1. Wences Casares is the founder of Xapo Bank, and founded Internet Argentina, Wanako Games, Patagon, Bling Nation, Lemon Wallet, and Banco Lemon.
10 Facts About Wences Casares
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In high school, Wences Casares earned a Rotary Club scholarship as an exchange student in Washington, Pennsylvania.
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Wences Casares exited the company and then founded Argentine online brokerage, Patagon, in 1997.
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In 2002, Wences Casares founded Banco Lemon, a bank based in Brazil, which was acquired by Banco do Brasil in 2009.
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Wences Casares was the founder and CEO of Lemon Wallet, a digital wallet platform.
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Wences Casares is the founder of Xapo Bank, a private bank for Bitcoin whales worldwide based in the UK.
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Widely known as "Patient Zero", Quartz reported that Wences Casares was the entrepreneur to convince Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Chamath Palihapitiya, Bill Miller, Mike Novogratz, Pete Briger and other tech veterans in Silicon Valley and Wall Street to invest in bitcoin.
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In 2010 Wences Casares partnered with Pablo Bosch to found Las Majadas de Pirque, a social capital and innovation facility owned by Wences Casares in Santiago, Chile.
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Wences Casares is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows in the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute and he is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization.
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Wences Casares was formerly a board member at Kiva and Endeavor.