Brendan Blumer
Brendan Blumer is an American entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He started his career at 15 years old, when he developed a website to sell virtual assets in the multiplayer online gaming space. Blumer has been building disruptive technology companies since 2001, providing automated valuation, purchase, and resale of in-game items in the world’s largest online video games. His career also progresses into a collaborative data-sharing ecosystem. Brendan Blumer was an early investor in blockchain and transitioned to full-time involvement in the space—he is the founder and CEO of Block.one, the tech company producing the EOS.IO distributed ledger software.
Brendan Blumer is:
- An American tech entrepreneur based in Asia.
- He had a great interest in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG).
- At 15, he started his first business selling magic swords and armor used in online role-playing games like World of Warcraft.
- He developed Gamecliff in 2001. Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) acquired the operation in 2005.
- He founded Accounts.net in 2007, which established its name in the market and became the world's largest game-account selling website.
- He has been a speaker at various events including:
- Consensus NYC 2017
- London Fintech Week
- CLSA Investor's Forum
- Forbes Global CEO Conference
- Blockchain Live 2017
- Web Summit
- Milken Institute's Summit
- Cointelegraph's Blockshow Asia
- DC Blockchain Summit 2019