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Kraken raised $27 million in its first 14 years. Nasdaq just bought in at $21 billion. The story starts in Tokyo: - 2011: Jesse Powell, a philosophy grad who sold in-game currency to gamers, flies to Mt. Gox after a hack - He concludes the world's biggest bitcoin exchange
AI visual note: The image shows a young man with long blonde hair and dark-rimmed glasses looking directly at the camera in a softly blurred indoor setting. This appears to be Jesse Powell, the philosophy graduate turned crypto entrepreneur, as referenced in the post about his pivotal 2011 visit to Mt. Gox in Tokyo that launched his journey from selling in-game currency to founding Kraken, which recently sold to Nasdaq at a $21 billion valuation.