Dragonchain Profile

“Blockchain as a service.”

“To solve real world business problems at scale.”

“Software sales.”

“The Dragonchain platform was originally created by our team at The Walt Disney Company in 2014. The system focused on solving business problems at an enterprise scale. In 2016, we released a list of use cases that were explored at Disney to the W3C Blockchain Community Group. Also in 2016, Disney released the platform under an open source license. The original team from Disney commercialized the platform in 2017. 

Dragonchain is a hybrid blockchain software development platform, offering secure and fast deployment of blockchain-powered business solutions written in any programming language, interoperable with any external blockchain, legacy system, or application. The platform can be hosted in any cloud or on-premises environment. 

Dragonchain’s architecture considers interoperability and integration as key features. From inception, we had a goal to increase adoption via integration with real business use cases and traditional systems. Dragonchain and its customers have demonstrated extraordinary usability features in many applications, where users do not need to know that the system is backed by a live blockchain.”

“Disney's policy on releasing open source software required that no Disney IP name is used and that the trademark is available free and clear.

I was a former graphic and logo designer and had an interest in the rotational symmetry of letters in logos and so wanted to use the "N" in the center of a logo wherein the "N" in CHAIN would meet upside down with the ending "N" in another word. Given that we had launched inside of Disney, the word Dragon was appropriate.

I proposed the name Dragonchain (with the above-described logo), and the team and then Disney approved.”

“Yes — I'm a serial entrepreneur, having started businesses in my career in many industries including media, printing, and software.

I have always been interested in finding unique and counter-intuitive solutions to pressing real-world problems.”

“Yes. Communication of very new and very abstract concepts. Also, because of the uniqueness of our solution, we've had to address issues related to the magnitude of possible disruption that our solution and its use could cause.

We corrected with a consistent approach to communicating key concepts and capabilities, as well as continuous building of new and specific solutions.”

“We are industry agnostic. We target unique business opportunities that can benefit from our capabilities.”

“We focus on strategic communications and fundamentals related to the utility of our platform and solutions.”

“Through networking and communicating strategically within different industries.”

“Token holder count.
Network metrics (transactions, blocks).
Verification node runners.
Deployments.
Proof metrics (measure of outside energy applied to the securing of business transactions).
Revenue.
Network energy consumption.”

“‘Zero to One’ [and] ‘Super Happy Dragon Lucky.’”

“Google G Suite.”

“Nothing really surprised me about entrepreneurship, but I have been very surprised by the tribalism that we've encountered in the blockchain and semi-anonymous ‘crypto’ world.”

“With lots of effort.”

“Having a great team and very clear goals.”

“I don't think that I'm successful yet. Otherwise, I work hard on things that have long-term payoffs.”

“Working at a book, music, and video store.

I learned a lot about the difference between a good manager and a bad manager.”

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