E02 - Paul Quickenden on Navigating Crypto Markets & Growing a Business

Paul Quickenden is the current Head of New Zealand for EasyCrypto. He's been active in the blockchain and Crypto sector for a number of years, consulting to numerous projects and helping them with successful capital raises and commercial launches.  Prior to that Paul was the CEO of Putti Apps, and held numerous roles in Product Marketing and Strategy within Spark New Zealand.  Paul is passionate about growing New Zealand businesses, helping us to stand out on the global stage, and make a difference to the lives of New Zealanders.

In this conversation we talk about: 

• Recent market activity: everything's down but people are still buying
• EasyCrypto expanding into overseas markets,
• Their process for listing new digital assets - how do they decide what to list and their ethical considerations,
• The TerraLuna crash and stablecoin depegging event,
• The price of cheese.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:25 Current market conditions
• 06.08 Do market factors affect Easy Crypto?
• 09.13 People are still buying crypto 
• 13:45 Is crypto its own asset class?
• 15.03 Koura Investments KiwiSaver
• 17.37 EasyCrypto global expansion
• 20.58 On the Brasilian crypto market
• 22.30 Lightweight NZ exports
• 26.56 Banking as an export & the regulatory aspects
• 30.52 Ethics around coin listings & approaches to risk
• 36.46 Terra death spiral
• 41.27 EC circuit breaker
• 47.38 BCNZ
• 51.33 What's next for easy crypto?
• 54.50 Rapid fire
• 56.43 Fin

Some notes from the show:

• EasyCrypto’s expansion overseas https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/452991/easy-crypto-secures-17m-backing-from-investors
• Koura KiwiSaver Scheme https://www.kourawealth.co.nz/
• Terra Death Spiral https://blockchain.org.nz/2022/05/17/crypto-market-plunges-hard-and-fast-investors-are-spooked/
• Kindrik Partners (prev. Simmonds Stewart) has free resources for startups: https://kindrik.co.nz/resources/startup-resources/
• BCNZ https://blockchain.org.nz/ 

Contact Paul:

• LinkedIn
• EasyCrypto

Find Jeff:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn 

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Media Enquires:

• team@blockchain.org.nz 

Recorded at blockheight 737904. The BCNZ Podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.