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start to finish takes three weeks, but it never
pers is when you’re going through a process takes three weeks. So, I’ll say, we need in-
of thinking about every aspect of the compa- formation about your smart contacts and we
ny, there are moments where you realize: need you to read what we wrote.
that’s a lot of work, or that’s not going to work. Then, they go away and then come back after
The lawyer said so-and-so, and I’d have to a while.
make my jurisdiction in Gibraltar and I don’t Recently, I had one client, and it really took
want to do that. That’s too big a risk for my three weeks.
investors... They had everything together. They had a
Many, many things happen along that route good team, they understood, they had all the
and people drop out, usually around second technological background, and a really good
draft. First draft, we’re all talking about ideas, project which I obviously can’t tell you about.
it’s good. By the second draft they’re being But, they finished it in three weeks. Amazing.
reviewed by some outside people, and that’s Then they said, okay, we’re just going to send
when they start to look at the larger implica- our lawyers, and then we’ll get back to you to
tions. do the finishing touches. That was two mon-
Sometimes we also get things like, my CTO ths ago!
quit, and we have to wait before we write the
technical section. VoB: Shall we speak now about the second
CTOs are very hard to find, you know. way you are involved in the Blockchain indu-
stry?
It’s a big deal around this industry. There are
not too many really, really great CTOs any- Grace Rachmany: So I guess I should do the
way, and then with Blockchain, it’s an even book thing, right?! I only have a couple left...
smaller talent pool. I have one client and they people like them! Well, people like stuff, free
said, we’re building on top of a (I won’t tell you stuff, right?! So, one thing we were talking
which) smart contract network and that smart about is, how hard it is, with the leadership
contract network was too slow, and we deci- of these organizations, to get a whole bunch
ded we need to try these three other smart of people in different places in the world with
contract networks. So, a smart contract ne- different professions, to work together. We,
twork meanEther, NEO, Cardano... all those myself and Marco Houwen, noticed that we
ones, they wanted to try out some new ones were having some problems, and wrote a
to see which one was right for them. So, they book, ‚So, You’ve Got a DAO...: Management
went away for six weeks and then they came for the 21st Century’, about leadership. Mar-
back. So, we have a structure that takes that co Houwen is from Luxembourg, and he’s in
into account. charge of Infrachain, which is the private pu-
blic sector initiative for the EU for Blockchain.
VoB: How long is the process of writing a white So he’s also saying, okay, how are we going
paper? to get this whole thing to work?
We’re really creating a new culture. We cre-
Grace Rachmany: Writing a white paper from
ated this technology a few years ago, you may
The reason that people don’t finish white pa-