When the company, Galaxy Digital (BRPHF), is mentioned, Co-Founder Mike Novogratz name comes to mind. It is certainly mentioned the most in context with Galaxy Digital. Novogratz was a partner at Goldman Sachs, before becoming a Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Mike has served on the New York Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets from 2012 – 2015.
Certainly, Novogratz has impressive credentials however There is an article / Interview with Co-founder and Partner Sam Englebardt. LOTM likes Galaxy Digital (BRPHF)* as a core holding in the buildout of what LOTM projects is a decade and longer growth of Blockchain and Crypto technology. Galaxy certainly appears to be the leading Investment Banker, Venture Capital, Asset Manager and Crypto Miner and Trader combination in the industry. As such we are always seeking and interested in the people behind the company.
The original plan for Galaxy was built around more traditional ways to make money with venture capital funding, debt and late-stage private equity, but it was overtaken by events around the incredible crypto bull run across 2016–17.
“The plan went out the window when we realized, wow, we’re in a better position than anybody to really build Galaxy Digital and pursue this mission of institutionalizing crypto and blockchain,” says Englebardt, officially a co-founder, along with Chris Ferraro and Kim Pillemer. “And the rest is this wild journey we’re on.” – Sam Englebardt
LOTM: Meet Sam Englebardt: Co-Founder and Partner at Galaxy Digital
An article by Andrew Fenton, CoinTelegraph – March 26, 2021
Zombies, NFTs and the metaverse: Galaxy Digital’s Sam Englebardt
Sam Englebardt has produced zombie films, helped build the fourth largest cinema chain in America and hobnobbed with crypto pioneers in the early days. Now he and his partners are investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the creation of the metaverse.
Galaxy Interactive managing partner Sam Englebardt first met billionaire and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz during a whirlwind, celebrity-studded trip to Haiti in 2016. Englebardt’s fiancée, Dr Megan McGill, had invited him down at the last minute for a shindig put on by Artists for Peace and Justice.
“It was a fun weekend,” Englebardt explains. “It’s [Crash director] Paul Haggis’ organization. Susan Sarandon was there and Ben Stiller. It was a great celebration of this really terrific school that they built.”
“Mike and I really hit it off. We realized we had a ton of overlapping interest in technology: in Bitcoin and crypto specifically, in VR and AR,” he says. Nine months later, after their friendship had developed, Novogratz told Englebardt he needed him to join the small team in New York building up his family office, Galaxy Investment Partners — then intended to be a “small private operation”.
Link to CoinTelegraph’s, / Andrew Fenton’s complete article.
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