Bright Sparks is an Athena Media production asking what happens when we enable bright people to follow their curiosity and solve the worlds problems. This 8 part series follows TCD physicist Dr. Shane Bergin as he talks to leading researchers and scientists in Ireland and uncovering why our small island is leading globally in many scientific fields. Bright Sparks is an Athena Media science series made with the funding support of the BAI and the Irish TV licence fee. It was broadcast from May ...
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Liquid is a series dedicated to web3 crypto investing, hosted by Cosmo Jiang and Joyce Yang. Each episode we interview portfolio managers and venture capitalists on how they find, evaluate and select the next generation of great investments. We demystify the world of liquid token and venture investing by talking to some of the best investors about their views on the industry, investment process best practices, and how they see the web3 crypto investing changing over time.
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Wes Tang-Wymer is co-founder of Room40, a crossover investment firm focused on crypto. Room40's platform consists of a multi-strategy hedge fund and early-stage venture funds. Prior to Room40, Wes was a founding team member of SoftBank Group International and SoftBank Vision Fund, where he oversaw investments and held board roles across a range of …
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David is a Senior Portfolio Manager at M31 Capital, a global crypto investment firm with institutional-grade liquid token and venture strategies. He previously co-founded Omnichain Capital, a thesis-driven liquid token fund focused on Web3 infrastructure and middleware. Before entering crypto full-time in early 2021, David spent ten years in tradit…
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Theia - a Private Equity Approach to Digital Assets
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Theia is a liquid digital assets fund applying the principles of prudent investing to blockchain, led by Co-Founders CEO John McNiff and CIO Felipe Montealegre. Prior to founding Theia, John worked in the private equity group at Goldman Sachs, investing in opportunistic real estate and asset management companies. John received his MBA from Massachu…
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Chris Abiaad - Product Manager’s Lens on Investing
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Chris Abiaad is the founder of Frens Capital, a liquid venture fund with a long-only strategy investing based on fundamentals. He previously spent 10 years as a builder in Web2 focused on product, working with data companies such as Enigma.com. Chris has been involved in the cryptocurrency market since 2016 while he was pursuing his MBA at Cornell …
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James Ho is co-founder and Managing Partner of Modular Capital, a fundamental and thesis driven crypto investment firm that invests across liquid tokens and early stage venture. Previously, James was a Principal at Altimeter Capital, a $10 billion technology crossover investment firm where he focused on fintech and crypto investments. Prior to Alti…
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Diogenes Casares - Special Situations Investing in Crypto
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Diogenes Casares is the founder of Patagon Management, a digital assets investment firm with a focus on activist investing and risk-on arbitrage. Diogenes is currently attending NYU. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first research and investment DAO. GCR’s mission is to create a community-driven i…
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Stephen McKeon - Consumer Investing in Crypto
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Stephen McKeon is a managing partner at Collab+Currency, a web3-focused venture fund that has completed over 120 deals across nearly every corner of crypto. Today Collab+Currency focuses almost exclusively on consumer applications and infrastructure. Previously, Stephen was a tenured finance professor at the University of Oregon, and also taught at…
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Eric Chen - Injective is Building for DeFi
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Eric Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Injective Labs, a research and development company focused on creating unmatched decentralized finance solutions. Injective Labs is one of the core contributors to Injective, a blockchain built for finance. Injective is one of the largest Cosmos projects, garnering interest from leading professionals across he…
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Sonya Kim - Progrmd for Fundamental Investing
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Sonya Kim is the founder of Progrmd Capital, an actively managed, long-term focused liquid token fund. Prior to launching Progrmd, Sonya worked at Aberforth Partners and Kiltearn Partners, privately-owned investment firms in Edinburgh, where she helped manage several billion dollars of institutional client capital in undervalued public equities. So…
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Peter Pan is the Co-Founder and Co-Summoner of Hydra Ventures. Hydra Ventures is the first dedicated fund backing investment DAOs. Operating as a DAO itself, Hydra Venture’s mission is to proliferate community first investing across all of web3. Peter is also a partner at 1k(x) Capital, an early stage investment firm specializing in crypto ecosyste…
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Anthony Avedissian - DAO Investing with Seed Club Ventures
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Anthony Avedissian is a Partner at Seed Club Ventures, a $25 million Venture DAO investing in early-stage projects building infrastructure and applications that improve decentralized coordination. Seed Club Ventures was launched in partnership with Seed Club, the leading accelerator for builders at the intersection of crypto, culture, and community…
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Simiao Li - Maverick Crypto and the China perspective
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Simiao Li is the Founder and CIO of Maverick Crypto. Maverick Crypto is a crypto native research and investment platform focused on advancing "ultra-liquid crypto Capitalism". Simiao was previously an Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates and has experience investing across macro, growth equities, and crypto. Simiao graduated from Yale whe…
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James Hutchins - North Island and 2023 Themes
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James is the co-founder and Managing Partner at North Island Ventures, a crypto-focused investment firm founded in 2020. James leads the firm’s research efforts, and is passionate about leveraging data to uncover new trends, inform investment decisions, and support portfolio companies. James has been a full-time crypto investor since 2018, and was …
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Greg d’Incelli - Scenius and the FTX impact on allocator appetite
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Gregory d’Incelli is the co-founder of Scenius Capital. Scenius is a digital assets and blockchain technology investment firm focused on providing sophisticated investors curated access to best-in-class opportunities via portfolio funds, co-investment and direct investment. Scenius manages a hedge fund of funds and is launching a venture fund of fu…
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Amit Mukherjee - Chainforest: Community and Capital
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Amit Mukherjee is the founder of Chainforest. Chainforest is a venture DAO that invests primarily at the pre-seed stage into web3 founders. Chainforest has a unique structure from other venture DAOs - it curates a small, selective community, who have the opportunity to support the DAO and its investing process in exchange for a tokenized interest i…
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Brett Palatiello - Bringing Nuance to Decentralization
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Brett Palatiello is a partner and head of blockchain at Interplay. Interplay is a platform that supports founders in numerous ways, including VC capital, mentorship, services and education. Prior to joining Interplay, Brett was the Head of Systematic Macro & Equities at Ridgewood Analytica where he provided research and consulting services to hedge…
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Nihar Shah and Lucas Baker - Research at Jump Crypto
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Nihar Shah and Lucas Baker are researchers and investors at Jump Crypto, the crypto division of Jump Trading Group, a research-driven quantitative trading firm. Jump Crypto is committed to building and standing up critical infrastructure needed to catalyze the growth of the crypto ecosystem. They study questions regarding protocol and mechanism des…
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Adam Struck - Early Stage Ninjas at Struck Crypto
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Adam Struck is the Founder and Managing Partner at Struck Crypto. Adam is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Struck Capital as well as the CEO of Struck Studio. Struck Crypto is a permanent capital evergreen vehicle with over $100M AUM and has been investing in the blockchain space since 2017. The firm was the first ever investor in leading d…
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Jason Hitchcock - DeFi with Four Moons Capital
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Jason Hitchcock is the founder and General Partner of 4 Moons, a firm that invests in web3 assets and advises hedge funds on liquid token strategies. Prior to his move into crypto, Jason spent a decade at early stage startups across gaming, adtech, social, and e-commerce. Jason was part of the founding team of Bebo, a live streaming app which was a…
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Brooke Pollack - Allocating to Funds with a Crypto Native Lens
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Today our guest is Brooke Pollack, the Founder & Managing Partner of Hutt Capital, a blockchain venture capital fund of funds platform. Prior to Hutt Capital, Brooke spent a decade investing across private fund, secondary and direct strategies with leading global investment firms. Most recently, he spent more than four years with Greenspring Associ…
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Yida Gao - Investing in Bear Markets with Shima Capital
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Today our guest is Yida Gao, founder of Shima Capital. Shima Capital is an early stage VC firm investing in disruptive crypto and Web3 companies. The fund has a strong roster of backers including Dragonfly Capital, Digital Currency Group, Bill Ackman and other strategic investors. Prior to Shima, Yida was a technology investor at New Enterprise Ass…
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Ali Hassan - Playing Offense with Unique Strategies
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Our guest today is Ali Hassan, Founding Partner at Perceptive Capital. Perceptive Capital is an actively managed investment fund that employs a discretionary, multi-strategy approach. The three main strategies are fundamental directional long, DeFi productivity, and venture. Prior to co-founding Perceptive Capital, Ali founded Crescent Crypto Asset…
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Ape/rture - On Pseudonyms and Pitch Deck Red Flags
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Our guest today is Ape/rture from Deus Ex Dao. Ape/rture is a data science enthusiast with a heart for building out innovative ideas. He has been active in the crypto space since 2017, with a focus on research, trading, educating, content creation and community building. He uses a combination of fundamental and technical analysis to analyze human p…
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Ken Li - Incubating Big Ideas at Binance Labs
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Our guest today is Ken Li, Investment Director at Binance Labs. Binance Labs is the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges with over $20bn average daily trading volume. Binance Labs is a chain-agnostic investor and incubator focused on supporting the broader crypto ecosystem by investing in, engag…
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David Gan - Emerging Markets and Emerging Managers
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Our guest today is David Gan, Founder and General Partner of OP Crypto. OP Crypto invests in digital assets out of two funds - the OP Venture Fund and OP Fund of Funds. Prior to founding OP Crypto in 2021, David served as a senior executive at crypto exchange Huobi Global where he managed their principal investment strategy, and also has experience…
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Stephen Chou - Missionary Mindsets and Customizable NFTs
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Our guest today is Stephen Chou, Principal at Translink Capital leading web3 and gaming investments. Translink is a traditional early-stage venture capital fund based in Palo Alto and has over $800 million in assets under management. Translink started investing in crypto in 2018 and was an early backer in Terra, Klaytn, Quantstamp, and Forte. Prior…
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Joshua Lim - Using Derivatives to Express Fundamental Trades
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Our guest today is Joshua Lim, Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. Genesis Trading is a digital currency prime brokerage that allows market participants to trade, borrow, lend and custody digital assets. Josh previously managed the spot and derivatives trading desk at Galaxy Digital and prior to that built the treasury and…
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Shiliang Tang - Frontier of Decentralized Derivatives Market Making
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Remember to rate, review and subscribe to the Podcast! Our guest today is Shiliang Tang, the Chief Investment Officer of LedgerPrime. LedgerPrime is a multi-strategy quant fund in digital assets. Shiliang spent most of his career as a quantitative trader on proprietary trading desks at UBS and Merrill Lynch, where he focused on equities and commodi…
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Cosmo Jiang - Bringing a Public Equities Approach to Web3 Investing
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Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! Today we flip the script and interview one of our co-hosts, Cosmo Jiang. Cosmo is currently a Deal Lead with GCR. He also serves in a strategy role with a stealth defi startup and is an active web3 investor personally. Over the last 7 years, Cosmo has been a Managing Director at Hitchwood Capital, a multi-bi…
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Miko Matsumura - First Checks and Finding Something "More Yourself"
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Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! Our guest today is Miko Matsumura, General Partner at Gumi Cryptos Capital - a blockchain focused early stage venture firm with offices in Silicon Valley and Japan. It was founded in 2018 and its debut fund returned >25x, with some early-stage investment home runs like Opensea, Yield Guild Games, Vega Protoc…
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Komorebi DAO with Manasi Vora and Medha Kothari
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Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! For the show today, we held a live interview in the Global coin research Discord. The GCR Discord Community hosts events such as live interviews with founders, learning workshops and provides access to the best deals in the crypto space. Join today at GCR.community For the show today, we are thrilled to have…
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Covid, NFTs and Newly Appointed Chairman Gary Gensler
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Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! For the show today, I'm thrilled to share with you a special replay of my interview with Commissioner Hester Peirce during the UPenn Blockchain conference. Hester Peirce is the Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, she oversees many of the crypto regulations and have been often dubbed as cr…
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Handao and the Korean NFT Ecosystem with Daniel Hwang
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-This podcast is sponsored by Global Coin Research. Global Coin Research is community of crypto readers, writers, and investors with direct access to high quality content and deals. Global Coin Research is doing media mining right now, and writers who write on GCR will earn 250 GCR when their articles are approved. Check it out on GlobalCoinResearc…
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Private Market Investing and Trading with Bobby Cho of CMS Holdings
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Building Communities and Investing with Peter Pan from 1kx
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Peter Pan joins us from 1kx. Peter shares his journey of how he broke his way into the crypto space, his learnings from building Metacartel and Venture DAO, his advice for community builders, and how 1kx thinks about investing in the space. Topics we've discussed include: - what do you spend most of y…
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Qiao Wang is a Partner at The Defi Alliance. Qiao previously started building a crypto asset information platform at Messari to educate the general public and to assist investors in making better decisions. He is a former quant trader who turned over trillions of dollars worth of equities and futures.…
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The Future of DAOs with Aaron Wright from the LAO
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For the show today, I'm thrilled to welcome Aaron Wright, co-founder of OpenLaw. OpenLaw conceived LAO and Flamingo DAO, which are the most successful DAOs in the crypto space today. In our conversation, Aaron shares the new Neptune DAO that was just launched this week, the current challenges and opportunities with DAOS, and how he believes DAOs wi…
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Investing Pseudonymously with Maple Leaf Capital
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Join our telegram community and share your favorite crypto art! https://t.me/joinchat/ROZYvMlDh-LCrodz Maple leaf Capital is an anonymous account that is dedicated to investing and building into Web3. In our conversation, we talk about how Maple thinks about defi investing, his experience and criteria for evaluating projects from both East and West…
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The Crypto Trading Thought Process with Jeff Tang
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Join our telegram community and share your favorite crypto art! https://t.me/joinchat/ROZYvMlDh-LCrodz Jeff started his high-frequency trading career in 2009 at Getco in Chicago and Singapore where he traded on electronic exchanges in all three major time zones, all four asset classes (equities, fixed income, commodities and FX) and three instrumen…
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Everything You Need to Know about Cryptoart with Richard Chen of 1Confirmation
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Join our telegram community and share your favorite crypto art! https://t.me/joinchat/ROZYvMlDh-LCrodz Richard Chen is a partner at 1Confirmation. Richard Chen is also the creator of Cryptoart.io and an avid crypto art collector. In our conversation, Richard shares how he believes NFT will bring mass adoption to the blockchain, how Richard thinks a…
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How Parafi Thinks about Investing and Defi with Santiago R Santos
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Join our Telegram group and chat about crypto investing! https://t.me/joinchat/H7EaO8wnjvzCrodz Topics we've discussed include: 1) What's Parafi's portfolio allocation right now? 2) How does Parafi invest in defi in real time data? 3) Santiago's advice to think about building for institutions vs crypt…
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Top Advice for Founders When Fundraising, Building and Growing with Stani Kulechov of Aave
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Stani Kulechov is the CEO of Aave and also an active angel investor. We talk about how Stani started angel investing, his advice for founders on how to fundraise and hire, how to avoid early startup mistakes, how to inspire teams and where he thinks the crypto space is going. Topics we've discussed in…
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Bringing Opportunities in Crypto Beyond Korea with Baek Kim of Hashed
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Baek Kim is the head of US at Hashed. We talk about how Hashed is pushing in the forefront of blockchain, crypto and fintech in Asia, Hashed's investment strategy for their new LP fund, the type of entrepreneurs they look for in the space and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How is Hashed thinking about crypto, fintech and blockchain? 2) Wh…
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Designing and Investing in Web3 with Ian Lee and Reuben Bramanathan of IDEO
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Ian Lee and Reuben Bramanathan are both part of IDEO Colab Ventures. Ian is the managing director at IDEO Colab Ventures and has been there since 2017, and Reuben recently joined IDEO as a general partner in January and has previously been active in the crypto space as an advisor and angel investor. W…
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Guide to Investing in Algo Stablecoins and CF Market Makers with Dmitriy Berenzon of Bollinger Investment Group
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Thank you :) Dmitriy Berenzon is a research partner at Bollinger Investment Group. He shares his journey as an investor, his learnings from his previous time at Coinfund. We also hear tips from Dmitriy for entrepreneurs to avoid making costly decisions, thoughts on the algorithmic stablecoins and cons…
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How to Angel invest as an Operator with Regan Bozman and Mike Zajko from FreeCo
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! For the show today, Regan Bozman and Mike Zajko from FreeCo, (short for Free company) came on to discuss how FreeCo came about, how to angel invest and get crypto founders to take small checks, Mike and Regan's growth journey as angel investors and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How did Mike…
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Growth of Polkadot and Near Developers, Electric Capital's Data Driven Approach to Investing with Maria Shen
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Maria Shen is a partner at Electric Capital. Maria shares the top takeaways from Electric Capital's 2020 Developer Ecosystem Report, highlights the biggest surprises to her from the report, Electric Capital's investment thesis, how she uses her past experience as an entrepreneur to make investment dec…
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Robot Venture Investments, Aave's Impressive Growth and Stablecoins with Tarun Chitra
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Tarun Chitra is a partner at Robot Ventures. Tarun talks about how Robot Ventures came about, his thoughts on how Aave achieved its astronomical growth by identifying a new market of users, what Tarun looks for in an entrepreneur, along with stablecoins, Compound chain and more. Topics we've discussed…
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Crypto Valuations and Returns, Slow Ventures' Thesis and VC Attitudes with Jill Carlson
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Jill Carlson is an investor at Slow Ventures. Jill shares Slow Venture's investment approach, her thesis in crypto, why traditional venture investors are slow to coming into the space and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) What are the top attributes Jill looks for in an entrepreneur? 2) How doe…
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Learnings from Benchmark, Community Product Fit and Great Investor Profile with Alok Vasudev of Standard Crypto VC
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Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Alok Vasudev is the founding partner of Standard Crypto VC. Alok shares with us his time at Benchmark and how the investment frameworks and learnings apply in crypto, Standard crypto's portfolio and investment approach, the attributes of a great investor vs a good investor in the space and more. Topic…
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