Launching a Product to Fuel a Movement

A Letter from the CEO

Here in our office in Venice, California, we have a neon sign on our wall that I personally designed for our team. Every employee that passes by is greeted with a simple message: “You’re a gem.”

The message sums up my ethos and the spirit of this company. It’s the reason I founded Gem in 2013, back in the early days of the decentralized movement.

I believe that every person on this planet is valuable. The technological revolution of the past two decades has resulted in massive improvements in people’s lives. But it has also resulted in a huge shift in the economy and the elimination of entire industries, and with it, jobs. But in the decentralized movement evolving rapidly today, everyone has something to contribute to their larger community. Today, as we stand on the cusp of the New Economy, we have an opportunity to reshape how value is captured, shared and exchanged so that it rewards the people creating that value, and not institutions and their middlemen. That’s what this decentralized movement is about. In the New Economy, everyone is a Gem.

Since our founding over four years ago, our culture and core philosophy has attracted some of the brightest blockchain and cryptocurrency engineers and software architects to join the company on our mission to solve the most difficult technology problems in the blockchain space. Together, we’ve designed high-security wallets for cryptocurrency startups. We built the first hardware wallet designed for high-throughput data centers. We also built one of the first enterprise blockchain platforms for large businesses that has won us high-profile customers, including Philips, Capital One, Tieto, Toyota, and other Fortune 500 companies.

The big news

Now, I’m thrilled to report that Gem is launching a new product this summer that will target the next billion cryptocurrency consumers entering the distributed economy. The largest distributed market in the world today is cryptocurrency. It’s a market that we here at Gem are intimately familiar with, not just as blockchain experts, but as crypto investors ourselves. This is a product that is very close to our hearts. It’s something I’ve long planned to build and I’m very happy that it has come to fruition.

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