Cory Klippsten
Founder and CEO, Swan Bitcoin
Cory is a frequent guest and contributor to tech, financial and Bitcoin media. Recent appearances include The Keiser Report, top-rated Bitcoin podcasts Tales from the Crypt and Stephan Livera, and Forbes. A former local NBC TV reporter, Klippsten is comfortable on camera and has taken the stage at hundreds of events.
Media Appearances
Other Selected Media Appearances
- What Bitcoin Did: Bitcoin's Wild Start to 2021
- Altcoin Daily: Bitcoin Is the Best Savings Vehicle Of All Time
- Bitcoin Magazine: The Bitcoin Immune System
- Bitcoin Magazine: Celebrating the Third Bitcoin Halving
- Fun with Bitcoin: Cory Klippsten’s Background
- Bitcoin Radio Podcast: GiveBitcoin.io Founder
- Crypto Cousins: The Gift of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Audible: Ten Million Bitcoiners
- Protocol Podcast: The Gift of Bitcoin with Cory Klippsten
- TF Blockchain: Dollar Cost Averaging Your Bitcoin
- Crypto Token Talks: Give Bitcoin
- Peace Freqs: Kung Fu Chops, Bitcoin Pain Points
- Anchor: Swan Bitcoin with Cory Klippsten
- A Boy Names Pseu: #131 Keepin’ Bitcoin Kosher With Cory Klippsten, CEO of Swan Bitcoin
- Total Connector Podcast: TotalBitcoin #50: Cory Klippsten- Give & Request Bitcoin, Timelock, and Educate.
- Bitcoin Rapid Fire: Cory Klippsten: Give the gift of Bitcoin
- Citizen Bitcoin: Cory Klippsten: Starting Up a Bitcoin Company
- Bitcoin Echo Chamber: Bitcoin, Economics, Technology, and Philosophy
- Keiser Report: The Gift of Bitcoin
Writings on Bitcoin
Ten Million Bitcoiners: The Intransigent Minority
Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners in the United States of America will cross ten million. When we hit that milestone, it’s game over: Bitcoin wins.
Read on Swan SignalI have dedicated my life to recruiting the other 99% of our intransigent Bitcoiner minority here in the United States. There are 100,000 of us already. We want to recruit the other 9.9 million.
Biography
Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Swan.com and author of the upcoming book “Bitcoin: Your Bright Orange Future.” He also serves as an advisor to Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT) and The Bitcoin Venture Fund, and is a partner in Bitcoiner Ventures and El Zonte Capital. As an advisor he has supported more than $300M of fundraising since 2016, and as an angel has funded more than 50+ early stage tech companies. Before startups, Klippsten worked for Google, McKinsey, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley, and earned an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago. He grew up in SF and Seattle, split 15 years between NYC and Chicago, and now lives in LA with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include basketball, history and travel (Istanbul and Barcelona are favorites).
Cory is available to cover a broad spectrum of topics, including:
- The future of Bitcoin, financial markets, and venture capital
- Potential paths and pitfalls on Bitcoin’s journey to global adoption
- Macroeconomics, geopolitics, currency wars, and trade wars
- Early 1990s Seattle music scene and the Seattle Supersonics.
Quotes
There’s never been a better time to get into bitcoin on a risk-adjusted basis. So much infrastructure and education has come online over the past 18 months. We have an incredible entry point.
Right now there’s an estimated 7 million people around the globe that own $100 or more worth of bitcoin. We are going to try to create 21 million newcoiners with $100 dollars or more.
The biggest mistake people make when they’re in a hole is trying to take it out in one swing. Get on a program where you’re consistently paying down your debt every month. Your positive momentum will feed on itself and is likely to open doors for making more money so you can pay down even faster, and get back to saving and investing for your future.
It just didn’t seem like there was a solution until Bitcoin, because Bitcoin affects and fixes so many different things and settles so many different arguments, and it just opens up such a great bright orange future.
I’ve never been motivated to work harder, recruit more people, to save more people in the Bitcoin lifeboat. We are all here at the beginning of the Bitcoin Renaissance, and it’s more incumbent upon us than ever to recruit people to the cause and get them building, and get them working, and get them buying, get them holding, get them figuring out how to spend, how to store.
Swan Bitcoin exists to basically right wrongs done to Bitcoiners.
We’re in a position now with out-of-control money printing that our Founding Fathers thought would make the country fail.
In a complex system like a society you only need a small number of people to be totally dedicated to a cause or not accept an alternative to flip an entire society to their way of thinking.
One’s propensity to store value in the Bitcoin protocol is directly correlated to understanding. So Bitcoin marketing is just Bitcoin education.
I have dedicated my life to recruiting the other 99% of our intransigent Bitcoiner minority here in the United States. There are 100,000 of us already. We want to recruit the other 9.9 million.
Adoption dominates all other priorities for Bitcoin.