Too Long; Didn't Read
Hacker Noon, the company I now ran with my husband David, was raising funds for the first time and in the midst of our breakup with Medium. I reached out to Evan Schwartz, who was then a software developer at Ripple (the 3rd largest cryptocurrency) about a potential partnership, but later on, Ripple former CTO, Stefan Thomas, helped close the last of our $1.07M equity crowdfunding round. Little did I know, just a few months earlier, Stefan had left Ripple to found Coil, the Web Monetization solution provider.