ npvinc.com Get the book @ https://amzn.to/2xJDUJ4   --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski  

Welcome to episode #512 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast. The technology behind Bitcoin is something called Blockchain. Many think of it as a complex new way that technology works and connects information and value to consumers. Legendary digital thinker, Don Tapscott, believes it's going to change our world - much in the same way that he predicted (back in 1994) that we would have a digital economy. For his latest book, Blockchain Revolution, he teamed up with his son, Alex Tapscott. Don wrote books like Wikinomics, Grown Up Digital, and many more that have become seminal books of our digital culture, and he is an advisor to some of the largest corporations and governments in the world. Alex is the founder of Northwest Passage Ventures. For seven years Alex worked to help entrepreneurs raise hundreds of millions of dollars in capital. He is a passionate advocate for the disruptive potential of new technology. Blockchain Revolution has already been called, "an iconic book for these times," and brings us back to the excitement and opportunities that many felt, when the first web browser was introduced. Is the blockchain revolution the future of creating value or will it fall into the wrong hands? Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #512 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 52:54. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter. Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! Here's is my conversation with Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution. Northwest Passage Ventures. Follow Don on Twitter. Follow Alex on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Get David's song for free here: Artists For Amnesty. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #512 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising podcast alex tapscott audio bitcoin blockchain blockchain revolution blog blogging brand business blog business book business podcast david usher digital economy digital marketing digital marketing agency digital marketing blog don tapscott facebook google grown up digital itunes j walter thompson jwt leadership podcast management podcast marketing marketing blog marketing podcast mirum mirum agency mirum agency blog mirum blog northwest passage ventures twitter wikinomics wpp