Michael Sonnenshein

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Michael Sonnenshein is the CEO at Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager. Under his leadership, the firm has grown to be the definitive leader in crypto investing, offering a wide range of investments including single-asset and diversified products. Michael is regularly featured on CNBC and Bloomberg and was honored in 2018 as one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street. Michael serves as a member of the Grayscale Board of Directors, CME Group Bitcoin Futures Council, and NYU Blockchain Association.

Prior to joining Grayscale, Michael was a financial advisor at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions, and an analyst at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle‐market hedge funds and institutions. Michael earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and his Master of Business Administration from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

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  • As we begin to look at assets like Bitcoin and the unbelievable adversity it’s faced over the last 10 years, every day that Bitcoin doesn’t go away, every day that Bitcoin overcomes a new challenge, for me that makes me feel that Bitcoin will do either one of two things, it will either survive and become all these amazing things that we think it can be, which will cause its price to be a lot higher, or it is possible something else may come along that will displace it and Bitcoin goes to zero. It likely will have a binary outcome.”

  • Bitcoin prices doing nothing but go down the entire year has not deterred our existing clients from putting more capital to work, Investors are taking the pullback as an opportunity to increase their exposure.

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