Michael King, WDX

[Dave Birch] Michael King, the M.D. of the WDX Organisation studied Economics at the University of York. His subsequent career was based on the computer industry and then in the City. In the mid 1980s he joined Reuters with whom he spent the time leading up to “Big Bang” as Major Account Manager and then he was with Citibank when the EBS consortium was formed. He rejoined Reuters as Third Party Application Manager in the mid 1990s. In 1996 Michael formed 21store.com the UK’s first “dotcom” and became the Managing Director. At the same time, he had had the idea for a World Currency Unit (or "wocu"). The wocu idea, which was developed and funded in 2009, is the subject of this podcast.

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