Company Name: Bitwise Asset Management
Founders: Hong Kim and Hunter Horsley
Date Founded: December 2016
Location of Headquarters: San Francisco, CA and New York, NY
Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: 65
Website: https://bitwiseinvestments.com/
Public or Private? Private
In 2016, Hong Kim and his co-founder at Bitwise Asset Management (Bitwise), Hunter Horsely, were living the startup life — working from a living room in San Francisco and looking for a project that they could develop into a business.
While experimenting with various ideas, none of which were gaining much traction, their friends wouldn’t shut up about Bitcoin. Plus, by early 2016, every venture capital firm in Silicon Valley was focused on Bitcoin, as well.
“We wanted to avoid it for a long time because [there was] too much hype,” Kim told Bitcoin Magazine. “But then, just by osmosis, we spent more and more time thinking about it.”
By the end of the year, after
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