Bill Barhydt
Bill Barhydt is the Founder and CEO of Abra, a global cryptocurrency wallet and exchange network. Barhydt is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer in internet and media technologies, and an avid investor in companies across the broader technology ecosystem. For the past 15 years, he has worked as an executive and investor in the mobile industry including industry changing banking, gaming and IoT investments across the telecommunications and information technology sectors. He has also consulted to federal and international regulators on the impact of digital currencies and decentralized transaction systems.
Bill Barhydt Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Senior Analyst, Fixed Income Trading
Academic History
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BS in Computer Science
Abra is a premier institutional and crypto wealth management firm that offers trading, custody, high yield interest accounts, borrowing and lending.
Forbes describes Abra as "the Robinhood of Crypto!" and named as one of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups in 2021.
Abra was also named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 25 Tech Companies to Watch in 2020.
EARLY CAREER
Bill started his career working for the U.S. Government, first at the CIA in the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research and later at NASA.
He spent several years bringing next-generation computer graphics and visualization techniques into use at NASA and the CIA.
As one of the early team members of Netscape, he was involved in building some of the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all use today.
He was also the Founder, CEO, and President of Boom Financial, a mobile banking service for underserved communities in the U.S. and Latin America.
He also served as an Advisor at Boost VC, where he provided mentoring and guidance to angel stage companies.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Barhydt has been featured or quoted in Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Forbes.
He has also been featured in CoinDesk, Blockworks, and Cointelegraph.
He has presented at over 100 conferences including The World Economic Forum, The US State Department, and The Mobile World Congress.
He has been a speaker at TED, where he gave the first ever TED Talk on Bitcoin in 2012.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.