038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper

Apr 18, 2019

Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He has held various private equity and management positions at Deutsche Bank and Allianz Group.

 

Philipp is a serial tech entrepreneur and discovered Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.

 

In this episode, we discuss:

 

• The history of ICOs
• Whether it makes sense to tokenize traditional securities
• The 3 components of the Swarm system – tokenization, compliance, and decentralization
• How Swarm, as an open-source non-profit entity, differentiates itself from other players in the STO market