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In this episode, Grey Jabesi interviews Mance Harmon .Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder / CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security , Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.

Mance and his partner, Leemon Baird (who invented hashgraph), have been in the technology/security/privacy space for decades. Their latest venture, Hedera Hashgraph, is a platform that provides a new form of distributed consensus. It\\u2019s kind of like blockchain on steroids, except that it\\u2019s not a chain; it\\u2019s a graph. Also, it\\u2019s not open source; it\\u2019s patented. Their aim was to take all that is good about blockchain and create an enterprise-level platform that is faster, stable, and more secure.

In today\\u2019s episode you\\u2019ll learn:
\\xb7 About Mance and Leemon\\u2019s technical and entrepreneurial background
\\xb7 Why Leemon invented hashgraph
\\xb7 How hashgraph differs from blockchain
\\xb7 Why Mance and Leemon patented Hedera Hashgraph
\\xb7 The types of applications for which hashgraph can be used
\\xb7 About Hedera Hashgraph\\u2019s immediate and anticipated plans (including a cryptocurrency)

links;
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mance-harmon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manceharmon/