Robert Testagrossa is a software developer and serial entrepreneur based in New York City. He has founded and owns companies in the cryptocurrency, NFT, fintech, retail, and luxury hospitality industries. He is the founder of Artes Development, a provider of custom software development services for SMB and enterprise clients.
In 2012, Robert got involved in the cryptocurrency community. That year he started BitcoinBlaster.com, one of the first bitcoin-only e-commerce stores selling consumer electronics on the internet.
In 2013, Robert started programming his own automated cryptocurrency trading software through strategies including cross-currency arbitrage and swing trading. Later that year, he came on board The CryptoCurrency Analytics Company as Partner and Lead Developer and helped expand its offering.
That same year, Robert went into retail as Owner and President of Cloud99 Vapes, a chain of retail vape stores. From their initial store in Nanuet, NY, Cloud99 Vapes expanded to four locations throughout New York. However, pandemic and regulatory pressures took their toll, and Cloud99 Vapes closed in late 2020.
Outside of his work, Robert loves to discuss existentialism, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David Foster Wallace, and film.