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Episode 19: The Journey of Raising $100M ICO (Initial Coin Offering) as a Venture-Backed Unicorn with Brandon Brunet, Controller at Kik
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On this episode of The Backbone, I chat with Brandon about: His move into tech from PwC to joining Kik when it was only 40 employees; What Kik is all about; The process of raising $100M through a Token Distribution Event or Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and launching your own cryptocurrency; What its like to scale the finance function as a company grows from 40 people to 160 The importance of the finance function at a technology company --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backbone/message
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On this episode of The Backbone, I chat with Brandon about: His move into tech from PwC to joining Kik when it was only 40 employees; What Kik is all about; The process of raising $100M through a Token Distribution Event or Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and launching your own cryptocurrency; What its like to scale the finance function as a company grows from 40 people to 160 The importance of the finance function at a technology company --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backbone/message
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