
Before he became Alphapoint’s CEO, Scott Bambacigno sold enterprise software, built coffee businesses, and took exchange technology on the road. His career follows the patient work of turning a new idea about money into something institutions can use.

From electronic security to a national Bitcoin wallet, Igor Telyatnikov built a career around the machinery other people rely on. The AlphaPoint co-founder’s story turns on a deceptively ordinary question: does it work when someone needs it?