E44: Jordi Alexander: The Man Who Stayed Awake for $24 Million!

When Shift Happens Podcast

Jordi Alexander is a father, thinker and former pro poker player who became one of the brightest minds and most respected thought leaders in the crypto space.

Jordi is also the founder & CIO at Selini Capital, one of the most successful market-making and Venture Capital firms in the web3 industry.

In this episode we talk about:

- The dating game and how it relates to game theory

- Jordi’s tough childhood

- Depression and getting out of the vicious cycle

- How ego is the biggest obstacle to success

- The meaning of life

- Imposter syndrome

- Jordi’s craziest poker story

- Addictions and gambling

- The trade: 1M dollar if you can stay awake for 5 days

- Crypto, Dogecoin and Solana

- How Jordi values his time at $50k per conversion

- How AI could threaten the human species

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Chapters:

00:00 Meet Jordi

01:24 Relationship and datings

06:56 Game theorie

09:54 Models & bottles

10:52 Prime age

20:25 The wake-up call

29:21 Talking about ego

33:55 Meaning of life

43:53 Living US to Cyprus

47:33 Imposter syndrome

49:58 Father relationship

52:37 Poker journey

01:05:06 From poker to trading

01:11:35 The Secret trade

01:22:03 How much is your time worth?

01:24:15 Managing big fortunes

01:28:51 Crypto & solana

01:30:47 Value of money

01:45:14 The evolution of Human species and AI Follow Jordi

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