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<aside> 🌐 JDSalbego.com

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Media kit

<aside> 💡 Beyond my passion for scaling tech companies, I'm deeply interested in science (especially the quantum realm), 90s hip-hop, 80s metal, and vintage t-shirts.

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<aside> 📍 Since joining Web3, I’ve traveled to 36 countries and over 324,000 miles, working with some of the most culturally diverse, passionate, and innovative BUIDLers.

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🛠 10+ Years BUIDLing the Web3

Grab more details on my LinkedIn or JDSalbego.com

Scaling Web3 platforms to 380K+ MAUs, 310K+ wallets, and $200M+ in ecosystem volume
Leading and building teams of 50+ across BD, product, ecosystem, and GTM
Raising $50M+ across venture and structured digital asset products
Designing security, risk, and intelligent trust infrastructure across exchanges, consumer, DeFi, and AI-driven systems
Securing partnerships with Polygon, NVIDIA, Chainlink, Securitize, and Google for Startups
Driving growth across 15+ global markets for firms managing $140B+ AUM
Appearing on NASDAQ, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and the NYSE as a commentator on crypto & DeFi
Speaking at 45+ global conferences including WEF, NFT.NYC, CoinGecko, and London Blockchain Week
Featured Cointelegraph Contributor & Executive Industry Council Member of Cointelegraph’s Innovation Circle for Web3 Experts
Pre-Web3 — 7+ years as a business development and commercialization executive in entertainment/media tech with A-list celebrity creators, venture funds, and Fortune 500 companies including YouTube, Disney, Sony, Universal, and Shazam </aside>

📺 Select Videos

Watch more videos on JDSalbego.com

NASDAQ: Play to Earn Gaming and the Future of the Metaverse

Live on NYSE/Fintech TV: Top Brands Are Investing in NFTs and its Paying Off

NFT.NYC/Polygon Studios: Empowering Gamers & Creators in the Metaverse with NFTs

Live on NYSE/Fintech TV: The Future of Blockchain, Payments, and it’s Impact

<aside> 📚 Some interesting trivia about me:

→ Back in 2018, in partnership with the government, I co-organized one of the largest blockchain conferences in the world to date in Tokyo (JBC2018), which was broadcast on TV nationally with 20,000+ attendees.

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Rich Data

<aside> 🔭 *A vita educationis est vita viventium*

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." – Charles Darwin

"Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell." – Elon Musk

"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see it." – Carl Jung

"Play is just another version of work." – Ray Kurzweil

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" – Hunter S. Thompson

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