 Live from Toronto, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Futurist Conference 2018. Brought to you by theCUBE. Hello everyone, welcome back to theCUBE coverage here in Toronto, Canada, we're in Ontario to the untraceable Blockchain Futurist Conference's day two of two days coverage. I'm John Furrier, your host. Our next guest is serial entrepreneur Chris Harper who's the CEO of Jeriki and Mapo Ventures. And Zip Script. And Zip Strip. Yeah, yeah. Hey, a lot of balls in the air, a lot of irons on the fire, welcome to theCUBE. Hey, good to have me man, I'm excited to be here. This is awesome. Before we get into your serial entrepreneur, what are you working on now? Take a quick minute to explain. Yeah. Where the names came from, what do they mean, what are you doing? So first things first, we'll start with Jeriki. Jeriki is a Japanese proverb which means achieve enlightenment through one's own efforts. So Jeriki's a shell company and we currently run this company, it's called Chase Your Drink. It basically is replacing pop and juice as a mix for any hard liquor. No sugar, no calories, nothing artificial. And the kicker, we got nine B vitamins in these to combat your hangover the next day. So if you're not drinking with Chase, you're drinking wrong. It's a chaser. Chaser, exactly. And these are in stores like, it'll be in Sobeys, Farm Boy in Canada, GNC soon, and it's going really well. Okay, how about the venture firm? Yeah, so the next company is Mapoho Ventures. Mapoho is actually, it comes from a group of lions in the African savannah that were only six lions, but they dominated the savannah for their whole lifespan, which is super rare. And they took down animals like giraffes, rhinos and became legend. It was a folk legend about these Mapoho lions. So Mapoho is a venture firm. We specialize in food and beverage companies. If you're doing something epic, we want to talk to you. And then we also specialize in blockchain, cryptocurrency and anything that's on the forefront of what's going on in the tech space. So if anybody's interested, they think they have a great idea, you can reach out to us wherever you guys put contact information, I don't know. But yeah, yeah, definitely. What's the website? MapohoVentures.com. Okay, got it. Mapoho Ventures. And how much are you guys investing? What's the kind of around size you guys do? So it totally depends. We almost don't have a limit or a minimum. It's all about the team, the idea, where you're going and what you need will get you what you need. Is it a new firm? Or you made investments? It's a new firm. So we have two companies that we're looking at right now but we don't have any companies in the portfolio. We're looking to add. Great, awesome. Well, any great ideas? Check it out. How about crypto? What do you think? What are you seeing on crypto? What kind of deals? Obviously the flight to quality right now is starting to see. The ICO is kind of burning out here and there but the ones that are solid are standing and growing as a build out mode. I mean, the whole space right now, everybody's worried about it, right? If you're an outsider, you're looking at it like it's all down. But one thing I did want to say during this interview was this is a great event, untraceable. They set up an incredible event. And even if you're not into crypto currency, if you're a business person, crypto's only been around for six, seven years. So everybody in this room did something before crypto. So they're all multifaceted individuals. And if you're not in crypto, if you're scared of crypto, if you're hesitant about crypto, if you don't understand it, you should be here, you should be at these events because it's priceless networking and who knows where you can go. Plus starting companies on a down, on a down the bottom of the market is when the best companies get built. A thousand percent, you know? What did Warren Buffett say? Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. Looks to me that the market is incredibly fearful. So maybe you should consider being greedy right now. For the people that aren't here, what's the vibe of the show? Which should take us the hallway conversations like? Yeah, I mean the vibe of the show, this is actually one of the best conferences I've been to. I've been to a few in New York. This one is incredible. Everyone's so friendly. You can come here, don't know anyone. People will say hi to you, they'll introduce themselves to you. Next thing you know, you had an idea, now you have funding. But it's up to you to make this situation a great situation. What's interesting is this is a sector blockchain and crypto attracts alpha entrepreneurs, alpha engineers. You mentioned smart people in this world that've done things before. So this is really interesting. Yeah, people always forget that. They see crypto and they get nervous. It's like I don't know anything about it. Remember guys, this is a new industry and we're only in the first couple innings. This is going to be huge. So come, learn and surround yourself with killers. What's the coolest thing you've seen so far here? The coolest thing I've seen so far, you know I'm going to be completely honest with you. Larry King, I was so happy to see Larry King and it's awesome that a guy like that is supporting the community. Because this is really a revolutionary technology, blockchain technology. You've done a lot of entrepreneurial things since you were 10, you were talking before we came on. Yeah. How does that help you right now navigate this scene and other looking at deals and your own deals that you're building out and you're investing. Other entrepreneurs are coming in, sometimes first time entrepreneurs. How does it help you and what advice would you give other entrepreneurs? So I started really young. Not knowing where I was going to go was kind of just like in my blood. But you know, you got to get out, you got to talk to people. I always say no deal happens on your couch. You got to jump off the porch. You got to go out, you got to network, you got to meet people. And I started doing that at a young age which got my conversation skills a lot more advanced. So now I can go in and close the deal in 10 minutes where you know, back in the day, it might take me two hours and I probably wouldn't even close it. So what I would say if you're thinking. 10 minutes is a good metric. It is, it is. Hey, I don't need to say more or less. If it's an interesting idea, let's go. You should be able to tell me what it is. We should be able to hammer something out. Yeah. That's pretty much what's going on. Awesome. And what's some of the plans that you have for your adventures? Let's go back to the zip line. What's that one? Oh yeah, ZipScript. ZipScript, I'm sorry. So I can't talk too much about ZipScript. It's launching in fall of 2018. ZipScript is basically going, is revolutionizing higher education industry in the transcript section in that industry. And all I can say is we may or may not be using blockchain technology to do it. Got it. Yeah. So, Jason, that sounds very cool. Yeah, it is really cool. And I mean, you guys can go to chaseyourdrink.com, check it out. You can head over to our Instagram, chaseyourdrink. It's taken over, you know. This cola flavor I've got here and tropical thunder is pineapple mango, but cola tastes just like Coca-Cola without any of the bad ingredients. And it's really taken over, you know. Our biggest problem is supply. We just can't produce enough, but we're fixing that problem. That's a good problem to have. It's a very good problem to have, right? How did you get into the venture side? You're scratching an itch. You wanted to put some of your money into work. Did you raise unlimited partners? How's that, how'd that develop? Totally. What's the current situation? Yeah, so it was a group of fellow entrepreneurs and we're all working on our own companies, but we're all ADD, right? And we're like, okay, I'm doing this. I'm doing that. But we have all these contacts, all these different skillsets, and we're all great friends. So that's another very important thing that most people talk about. Surround yourself with like-minded people, but you want them to have different skillsets. I don't want a clone. I have a clone. We're not going to work well together. If you want added value, you don't want to subtract value. Yeah, exactly. So we came together and we're like, we have so much value in so many different spaces. We can walk companies through a proven concept in any industry, food and beverage, cryptocurrency, and basically you won't make mistakes that we make. That's the bottom line. So you'll accelerate your success by working with us. Well, Chris, great to have you on. Congratulations on your success. It was amazing, man. Now, Chase, check out the fund. Have you got a great idea? Contact Chris, go to thecube.net. You can find his information there. I'm John Furrier here in Toronto with all the action here at the Blockchain Futures Conference with the futures being created, robust industry, people looking at the long-term. This is where the action is. Thanks for watching. Stay with us for day two coverage after this short break.