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Ian Rogers

Chief Human Agency Officer (formerly Chief Experience Officer), Ledger

Search every verified Ian Rogers interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ian Rogers, Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, appeared in two recent podcasts. In a November 2025 episode of the GoPro Podcast, he discussed his career in music and technology, including his work with the Beastie Boys, Yahoo Music, Topspin, Beats Music, and Apple Music, as well as his current focus at Ledger on digital ownership. He also spoke about the importance of creativity and being "tier one" for a specific audience, citing LVMH's Bernard Arnault as an example. In a separate conversation with Justin Aversano and Hedvig Maigre, Rogers discussed digital art and collecting, stating that the earlier digital art market was a "speculative bubble" rather than an art collector bubble, and that organic collecting would need to grow over time. Rogers also shared his views on the future of work, saying he believes people will increasingly delegate to AI workers, and that AI changes the relationship between labor and capital. He reflected on his time at Apple, noting he was relieved to leave but later missed the adrenaline of the work. In the podcast with Aversano, he also mentioned sending a Polaroid to an artist's blockchain wallet and discussed music recommendations, including records by Salt, Sudan Archives, and Rochelle Jordan.

Recent appearances

  • #215. Hedvig Maigre & Ian Rogers

    October 07, 2026 · 📺 Justin Aversano

    On November 9th, 2025, Justin Aversano spoke with Hedvig Maigre and Ian Rogers about the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. Maigre, a Paris-based multidisciplinary creator, explores visual storytelling across mediums, while Rogers, Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, has spent his career shaping the future of creative technology and digital ownership. Together, they discussed how artists navigate emerging technologies, the evolving role of creators in Web3, and the importance of building lasting cultural value in the digital age. X: ⁠@iancr⁠ X:⁠ @HedvigMaigre

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  • Ian Rogers: The Blueprint for Modern Music Apps

    August 18, 2026 · 📺 Nemo Design

    Today we sit down with Ian Rogers and chat about the difference between people who are genuinely excited by technology and the people who see a way to make money from it. Ian has spent his career on the leading edge of the technologies that reshape culture, from building for the Beastie Boys in the ’90s to Yahoo Music, Topspin, Beats Music, and Apple Music. Now at Ledger, Ian is focused on building products and experiences that give people more ownership and control in the digital world. A conversation about music, tech, culture, and staying curious about what comes next.

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  • From Slayer T-Shirts to Louis Vuitton: Ian Rogers on Selling Culture

    August 10, 2026 · 📺 Dialectic Podcast with Jackson Dahl

    Full transcript and all links: https://dialectic.fm/ian-rogers Ian Rogers is Chief Human Agency Officer of Ledger, the Paris-based security company whose hardware wallets secure much of the world's crypto. He now focuses on how Ledger can enable us to work with AI agents while maintaining our secrets and value. His career has spanned music, culture, brand, and "the technolog(ies) people are going to hate next." He built and ran the Beastie Boys web presence in the 90s before working on music on the internet for over a decade: file sharing at Nullsoft (Winamp and Gnutella), early streaming at…

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  • Don't Take Crypto Security for Granted ft. Ian Rogers from Ledger

    January 29, 2026 · 📺 Real Vision

    Recorded at Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi, Ledger's chief experience officer Ian Rogers joined Bijan Maleki to talk about the ...

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  • Anything That Can Be Hacked Will Be Hacked | KOL's Meet With Ian Rogers For an Unfiltered Discussion

    January 13, 2026 · 📺 Ledger

    Ledger CXO, Ian Rogers caught up with Gigi, Joey Moose and Professor Crypto a Ledger Op3n to talk: • Digital abundance vs digital scarcity • Why AI agents need crypto to transact • Quantum computing isn’t 20 years away • “Anything that can be hacked will be hacked” • Why secure screens & devices matter This is the future and it’s closer than you think. Check out our devices: shop.ledger.com

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  • Ledger's Ian Rogers: New Touchscreen Wallets, Crypto vs. TradFi, and Why NFTs Aren't Done!

    December 21, 2025 · 📺 SolanaFloor

    Ian Rogers (Chief Experience Officer, Ledger) joins us live at Solana Breakpoint 2025 to unveil the all-new Ledger Nano Gen 5 and explain why storing crypto on your phone is like "driving a tractor on the freeway." In this exclusive hands-on interview, Ian breaks down Ledger's new touchscreen lineup—including the premium Ledger Stax, the Solana-edition Ledger Flex, and the mass-market Nano Gen 5. We dive deep into the security risks of software wallets, why "Every failed crypto idea from 2021 will be mainstream by 2036," and why he remains incredibly bullish on digital art and NFTs despite th…

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  • Ledger Takes on Crypto’s Security Crisis as Hacks Surge

    December 19, 2025 · 📺 FINTECHTV

    See more on FINTECH.TV https://fintech.tv/ledger-takes-on-cr... In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency, security remains one of the industry’s most pressing challenges. As digital assets grow in value and adoption, so does the incentive for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities. At Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi, FintechTV’s Rachel Pether spoke with Ian Rogers, Chief Experience Officer of Ledger, to examine the evolving threat landscape, the rising risks faced by institutions, and how Ledger is adapting its security solutions to meet these demands. Founded more than a decade ago, Le…

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  • Breakpoint 2025: Product Keynote: Ledger (Ian Rogers)

    December 12, 2025 · 📺 Solana

    DISCLAIMER The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without und…

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  • EP15: IAN ROGERS

    December 01, 2025 · 📺 NoahAbramsStudio

    This week I’m speaking with Ian Rogers. As a kid growing up Indiana, Ian’s only plan was to smoke weed and ride skateboards for the rest of his life, and while he has managed to accomplish those goals, Ian has also established himself as one of the most influential voices of the digital age. From music, to fashion, to finance his ability to successfully navigate the intersection of human beings and technology is second to none and it is executed with a humility that only the Midwest could produce. It was as a student at Indiana University where his passions for music and computers would colli…

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  • Affiliates Put Ledger on the Spot: Ian Rogers Unfiltered

    November 24, 2025 · 📺 Ledger

    Ledger Op3n 2025 was an incredible opportunity for us to speak with people from all over the world about the next era of digital ownership. Lucas Amendola, Yurufuwa, and Eren Caner joined our Chief Experience Officer, Ian Rogers at Ledger Op3n to ask some burning questions we know you'll want the answers to. Lucas, Yurufuwa and Eren provided us with different perspectives on the cultural impact of crypto in their countries, and why Ledger is the right security solution for them. Check out our devices: shop.ledger.com

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  • Episode 15: Ian Rogers of Ledger — Not Your Keys, Not Your Crypto Privacy | Privacy in Motion

    November 24, 2025 · 📺 CoinDesk

    In Episode 15 of Privacy in Motion, Ian Rogers, Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, examines why people willingly "discount" their personal lives online by trading data for attention, and questions why we don't protect ourselves like established luxury brands protect their value. We explore why self-custody is the heart of crypto, providing a path to true digital self-sovereignty and identity protection. To learn more, visit https://midnight.network/break-free. - #cryptocurrency #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin #crypto Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube:    / coindesk.  . CoinDesk is the…

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  • Ledger  Chief Experience Officer on the Future of Bitcoin Self-Custody | Ian Rodgers

    November 11, 2025 · 📺 Supply Shock

    In this episode, we sit down with Ledger's Chief Experience Officer, Ian Rogers, to discuss the launch of the new Ledger Nano ...

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think it just grows. I think it grows over time because what you have is you know like again you know what you had you know someone was asking me like when does digital art kind of bounce back and I was like well there it was never there like you had this spec it was a speculative bubble it wasn't an art collector bubble and so I think what you need now is just going to take you know you have to have you know organ”

“I always really come back to fundamentals. I remember when a VC a venture capitalist told me once that you know because every it was going to be the uber the uberocation uber ubification uberification of everything right um and you know some things did get uberized and some things didn't and how could you tell if you were an investor which one would and which one wouldn't and the way the venture capitalist explained ”

“I think that the future of work is that we all will delegate to AI workers. We are now and I think again that sounds dystopian and I really I don't think it is. I don't think we know what that does to society. I get definitely grant you that. I've been saying for years that AI feels so big to me that it changes the relationship between labor and capital.”

“Anytime anyone tells you something sucks, you can just say, shut up and do your job. It's so easy to find things that suck. 99.9% of all music, all movies, all books, all human beings, all NFTs. Yes. Are garbage. Find me the 1%.”

“The good news is that we are moving finance to crypto rails. Um the bad news is is that we aren't caring enough about security as we're doing it.”

“Permissionless money is massive. Um, in a digital world, having digital permissionless money, like it's impossible to, you know, to overstate that. And we are just like once upon a time humanity moved from God to state. We are moving from state to network and of course the network will have its own money.”

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