08 Pythagoras Pizza's Cryptocurrency May Change Franchising as We Know It

Published: Oct. 3, 2017, 7:47 p.m.

On this episode of The Barron Report, Evan Kuo, CEO of Pythagoras Pizza, teaches us about his new cryptocurrency proposal.

Where many companies turn to stock options, Kuo has proposed a Bitcoin-like system in which chefs, delivery drivers, and even customers can rack up “fragments,” which are essentially small stake ownership in the company. Though fragment-holders have no say in the company’s business, the fragments have value based in the monthly revenue, and those fragments are fully fungible.