Hangout with William Mougayar: Author of The Business Blockchain

The Business Blockchain: William Mougayar, Author & General Partner, Virtual Capital Ventures

We're delighted to have William Mougayar, author of 'The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology (http://thebusinessblockchain.com/)' joining us via Hangout at our next meetup.

Doors open at 6pm, talk starts prompt at 6:30pm - free & open to all. Please register if you're planning to coming along though so we get an indication of numbers beforehand.

More about the book

The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why and how of the blockchain. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Business-Blockchain-Practice-Application-Technology/dp/1119300312?ie=UTF8&Version=1&entries=0)

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Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and creatively disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically, blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched, they never go down, and offer an incredible amount of resiliency, making them dependable and attractive for running a new generation of decentralized services and software applications.

The Business Blockchain charts new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before. William Mougayar anticipates a future that consists of thousands, if not millions of blockchains that will enable not only frictionless value exchange, but also a new flow of value, redefining roles, relationships, power and governance. In this book, Mougayar makes two other strategic assertions. First, the blockchain has polymorphic characteristics; its application will result in a multiplicity of effects. Second, we shouldn’t ask ourselves what problems the blockchain solves, because that gives us a narrow view on its potential. Rather, we should imagine new opportunities, and tackle even more ambitious problems that cross organizational, regulatory and mental boundaries.

William Mougayar Biography

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As a long time industry insider, William Mougayar is a prolific researcher, writer and theorist who has been described as the most sophisticated blockchain business thinker. His views and insights are well respected worldwide.

William is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners; in addition to being an investor, advisor, and Board member in some of the leading organizations in this space.

William is the General Partner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar (https://openbazaar.org/) open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation (https://ethereum.org/), a member of OMERS Ventures (https://omersventures.com/) Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center (http://coincenter.org/), and founder of Startup Management (http://startupmanagement.org/).

Previously, he held senior level positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and AberdeenGroup, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.

William is a graduate of the University of Washington, the University of Western Ontario Ivey School of Business, and attended the University of British Columbia Graduate Commerce School.