An Interview with Tammy Camp, CEO & Founder of Stronghold

The yWhales team speaks with Tammy Camp, Co-Founder & CEO of Stronghold, a virtual payment network that works with businesses such as IBM to make payments quicker and easier while maintaining regulatory compliance and interoperability between payment systems. Stronghold aims to provide fast, secure, and accessible financial services for all.

 

About Guest

Tammy Camp is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stronghold, a financial infrastructure company that provides fast, secure, and accessible financial services through a simple API.Inspired by her previous entrepreneurial experiences across the technology and startup landscape, Tammy founded Stronghold in 2017 to bring better financial services to a broader range of market participants. Before founding Stronghold, she served as a Partner for the Silicon Valley venture capital firm 500 Startups. There, she invested in portfolio companies and spearheaded development of its growth and marketing curriculum. Tammy was also the first Head of Growth for Stellar, the open-source payments platform for fiat and digital currencies. In this role, she helped the platform attract an astounding 4 million users within its first two months of operations. Outside of her work with Stronghold, Tammy also serves as an advisor to numerous companies in the security, consumer, Internet, and executive research fields, including Walmart, Lloyds TSB, Hotwire.com, Holiday Autos, and eBay.

 

Tammy is a respected leader in the startup and fintech spaces and has been an avid technologist since she wrote her first code at the age of six. Forbes, USA Today, NPR, and the International Business Times have featured her, and Tammy has been invited to share her expertise onstage by global leaders such as Amazon and IBM. Fortune’s “The Ledger 40 under 40” list also recognized her as a young leader transforming business at the intersection of finance and technology.  She recently joined the inaugural cohort of On Deck’s Fintech Fellowship. Tammy is a 2011 graduate of the Global Startup Program at Singularity University at NASA Ames and received her bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University. She holds the kiteboarding world record for most completed back loops in one minute.

You’ll learn about:

• Tammy’s background
• The SHx token
• The ecosystem fund
• Virtual payment networks
• Real time payments
• Tammy’s vision for Stronghold

 

Resources: 

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

Connect with Stronghold: Twitter | YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Discord | Telegram | Newsletter

Timestamps

[0:28] How Tammy got into crypto

[11:15] The early days

[13:05] The technology behind crypto

[16:04] Speculators in the market

[18:30] Education

[21:10] Perspectives on POW vs POS

[25:30] How do you define Web3?

[30:05] How do you define decentralization?

[32:30] Utopia decentralization

[35:32] Protocol security

[40:52] About Stronghold

[44:23] The Stronghold Token

[47:29] The technology beyond Stronghold

[51:26] Stronghold Pitch

[55:50] Industry complexities

[1:00:10] Educating regulators

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.