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Mike Belshe, from $20M Bitcoin under a couch to $20B+ in custody: the BitGo story
Season 1 · Episode 4

Mike Belshe, from $20M Bitcoin under a couch to $20B+ in custody: the BitGo story

How Belshe's quest to secure a laptop with $30 million in bitcoin became BitGo

Empire

March 25, 202154m 43s

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Show Notes

My guest today is Mike Belshe, Founder and CEO of BitGo. But before that, he used what he learned at Netscape to help Google develop Chrome. Like many of us, Belshe stored his first Bitcoin on an old laptop. But after his investor friends started sending their digital assets his way, that "old laptop" was suddenly worth millions. Here's how his quest to secure those assets eventually became BitGo.

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