Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLiquid 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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Room40 - Wes Tang-Wymer
March 27, 2024 10:41 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBWes 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 growth stage companies in the fintech, transportation, and logistics sectors. Before SoftBank, he was an equities investment analyst at Point72. W...
M31 – David Attermann
February 26, 2024 08:06 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBDavid 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 traditional finance, advising and investing in technology companies. —– This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research (“GCR”) is a commu...
Theia - a Private Equity Approach to Digital Assets
February 08, 2024 16:39 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBTheia 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in History from Yale University. Prior to founding Theia, Felipe was a Vice President on the...
Chris Abiaad - Product Manager’s Lens on Investing
December 07, 2023 10:53 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBChris 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 Tech. He's since built a vast knowledge base of the markets and a solid investment track record, which has led him to the launch of Frens Capital ...
James Ho - The Superpower of Modularity
November 09, 2023 16:56 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBJames 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 Altimeter, James was a Vice President at D. E. Shaw, a $50 billion global multi-strategy hedge fund, covering technology, payments and fintech in the ...
Diogenes Casares - Special Situations Investing in Crypto
July 26, 2023 14:16 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBDiogenes 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 investment DAO where the best web3 deals are sourced by community members for community members. This discussion was recorded in...
Stephen McKeon - Consumer Investing in Crypto
June 15, 2023 13:41 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBStephen 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 Cambridge University, and UC Berkeley. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Global Coin Research ("GCR") is a community-first researc...
Eric Chen - Injective is Building for DeFi
May 31, 2023 12:52 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBEric 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 hedge funds, venture capitals and blockchain projects, including but not limited to Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban, Hashed and Binance. ----- This e...
Sonya Kim - Progrmd for Fundamental Investing
May 16, 2023 12:56 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBSonya 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. Sonya began her career as an Investment Risk Analyst at Baillie Gifford, a global growth investor notable for its successful implementation of the l...
Peter Pan - Summoning Hydra Ventures
May 01, 2023 12:13 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBPeter 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 ecosystem growth, and a co-founder of MetaCartel Ventures, Ethereum’s earliest investment DAO investing in early stage crypto projects. ----- ...
Anthony Avedissian - DAO Investing with Seed Club Ventures
March 22, 2023 12:16 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBAnthony 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. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Skolem Technologies provides institutional grade data and trade execution services f...
Simiao Li - Maverick Crypto and the China perspective
March 06, 2023 13:55 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBSimiao 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 where he dual-majored in Economics and Political Science. ----- This episode is brought to you by: Skolem Technologies provides i...
James Hutchins - North Island and 2023 Themes
January 17, 2023 21:19 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBJames 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 previously Head of Research at Coatue Management. James holds an AB in Economics from Harvard. ----- This episode is brought to you b...
Greg d’Incelli - Scenius and the FTX impact on allocator appetite
December 02, 2022 16:44 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBGregory 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 funds. Greg is a former lawyer and litigator who turned a passion for digital assets into a career as a crypto fund manager. Greg has degrees from D...
Amit Mukherjee - Chainforest: Community and Capital
October 17, 2022 17:53 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBAmit 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 in the fund. Amit also serves as Co-Treasury Lead at Friends With Benefits and previously, Amit was a Partner at the venture capital firm NEA. Ami...
Brett Palatiello - Bringing Nuance to Decentralization
October 06, 2022 08:47 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBBrett 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 funds, wealth managers, and family offices. Before that, Brett was a partner and portfolio manager at Spring Valley Asset Management where he ma...
Nihar Shah and Lucas Baker - Research at Jump Crypto
September 21, 2022 05:23 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBNihar 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 design, tokenomics, stablecoins, optimal governance, core blockchain infrastructure, and the financial stability of crypto ecosystems. Lucas previou...
Adam Struck - Early Stage Ninjas at Struck Crypto
September 11, 2022 02:56 - 2 minutes - 3.03 MBAdam 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 deals such as Mythical Games and Zero Hash. The firm was also an early backer of leading Layer-1s in the space such as Algorand and Hashgraph, as w...
Jason Hitchcock - DeFi with Four Moons Capital
August 11, 2022 08:48 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBJason 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 acquired by Twitch. While at Twitch, Jason led fandom strategy for their original content programs. Jason’s been investing in crypto since 2016 an...
Brooke Pollack - Allocating to Funds with a Crypto Native Lens
July 26, 2022 17:31 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBToday 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 Associates, a venture capital platform with over $17 billion assets under management, where he spearheaded their blockchain and crypto efforts. Earlier ...
Yida Gao - Investing in Bear Markets with Shima Capital
July 13, 2022 19:54 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBToday 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 Associates and an M&A banker at Morgan Stanley. Yida also teaches Crypto Finance every spring semester at MIT. He graduated from MIT with a degree in...
Ali Hassan - Playing Offense with Unique Strategies
July 07, 2022 09:25 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBOur 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 Management and prior to that was a venture investor at Fairview Capital. Ali started his career at Goldman trading equities and options by day...
Andrew Woodruff - Sustainable, Differentiated Competitive Moats
June 21, 2022 02:53Our guest today is Andrew Woodruff, co-founder, PM & CIO of Black Lotus Capital. Black Lotus is a long / short fundamental long-term-oriented digital assets hedge fund. Black Lotus is focused primarily on liquid tokens that have a clear path to widespread adoption, sustainable differentiated competitive moats, and token value capture. Prior to co-founding Black Lotus, Andrew was a founding member of the specialized research team at a multi-billion dollar long / short hedge fund, where he he...
Ape/rture - On Pseudonyms and Pitch Deck Red Flags
June 07, 2022 07:12 - 44 minutes - 81.4 MBOur 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 psychology and market action. Ape/rture is currently a Council member at Deus Ex DAO, a decentralized investment community, angel syndicate and ser...
Ken Li - Incubating Big Ideas at Binance Labs
June 02, 2022 20:16 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBOur 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, engaging with and supporting the projects and entrepreneurs that have the greatest potential to shape the future of the decentralized web. Prior to jo...
David Gan - Emerging Markets and Emerging Managers
May 27, 2022 02:24 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBOur 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 at qiming Venture Partners and Morgan Stanley China. David received recognition for Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019. ----- This episode...
Stephen Chou - Missionary Mindsets and Customizable NFTs
May 03, 2022 01:33 - 37 minutes - 52 MBOur 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 to crypto investing at Translink, Stephen was an investment banker at Credit Suisse and part of the investment team at Cisco Investments. ----- ...
Joshua Lim - Using Derivatives to Express Fundamental Trades
April 25, 2022 20:34 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBOur 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 OTC trading desk at Circle. Before crypto, Josh traded equity options at Goldman Sachs and UBS. Josh received his B.S. in Mathematics and Comput...
Shiliang Tang - Frontier of Decentralized Derivatives Market Making
April 18, 2022 17:22 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBRemember 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 commodities algorithmic and volatility trading. Prior to LedgerPrime, Shiliang was also a co-founder of global fintech startup WorldCover. Shilian...
Cosmo Jiang - Bringing a Public Equities Approach to Web3 Investing
April 08, 2022 18:20 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBRemember 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-billion dollar public equities hedge fund, where we has responsible for the consumer, internet and media investments. Prior to that, he also sp...
Miko Matsumura - First Checks and Finding Something "More Yourself"
April 01, 2022 21:47 - 41 minutes - 76 MBRemember 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 Protocol, Celsius Network, 1Inch and more. Gumi Cryptos Capital just announced their second fund with $110mm of capital commitments. Miko is also ...
Komorebi DAO with Manasi Vora and Medha Kothari
August 03, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBRemember 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 Manasi and Medha of Komorebi DAO. Manasi is the VP of Strategy and Ops at Skynet Labs. Prior to this role, Manasi conducted research at...
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Covid, NFTs and Newly Appointed Chairman Gary Gensler
May 03, 2021 21:44 - 55 minutes - 42.7 MBRemember 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 cryptomom. In our conversation, we talk about the latest developments with the SEC around the crypto framework, how Covid affected the SEC, the ...
Handao and the Korean NFT Ecosystem with Daniel Hwang
April 23, 2021 15:51 - 44 minutes - 26 MB-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 GlobalCoinResearch.com -Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Daniel Hwang does protocol research and governance at Stakefish. He is also a foundin...
Private Market Investing and Trading with Bobby Cho of CMS Holdings
April 17, 2021 01:28 - 41 minutes - 22.8 MBThis podcast is sponsored by Global Coin Research. Global Coin Research is a 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 GlobalCoinResearch.com Bobby Cho joins us as a Partner at CMS Holdings. CMS is a principal investment firm focused on crypto assets. In our conversation, Bobby ...
Building Communities and Investing with Peter Pan from 1kx
April 02, 2021 14:28 - 47 minutes - 26.3 MBPlease 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 your time on at 1kx? - you had a pretty atypical investor journey, what are the top 3 learnings that helped you become a better investor f...
The Defi Alliance with Qiao Wang
March 26, 2021 17:53 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBPlease 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. In this episode, I talk to Qiao about the thesis and thought behind the creation of the Defi Alliance, the lessons of running an accelerator, Q...
The Future of DAOs with Aaron Wright from the LAO
March 19, 2021 16:15 - 34 minutes - 25.8 MBFor 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 will take over Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Other topics we've discussed: 1) LAO's new DAO that was just launched this week- NeptuneDAO 2) Why...
Investing Pseudonymously with Maple Leaf Capital
March 12, 2021 06:00 - 51 minutes - 42.6 MBJoin 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, his advice for founders on token distribution and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How Maple Leaf Capital (MLC) stays plugged int...
The Crypto Trading Thought Process with Jeff Tang
March 05, 2021 17:07 - 50 minutes - 38.5 MBJoin 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 instrument types (cash, futures, and options). He then started his own trading firm Serenity Capital with some friends that focused on Asian traditiona...
Everything You Need to Know about Cryptoart with Richard Chen of 1Confirmation
February 27, 2021 21:45 - 43 minutes - 33 MBJoin 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 about buying and collecting Crypto art, how to put a value on these crypto art NFTs and how crypto funds are increasingly looking at cryptoart. ...
How Parafi Thinks about Investing and Defi with Santiago R Santos
February 12, 2021 16:44 - 52 minutes - 39 MBPlease 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 crypto native whales? 4) Opportunities and innovations for where the new inflow of institutional money is going? 5) The disconnec...
Top Advice for Founders When Fundraising, Building and Growing with Stani Kulechov of Aave
February 05, 2021 06:00 - 53 minutes - 40.1 MBPlease 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 include: 1) How did Stani started investing? 2) How should founders think about who to have on the cap table when fundraising? 3) What co...
Bringing Opportunities in Crypto Beyond Korea with Baek Kim of Hashed
January 29, 2021 16:02 - 53 minutes - 46 MBBaek 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) Where is the current investment opportunities in Korea and Asia? 3) How does Hashed get involved in its crypto investments? 4) What are so...
Designing and Investing in Web3 with Ian Lee and Reuben Bramanathan of IDEO
January 22, 2021 06:00 - 58 minutes - 45.8 MBPlease 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. We talk about IDEO Colab Ventures' founding story, the team's investment style, IDEO's mission to redesign and rethink web3 with founders, Ian ...
Guide to Investing in Algo Stablecoins and CF Market Makers with Dmitriy Berenzon of Bollinger Investment Group
January 15, 2021 06:00 - 54 minutes - 44.1 MBPlease 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 constant function market makers, and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How to do diligence on a project and evaluate their discord chann...
Guide to Investing in Algo Stablecoins and CF Market Makers with Dmitry Berenzon of Bollinger Capital
January 15, 2021 06:00 - 54 minutes - 44.1 MBPlease remember to rate and review our podcast! Thank you :) Dmitry Berenzon is a research partner at Bollinger Capital. He shares his journey as an investor, his learnings from his previous time at Coinfund, tips from Dmitry for entrepreneurs to avoid making costly decisions, thoughts on the algorithmic stablecoins and constant function market makers. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How to do diligence on a project and evaluate their discord channels and community? 2) Why fintec...
How to Angel invest as an Operator with Regan Bozman and Mike Zajko from FreeCo
January 08, 2021 15:19 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBPlease 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 and Regan make their first investment? 2) How can operators or individuals make angel investments in crypto? 3) What is FreeCo and how ...
Growth of Polkadot and Near Developers, Electric Capital's Data Driven Approach to Investing with Maria Shen
December 25, 2020 06:30 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBPlease 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 decisions and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How does Maria identify promising entrepreneurs based on her past experience as an entre...
Robot Venture Investments, Aave's Impressive Growth and Stablecoins with Tarun Chitra
December 19, 2020 00:35 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBPlease 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 include: 1) How did Tarun get involved in investing and joining Robot Ventures? 2) How does Tarun thinks about the size of the stablecoin...