Robbie Ferguson

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Robbie Ferguson

Immutable Persident, Co-Founder

Robbie Ferguson (President, Co-Founder) Forbes 30 Under 30, Thiel Fellow. Robbie co-founded Immutable, Australia’s fastest growing technology startup, in 2018 at the age of 21. Immutable is a $2.5 billion NFT platform which has raised more than $300M from Temasek, Tencent, Galaxy Digital, and Coinbase. Robbie previously built an automated capital gains tax platform at KPMG which was licensed to Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. After graduating high school as the equal-highest ranked student in Australia with a perfect ATAR, he became obsessed with Ethereum in 2015, and dropped out of a Computer Science/Law degree at the University of Sydney to found Immutable. He was awarded the Thiel Fellowship in 2020. Robbie believes that future generations will spend most of their waking hours in virtual reality, and wants to ensure the digital worlds they live in are as economically meaningful as the one we currently inhabit.
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Panel: ANZ Unicorn Co-Founders Hosted by King River Capital

TUE, OCT 17, 10:00 AM
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Chris Barter, Sydney-based co-founder of King River Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in Software and AI Technology companies, will moderate a panel of unicorn co-founders from Australia and New Zealand. The panelists - Robbie Ferguson (Immutable), Gus McDonald (Cover Genius), and Aaron McDonald (FutureVerse) - will share their remarkable stories of growth and thoughts on what the future may have in store.
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