Benjamin Jones recounts his experiences as the CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala [ Ссылка ] as the company maneuvered through partners bailing and the ground shifting beneath them. Bitwala has managed to survive being forced offline which, while painful, provided an opportunity to focus its efforts on tackling the challenge of becoming the "first cryptocurrency bank in the world" with over 100,000 users across Europe. 🏦

This is the first episode of the FixOps series. 🎬 We've learned so much from this experience and already lined up interviews with more interesting folks to share stories of that which is happening behind the scenes at your favorite startups. 🦓🐴🦄

Read Ben's written account of the Bitwala story: [ Ссылка ]

Also check out Bitwala's blog to stay in the loop: [ Ссылка ]

💡 To all the great hackers out there: 📣 Bitwala is hiring! [ Ссылка ]

Meanwhile, David is taking improv classes 🎭 to work on his on-camera conversation skills (and nerves 🥵). Please feel free to reach out to fixops at asabina dot de with tips about innovative folks that we absolutely must chat with in upcoming episodes.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro 👋🏿
0:23 Berlin 🐻🇩🇪
0:57 Meet Ben and Bitwala 📛
1:41 Beginnings 🌱
2:31 Crisis 💩
4:11 Opportunity -- taking a step back and planning ahead
6:36 Execution 🚧 -- Orchestrating a pivot while offline and on a clock
9:14 Talent & Hiring 👩‍💻 -- Attracting great talent
11:25 Shipping & Constraints 🚢 -- Managing scope, idealism and urgency
12:49 Outro
13:21 Credits

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