Author: Christian Amanpour
Jackie Reses got an early start on the entrepreneurial life.During what she describes as a “pretty gritty childhood” in Atlantic City, she and her brother ran carnival games on a Jersey Shore boardwalk, one of which (flukey ball), she says, “I think is now illegal.””I think the thing that really drove me was my own desire to succeed and make sure that I had the security that I could create for myself, and so I felt that self-reliance and that entrepreneurial background really is what drove me,” Reses told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin in a Changemakers Spotlight video interview.Reses was named…
People wait in line for T-shirts at a pop-up kiosk for the online brokerage Robinhood along Wall Street after the company went public with an initial public offering earlier in the day on July 29, 2021 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesIt was a bad day for tech stocks, and a brutal one for fintech.As the Nasdaq suffered its steepest decline since 2022, some of the biggest losers were companies that sit at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.Stock trading app Robinhood tumbled 20%, bitcoin holder Strategy fell 17% and crypto exchange Coinbase lost 18%. Much…
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He also said the cryptocurrency exchange is looking to invest more outside of the U.S.Carlos Jasso | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNow that President Trump has announced plans for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, crypto industry leaders can focus on what else they want to hear from the new administration on Friday.Just over six weeks into his second White House term, Trump is hosting his first Crypto Summit, a nod to an industry that played a major role in his election victory in November. No executive was more central to…
AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks speaks with President Donald J Trump as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Jan. 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, marking a major shift in U.S. digital asset policy.White House Crypto and AI Czar David Sacks, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, wrote in a post on X that the reserve will be funded exclusively with bitcoin seized in criminal and civil forfeiture cases, ensuring that taxpayers bear…