s companies. Pierce is credited with creating and consolidating the market for virtual goods in online games. Pierce founded IMI Exchange, formerly Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), in 2001. The Company raised over $100 Million from blue chip investors such as Goldman Sachs and Oak Investment Partners. During Pierce's ten

s companies. Pierce is credited with creating and consolidating the market for virtual goods in online games. Pierce founded IMI Exchange, formerly Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), in 2001. The Company raised over $100 Million from blue chip investors such as Goldman Sachs and Oak Investment Partners. During Pierce's ten

ch Center littp://www.volpexint.govictur,/2006.1thnl Brock Pierce, entrepreneur, creator of virtual currencies and goods, and major stakeholder in Internet Gaming Entertainment, chairman and president of Revenue Apex http://www.brockpiercc.org/ Paul Kirkaas, software engineer Al Seckel, Cognitive neuroscientist, author l

and vandalism charges. After the Biosphere 2 disaster, he participated in raising financing for a virtual currency scheme (MMORPGs, or MMOs) called Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE). This was a successor company to Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), a dot-com burnout, whose principals included the former child star Brock

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