{"id":20590,"date":"2019-03-20T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/?p=20590"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:44:01","slug":"the-superior-product-always-wins-dash-core-ceo-ryan-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/the-superior-product-always-wins-dash-core-ceo-ryan-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe superior product always wins\u201d Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Taylor doesn\u2019t immediately come across as a cryptocurrency bigwig. When we meet, he\u2019s wearing a sharply tailored suit that screams Wall Street, while also radiating a grounded, no-nonsense, slightly dweeby air that couldn\u2019t be further from the sector\u2019s dominant piratical edge. He doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019d have much interest in your average ICO-funded boat party.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s probably exactly why he\u2019s managed, in a shifting series of leadership roles, to keep Dash a top-20 cryptocurrency for more than four years\u2014eons in crypto time. His current role is as CEO of Dash Core Group (DCG), a for-profit company that is funded by the Dash network and makes major contributions to it, but ultimately answers to the network\u2019s maintainers. We discussed the sophisticated governance and technical innovations that now make Dash seem increasingly ahead of its time\u2014and in the end, he showed he\u2019s ready to be just as bold as anyone in crypto.<\/p>\n<p>Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get involved with Dash?<\/strong><br \/>\nInitially, just as a general community member with ideas. Then I ended up moving to Phoenix for personal reasons [around 2014], and the founder of Dash, Evan Duffield, was in Phoenix. So I reached out to him, and I started getting more involved. I put together presentation decks for him about<\/p>\n<p>strategy stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10684 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/breakermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ryan-taylor-e1553007221112.jpg?w=257\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You don\u2019t seem like an anarchist, the kind of person who would have necessarily been deeply into crypto in 2014, instinctively.<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, no. I was working here in New York, first at [the high-end consulting firm] McKinsey for seven years. I became an associate partner in their financial services &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. <strong>Please read Full Story at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Taylor doesn\u2019t immediately come across as a cryptocurrency bigwig. When we meet, he\u2019s wearing a sharply tailored suit that screams Wall Street, while also radiating a grounded, no-nonsense, slightly dweeby air that couldn\u2019t be further from the sector\u2019s dominant piratical edge. 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