The PiratePod is a Web3 focused podcast from Arrington Capital where we set sail into the uncharted waters of Web3 entrepreneurship and those building the at the forefront of crypto. Episodes will celebrate and interview the bold risk-takers and adventurers who dare to defy the norm. These modern-day pirates are founders who lust after the thrill of venturing into the unknown and thrive on the exhilarating web3 startup life itself. We will dive into new apps, defi, trading, infrastructure, c ...
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Psychology for Founders with Pathwise: Personality Styles, Being Present & the Evolution of Identification that Impacts High-Functioning Teams
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In slight a deviation from our norm, Todd Hollow-Bist joins the Pirate Pod from Pathwise Leadership (https://pathwiseleadership.com/), a graduate-level psychology program for teams and business leaders. Todd joins Keli (Arrington Capital) to discuss the importance of understanding personality styles and how they impact business leadership and team …
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Are Intent Centric Swapping Protocols Superior?
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The founders of Intensity Labs join the Pirate Pod to talk about Shogun, an intent-centric project that aims to provide a superior trading experience by focusing on user-friendly interfaces and cross-chain trading. Their approach includes a peer-to-peer matching system called Coincidence of Wants (COW), single-sided vaults and the use of existing p…
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Evolution of Web3 Security: Going Beyond Smart Contract Audits
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Founders from Drosera (www.drosera.io, @DroseraNetwork) and Lockchain(www.lockchain.ai, @lockchain_ai) join us for a conversation that should be paramount to all (though maybe not the most glamorous): how the web3 security landscape has evolved. These two experienced leaders discuss their unique approaches, being mindful of web2 operational securit…
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Arthur Hayes and Michael Arrington: Geopolitics, Macroeconomics, Investment Trends and Founder Advice
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Arthur Hayes joins Michael Arrington for a discussion on the current geopolitical arrangement and his prediction on the coming shift to a new system. The episode covers the interconnectedness of volatility and Bitcoin, how the macro world revolves around this, fiscal dominance and central bank’s current decision making, the importance of energy cos…
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James Bayly from Subquery joins the Pirate Pod to discuss the journey of Subquery and its role in empowering developers in the Web3 ecosystem. Subquery provides a data indexing layer for developers to easily access and query blockchain data, improving the user experience of Web3 applications. The team has recently launched a decentralized network w…
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MyPrize: Revolutionizing the Online Casino to Bringing Content Creators & Communities Together
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MyPrize recently launched as the first online crypto casino that enables novel multiplayer experiences, bringing content creators and influencers closer to their communities. Second time founder (pirate) Zach Bruch brings his background in web3 to a new vision that allows creators to engage with their audiences. This interview comes on the heals of…
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QED: Horizontally Scalable Layer2 on Bitcoin & Ethereum
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As if we needed another reason to be bullish on Bitcoin in 2024, QED is poised to catapult Bitcoin to a new level of utility. Carter Feldman joins the Pirate Pod to discuss QED and the promise it brings to the future of Bitcoin-based applications by supporting all dApps (such as AMMs, stable coins, and more) but also horizontally scalable applicati…
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Tanssi: Easily Deployable Appchains over Rollups & L2s
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Coming on the heels of a new $6M fundraising round, Tanssi's co-founder Francisco Agosti joins the Pirate Pod to dicusss why Tanssi appchains are changing the game and argulable are better than existing L2s and rollups when it comes to decentralization, security and more. With a maniacal focus on the developer experience, Tanssi has empowered dozen…
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Superstate: Modernizing the Infrastructure of Traditional Finance
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Superstate is modernizing investing by offering investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. This exclusive episode comes on the heels of a recently announced Superstate Industry Council as the team focuses on building reliable, compliant products. Jim Hiltner and Reid Cumin…
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Delegate: Connectedness with Crosschain Name Service, Secure Onchain Identity & More
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Foobar and Munam Wasi, the founders of Delegate, discuss their vision to tackle the challenges of simplification and cross-chain integration across crypto, motivated by personal experience of clunky and risky setups for managing various wallets across web3. With over $1B worth of assets secured across nearly 200k wallets, Delegate has had significa…
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BBO Exchange: Unique Decentralized Derivative Trading with OEV
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Ray, the founder of BBOX (BBO Exchange), sits down to share his vision for what he sees as the ultimate derivative trading platform. As the first perpetual DEX to utilize Oracle Extractable Value in its liquidation process, BBOX has pioneered an innovative auction mechanism that capitalizes on the inherent latency in oracle price updates - a featur…
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Esprezzo's No-code Data Automation: A Convo About Enabling Web3 with Real-time Smart Contract Data
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Remy Carpinito, a second time pirate (founder), has built Esprezzo with a strong understanding of the underlying power of the intense amount of data that is being created with blockchain - and growing exponentially. In this episode, he discusses the importance of data automation in Web3 an the need for no-code automation tools for non-technical tea…
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