#349: Shant Kevonian, CEO of EtherMail, on Web3 Email, The Future of Email, Ethereum, and How to Successfully Launch Tokens

Shant Kevonian is the Founder and CEO of EtherMail. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategy, directing its product vision, developing company culture, and managing its agendas. A technical founder with a love of computer programming from a young age, Shant left university early to join the Barcelona startup scene. He joined hospitality startup ByHours as an intern and was promoted to CTO within six months, leading a 20-strong team.

Shant has developed high-performance, proprietary algorithms for several startups in his decade-long career as a CTO. He was a senior technical advisor for the interactive virtual concert platform SoundStage.fm, acquired by Audius in 2022. He is an enthusiastic gamer with a preference for RTS and RPGs, and his interests include dabbling in new technologies, entrepreneurship, and good comedies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the future of email is web3
- The secret sauce of launching a token
- 320 billion emails are sent every day
- EVM compatibility
- Building on Ethereum
- Purpose and tokenomics of $EMT
- GDPR nonsense
- Getting incentivized for your data
- Elite gaming setups
- FOMO in crypto
- The killer use case in crypto will be a consumer app

EtherMail
Website: ethermail.io
X: @ethermail_io
Telegram: t.me/ethermail_official

Shant Kevonian
LinkedIn: Shant Kevonian

 
 
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