Podcast: Scott Robinson - Silicon Valley in a Box

Scott has worked with Plug and Play, The world’s largest fintech accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley, for the past three years managing a number of FinTech, Blockchain, and Bitcoin-related initiatives.
Scott has worked with Plug and Play, The world’s largest fintech accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley, for the past three years managing a number of FinTech, Blockchain, and Bitcoin-related initiatives.

Scott has worked with Plug and Play, The world’s largest fintech accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley, for the past three years managing a number of FinTech, Blockchain, and Bitcoin-related initiatives. Additionally, Scott is the founder of Plug and Play Bitcoin, the co-organizer of the world's oldest Bitcoin Meetup and founder of the first nationally syndicated Bitcoin Job Fair. Since the launch of the program in February 2015, Scott and his team have accelerated over 72 FinTech startups and has led numerous investments into the domain.

Through both the program and individually, he has invested in early stage startups including Factom, Draft, Float, Bitwage, Blockscore, ChangeTip, Blockseer, Purse.IO, SFOX and many more. His objective is to find, fund, optimize and expedite startups' growth while connecting the teams to top-tier investors and Fortune 500 companies.

Scott graduated from UCLA in 2008, where he received his B.A. in History.