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Sascha Darius Mojtahedi on the TechTO stage

Sascha Darius Mojtahedi

Co-founder & CEO, Parallel Studios

Web3 gamingTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Sascha Darius Mojtahedi is co-founder and CEO of Parallel Studios, the Toronto studio behind the blockchain trading-card game Parallel and the Echelon Prime ecosystem. He was previously CEO of Bunz, the Toronto barter app, where he launched its BTZ digital currency in 2018. Before startups he spent over a decade at TD Bank.

On the TechTO stage ×2

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Sascha

In their words

So really, people are where the value is — not platforms.

TechTO, Feb 2019 · watch at 3:07

60 percent of the value is going to you right now, and our goal is to go to a hundred percent of the value going to you by 2030, and 0 of it going to us.

TechTO, Feb 2019 · watch at 6:04

This is gonna sound like the craziest thing that we've done, but we literally backed it with our own money — we took money and we put it in a bank account.

TechTO, Feb 2019 · watch at 7:36
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Quick answers

What is Sascha Darius Mojtahedi known for?

Co-founding and leading Parallel Studios, the Toronto blockchain-gaming company behind the Parallel trading-card game and Echelon Prime. Earlier he was CEO of Bunz, where he launched its BTZ digital currency in 2018.

What did Sascha Mojtahedi do before Bunz?

He spent over a decade at TD Bank (TD Canada Trust), latterly working on new-platform technologies, before moving into startups.

Was Sascha Mojtahedi the founder of Bunz?

No. Bunz began as a Facebook trading group started by Emily Bitze; Sascha joined as CEO and built the app's BTZ currency.

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