# Team

The Continental team has over 50 employees. The top positions of the team are distributed as follows:

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Top Management
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The first members of our team and I began this journey way back in 2018, driven by growing frustration with the previous seven years spent in the predominantly confusing e-commerce ecosystem. We were involved in millions of dollars in sales, yet it seemed like we could work directly for the services we were forced to use. They were making money transfers while our margins were constantly shrinking. On top of that, the nightmares of working with payment processors like PayPal were incredible. Something needed to be changed. We knew that we were not the only ones in this despair! Thus was born the first version of our idea called "Continental Technology". We could create a transparent e-commerce ecosystem with the kinds of completely open source information that both merchants and consumers desire. The crypto industry was just gaining momentum as an alternative market, unbeknownst to us, Satoshi was gaining momentum with the idea of decentralized ledgers and blockchain. We have assembled a development team and built our own marketplace focused on sellers.

Our team is uniquely positioned to be the first to successfully bring the next generation e-commerce platform to market; a consumer-friendly bridge between the traditional fiat-based economy and the new crypto/blockchain economy. Continental is designed for mass adoption; integration of several useful features such as multiple generated polymorphic block chain protocols, AI neural network compatible QAS search with interactive concierge, decentralized file storage within generated blocks and databases, distributed seamless SVP conversions and conversion smart contracts. Perhaps more exciting for non-technical readers may be the impressive crypto lifestyle products we develop in our design studios and software labs, like the Continental Card and Continental\_AI. The days of paying 0.5% just to complete an online transaction must end. The days of corporations and government agencies infiltrating our personal lives must be over. The days of biased search algorithms and the dominance of antitrust laws must be over. It's time right now to embrace a technological future in which the people - you, me and our children - take control. Seize the moment. I believe this white paper will inspire you to join Continental!

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