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    Mike Dudas

    Mike Dudas

    VP BD: @paxos
    GP: 6th Man Ventures
    Founder: @the-block-1, @button
    Sales & BD: @braintree, @venmo, @google
    Learning: @stanford-university-1

    Sales New York City Stanford University '01
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    Experience
    The Block
    The Block
    Founder, Chairman 2018 - Present (over 8 years)
    We are creating a community, The Block, to cater to enthusiasts of blockchain technology and cryptoassets. The Block is the on-ramp to the world of programmable money, distributed... more ledgers and decentralized applications for 10s of millions of people. We cut through the noise and surface signal in an accessible way across key areas of blockchain and cryptoassets via media and information curation and our "Slack meets Reddit" knowledge community.
    Button
    Button
    Founder, CRO 2014 - 2018 (over 3 years)
    Button is the partnerships platform for mobile commerce, powering experiences that are faster, simpler, and perform better than any other method. Button helps publishers and... more merchants build partnerships to earn revenue and acquire users through a mobile marketplace. Button's marketplace partners include the leading mobile commerce companies in the world, such as Amazon, Walmart, Uber, OpenTable, Target, Apple and many more. Button has raised more than $34M in funding across 3 rounds.
    Venmo
    Venmo
    Head of Mobile BD 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
    Braintree
    Exit
    Braintree
    Sr. Director, Mobile BD 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
    Google
    Google
    Partner Development, Google Wallet and Offers 2009 - 2013 (about 4 years)
    TargetSpot
    TargetSpot
    Director of Business Development 2007 - 2009 (about 2 years)
    Walt Disney Animation Studios
    Walt Disney Animation Studios
    Corporate Strategic Planning and Development 2001 - 2004 (about 3 years)
    G2M Ventures
    G2M Ventures
    Founder
    LinksDAO
    LinksDAO
    Founder
    6th Man Ventures (6MV)
    6th Man Ventures (6MV)
    Founder, Partner 2021 - Present (over 5 years)
    Walt Disney
    Walt Disney
    Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategic Planning and Development 2003 - 2004 (about 1 year)
    Analyst, Corporate Strategic Planning and Development 2001 - 2003 (about 2 years)
    * Managed deal analysis and support of ABC/ESPN's $2.4B NBA television contract agreement. * Provided strategic, valuation and financial analysis to support the CEO and Board... more of Directors in their assessment and rejection of a $60B hostile takeover bid by Comcast Corporation. * Supported M&A activity including E! Entertainment and led internal cable & TV consulting projects.
    Founder
    Button, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), LinksDAO, G2M Ventures, The Block
    Employee
    Walt Disney Animation Studios, Google, Braintree, TargetSpot, Walt Disney, Venmo
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    About
    Achievements

    Father to two beautiful children, husband to an amazing woman

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    Skills
    Advertising Apple Bloomberg Consulting CVS Entertainment Financial Financial Analysis Management P&L Planning Strategic Planning
    Locations
    New York
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