Bill Barhydt, born in New York City and residing in Silicon Valley, is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer in Internet technologies for 30 years. Bill is the founder and CEO of Abra, the world's leading crypto investment platform. Abra has onboarded hundreds of thousands of crypto investors into this new and exciting space. Bill is a well-known advisor and investor in many start-ups and venture funds ranging from consumer Internet to frontier tech to crypto and space. Before starting Abra, Bill spent 10 years working on mobile money and financial inclusion projects around the world and was a consultant to many governments, aid agencies, and telecoms on mobile banking deployments. This led Bill to Bitcoin in 2011. As a globally recognized expert in Internet and Mobile technologies, Bill has presented at over 100 conferences, including The World Economic Forum, The US State Department, The Mobile World Congress, and TED, where he gave the first-ever TED Talk on Bitcoin in 2011 when Bitcoin was trading at $3. Bill started his career working at the CIA on secure messaging systems and at NASA developing infrastructure for the early Internet. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill was involved in building some of the core encryption infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all know and use every day.
