Earning Bitcoin With E-Commerce - The Exchange with Alex Adelman The Exchange with KB

In The Exchange with KB, host Kirill Bensonoff continues his series of interviews with today’s top innovators and business leaders to know. In today’s episode, KB is joined by Alex Adelman, CEO & Co-founder of Lolli which rewards online shoppers with bitcoin.



Learn more about our guest:

Alex Adelman is the CEO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that lets people earn bitcoin when they shop online. Alex has also served as the CEO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in ’15 and then by Ebates in ’17. He has also been listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Retail & E-Commerce.


Visit: www.lolli.com and follow him on Twitter: @alexadelman and @trylolli




Timestamps:

00:00 Welcome and introduction
01:02 About Cosmic
03:34 Starting in E-commerce
05:53 Building the Cosmic team
09:03 Will remote work scale?
11:50 Dealing with hiring
14:13 What is Lolli?
16:57 How Lolli works
18:01 Creating accessibility
20:23 Bitcoin pushback
23:21 Challenges for Lolli
25:43 Adding other cryptos
28:14 Merchants and bitcoin volatility
28:50 Stance on Libra and stablecoins
31:54 What’s next for Lolli?
33:55 Conclusion