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After selling his company Snips and its voice recognition technology for several million dollars, French entrepreneur of Lebanese origin Rand Hindi has embarked on a new venture: protecting the privacy of digital transactions in cryptocurrencies. Named France’s top innovator of the year by MIT in 2014, he claims to have made a breakthrough in the field with his new start-up, Zama.What drove you to launch Zama right after selling your previous start-up, Snips?I've been obsessed with data privacy since I was a teenager. When we started a social network in the 1990s — Planet Ultra, now defunct — having access to users' personal data as an operator made me very uncomfortable.Before selling Snips in 2020, I discovered a few years earlier a cryptographic technology — which uses mathematical methods to encrypt information — called FHE,...
After selling his company Snips and its voice recognition technology for several million dollars, French entrepreneur of Lebanese origin Rand Hindi has embarked on a new venture: protecting the privacy of digital transactions in cryptocurrencies. Named France’s top innovator of the year by MIT in 2014, he claims to have made a breakthrough in the field with his new start-up, Zama.What drove you to launch Zama right after selling your previous start-up, Snips?I've been obsessed with data privacy since I was a teenager. When we started a social network in the 1990s — Planet Ultra, now defunct — having access to users' personal data as an operator made me very uncomfortable.Before selling Snips in 2020, I discovered a few years earlier a cryptographic technology — which uses mathematical methods to encrypt information —...
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