Barry Silbert is an American

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

and

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who is the CEO of the Digital Currency Group. As of 2022, he was estimated to have a net worth of $3.2 billion.

Career

In 2004, Silbert founded

SecondMarket Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue for issuers, brokers, shareholders, and prospective investors of private company stock. Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $40 billion in transactional volume and h ...

, an online marketplace for shares in private technology companies. It was valued at $200 million in 2011. It was acquired by Nasdaq in 2015. Silbert began buying up

Bitcoin Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; Currency symbol, sign: ₿) is the first Decentralized application, decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown entity published a white paper under ...

in 2012. In October 2015, Silbert founded Digital Currency Group. In November 2024, Silbert announced that he was launching Yuma, a decentralized artificial intelligence company.

References

{{reflist Living people Goizueta Business School alumni American businesspeople 1976 births