Evan Kou is the Founder and CEO of Ampleforth, an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency with an algorithmically adjusted circulating supply. With Ampleforth, token holders own a fixed fraction of the total AMPL circulating supply, rather than a fixed number of tokens. Ampleforth seeks to completely rebuild the way money is designed both inside and outside of cryptocurrency. In addition, he is the CEO of Ampleforth Foundation, the development and management firm behind the Ampleforth protocol. Evan is a skilled product manager and serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in developing predictive auction products and working with venture capital. Prior to launching Ampleforth, he was Founder and CEO of Easy As Pi, a startup that reimagines delivery-pizza by combining elegant software design with deliciously crafted pies, and a mischievous love for sharing art.
EARLY CAREER AND EXPERTISE He was the Founder of Crowdrally, the platform responsible for the early innovator in Facebook newsfeed advertisement. He was Vice President Product at Sharethrough, one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges. At Sharethrough, he developed Core Ad-server, Creative Templates, Data Warehouse and Reporting Interface. He was Product Manager for Yahoo where he was responsible for nonlinear optimization, data warehousing and ad-serving. He started his career at Managed TAO (Targeting, Analytics, and Optimization) as the Product Manager Display Network. He is skilled at iOS, database and systems engineering, fundraising, branding, marketing, interaction design, and thermodynamics research. MEDIA Evan has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.