# Exponential Thinking: A Conversation with Anne Connelly, Author of Bitcoin and the Future of Fundraising

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Podcast: [The PM Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pm-podcast-1211123)
Published: 2026-04-25T03:34:01+00:00
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## Resource

Anne Connelly is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and a leading voice in blockchain and cryptocurrency for social impact. Anne advises corporations, startups, and nonprofits worldwide, and teaches Blockchain-based Business Models for Social Impact at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. She is also an expert on decentralized societies at Singularity University and has lectured at Oxford’s Saïd School of Business on impact finance.Her work has taken her from boardrooms to the field, including with Doctors Without Borders in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the co-author of Bitcoin and the Future of Fundraising and Trust, and has been recognized as one of CBC’s Young Leaders Changing Canada and among the Fifty Most Inspirational Women in Technology.In this episode, we trace her journey from Ottawa to Africa—where she carried a backpack full of cash to pay NGO staff and saw wheelbarrows of currency needed to buy a tomato—and how those experiences helped shape her belief in digital currency, technological solutions, and exponential thinking.

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