“Your Company is Your Soul” with Altif Brown & Wyatt Meldman-Floch

I had the pleasure of interviewing two of the co-founders of Constellation Labs, Wyatt Meldman-Floch, Chief Technology Officer, and Altif Brown, Chief Communications Officer. Constellation is a tech startup working to address the limitations inherent in current blockchain technology — most notably the scalability issues crippling the technology’s chances of being adopted widely by the general public.

Jean: Thank you so much for doing this with us! What is your “backstory” of how you become a founder?

Wyatt: To be completely honest, I did not set out to become a founder — I just sort of wound up in this position. My background is in programming, so at the end of the day, I’m really just a programmer that was passionate about an idea enough to quit my day job. Fortunately for me, I found people who shared in that belief and wanted to work to create and foster the growth of a company that is now spearheading the evolution of the most exciting industry of our time.

Altif: I have a very similar story of how I became a founder. I wasn’t a programmer or working on leveraging distributed systems on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence for NASA — like Wyatt via SETI — but I also didn’t sit down one day and decide “today is the day I start a company.” I was bouncing around from tech…