Watch Halsey Minor Explain Uphold (Video)

Halsey Minor explains how he wants to get rid of all fees and make banking reliable and transparent with his new venture uphold.
Valentin Schmid
10/14/2015
Updated:
10/17/2015

Halsey Minor has seen it all. He made millions founding tech legends like CNET.com and Salesforce.com in the 1990s. 

He then withdrew from the world plagued by a severe bout of depression which took him six years to overcome. He ended up losing his fortune when he declared bankruptcy in 2013.   

Because of his experiences with banks during his half a decade of suffering, he decided to change the consumer experience of money for good.

In this exclusive and in-depth interview, Halsey Minor told Epoch Times how Uphold (formerly Bitreserve) works for consumers by taking money into the cloud.

Valentin Schmid is a former business editor for the Epoch Times. His areas of expertise include global macroeconomic trends and financial markets, China, and Bitcoin. Before joining the paper in 2012, he worked as a portfolio manager for BNP Paribas in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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