The company says 61% of the two-way digital currency ATMs in the United States are operated by CoinCloud. “A lot of the responses I got were similar to my early days at Coinstar where people thought I was nuts to even consider it, but I realized that the Bitcoin space was far greater than anybody could imagine.” Founded in 2014, CoinCloud recently deployed its 1,250th machine, with 50 installations during the last week of 2020 alone. “I started interviewing my closest confidants to ask them what they thought of the space,” Tomlinson said. And considering market trends, Tomlinson may have entered the segment just as it’s about to explode. Following a stint with a company in the automated retail space, in November 2020 took a position as Chief Revenue Officer with Las Vegas-based digital currency kiosk maker CoinCloud. Tomlinson left Coinstar in 2010, spending a few years getting reacquainted with his family. Today, Coinstar boasts more than 20,000 kiosks and processes 43 billion coins a year. People he told about the company thought the idea of counting peoples’ coins for a fee was crazy. At the time, the company had just five machines and a dozen or so employees.
In 1994, right out of college, Tomlinson joined coin-counting kiosk company Coinstar. And if that history is any indication, he’s done it again. Michael Tomlinson has shown a knack over his career in the self-service industry for being at the center of “the next big thing” at just the right time.
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