An Interview with Michael Stollaire, CEO of Titaniumhttps://medium.com/tbis/an-interview-with-michael-stollaire-ceo-of-titanium-42ba7d5c73eMy typical day is anything BUT. I usually only get around 4 hours of sleep a night.
From the second I wake up until the second I collapse into bed, exhausted, there is constant activity of one kind or another.
I get anxious just thinking about all of the business and entrepreneurial opportunities that exist in the blockchain space. It’s ripe for the taking, and other than Electroneum’s Richard Ells, I can’t think of another prominent person in blockchain that is a businessman. Moreover, a businessman that wants to do what I want to do: punch a hole in the ceiling of the subculture of blockchain which is 1–3% of the world’s population, create products and services that have real-world use cases, and build an organization that is holistic, consisting of development, sales, marketing, production, PR, etc.
I am leading by example, and hope that more and more blockchain “companies” will be created. There is the use of the term “project” in the blockchain world, and I think it’s ridiculous. When I think of a project, I envision Dad building a treehouse for his kids.
Titanium is NOT a project. Titanium is a BUSINESS, one that will revolutionize the IT infrastructure industry.
How did you get involved in blockchain?
Titanium is not my first dive into blockchain. I spent a long time at Verge, and although a I’m very technical person and an expert in enterprise infrastructure management software, they used me as a missing link of sorts: the face and voice of Verge, sales and marketing.
However before Verge, I was an investor, and I spent my time closely studying ICOs. I got all of the ICO announcement emails and went through them daily. But it became disappointing because I only found a small handful of ICOs that deserved attention.
However, this frustration led to my creation of Titanium. I got sick and tired of waiting for a great ICO, so I decided to create one instead.
The vast majority of ICOs are ridiculous, scams, or both. I always use the example of BananaCoin in interviews and speaking engagements. They might be doing something useful, but I find the whole idea laughable. Someone “disrupting” the banana industry? Give me a break.
Disruption in southern California means something like the 1994 Northridge Earthquake that twisted steel like pretzels, severed huge highways and turned buildings into piles of junk.
That’s what Titanium is: the foundation of a decentralized Internet 3.0. TBIS is the definition of disruption.