Don’t worry, you don’t need to know anything about Bitcoin to laugh at Margaux’s hilarious hijinks. She didn’t really know what Bitcoin was when she got her first job in crypto in 2012, but now here she is, The Queen. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, Margaux tells the tale of how she first got into technology via a broken arm and how she started her first company on the way to Burning Man. When she isn’t founding startups, she’s making fun of tech guys. Only one guy has cried, but three have gone to prison. She tells the story of her journey from humid and humble Florida to the bacchanalian heights of Silicon Valley. Enjoy startup stories filled with absurd celebrity encounters and come to realize most people are crazy and no one knows what they’re doing. Margaux regales us with tales of how she became a Queen while also pissing off a US President while MCing the now infamous FTX conference in the Bahamas. Don’t worry; she won’t try to sell you an NFT.
MARGAUX AVEDISIAN: ( Performer & Writer) Dubbed “Queen of Bitcoin ” by the Wall Street Journal, Margaux’s experience as an entrepreneur on the ground floor of innovative technology spans a decade in tandem with standup comedy. She recently received the Producers Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival for her solo show The Queen of Bitcoin: The Rise and Fall. In 2012 she relaunched the first American Bitcoin exchange and co-founded two others. She has also served as Executive Vice President for the Transform Group from 2016-2018 during the ICO boom. She MCed the FTX conference before its impending bust where Bill Clinton spoke. Margaux has connected hundreds of entrepreneurs with business leaders, technologists, policymakers, and creatives to promote tech startups and cryptocurrency. She is currently a standup comedian, actor , writer, host and CEO/Co-founder of a fashion technology startup, Beyond the Runway. She speaks at numerous conferences and hosted/produced a podcast called Burning Bridges with Margaux. She has a BA from Mount Holyoke College where she Majored in Psychology and Minored in Chemistry. She also has an MFA in Fashion Merchandising from the Academy of Art University.
SPECIAL NOTE: BFF 2023 Binge Fringe Festival of Free Theatre is presented through generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, and Playhouse PALS.
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“THE QUEEN OF BITCOIN: THE RISE AND FALL” in the BINGE FRINGE FESTIVAL!
Location:
The Other Space (at Santa Monica Playhouse)1211 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA, USA
The Other Space (at Santa Monica Playhouse)
1211 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA, USA