At least we made Ana Jipa laugh as the conversation began. Ana is a co-Founder and the CEO of Olyn. Olyn is a universal asset registry service, built on the blockchain.
Some of the topics we discussed included:
- Being born in Romania but growing up in Spain and Germany
- How traveling really helps one understand the world at scale
- Studied aeronautical engineering
- Not having a linear career
- Interning at a VC in Silicon Valley
- Drawn quickly to entrepreneurship in the Health Care space in Romania
- Coming back to Spain and joining a startup there (APIs)
- How companies treat data as a product
- Learning about eCommerce from a fashion company
- Focused on technology is changing people’s lives
- Olyn’s (All In Ownership) genesis
- Identity linked to payments
- Allowing third parties to build services via the wallet
