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Shakil Khan

Founder at CoinDesk

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Shakil Khan is the founder of Coindesk, co-founder of Student.com, and an angel investor in more than 30 projects.

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Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
BitPay BitPay
-- -- $ 0.51 M
Jan 08, 2013

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