Mar 17 2024
Blockchain VC and the Founder of Kenetic on why crypto is all about culture
Welcome to the launch episode of the Newconomics podcast.
For this first episode, our host Hervé Larren spoke with Jehan Chu, founder of Kenetic, a blockchain Venture Capital and cryptocurrency trading firm.
In this conversation, Chu made some fascinating points about the success of the top coins and crypto culture. They also discussed geopolitics, thriving new web3 markets, Middle Eastern founders and why not all blockchain technology needs to be tokenised.
Jehan Chu has been a Blockchain evangelist since 2013. A former front-end developer, he started investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 230 projects. Jehan founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-Founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong (2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016). Jehan is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program, Director’s Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is Co-founder and Board Member of Social Alpha Foundation, a blockchain/social impact non-profit. Jehan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and MA from Hong Kong University / Central St. Martin’s.
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