5 Questions with journalist turned crypto investor, Jon Russell
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Benjamin Cher
MOST venture capital (VC) firm partners have a background in banking or were founders themselves, but Jon Russell’s journey to becoming partner at Crypto.com Capital is quite unconventional.
Russell is most well known for his time at tech news site TechCrunch, where he came into his own, writing stories about the startup ecosystem in South-east Asia and uncovering scoops on funding and other developments. This might seem worlds apart from what partners at VC firms do, but as Russell puts it, there is some synergy between the two.
In this month’s 5 Questions, Russell tells us how the transition has been for one of the unlikeliest VC partners in the ecosystem and what his take on crypto is.
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