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#20 Rennick Palley: Founder of Stratos Technologies on Incentive Structures in Crypto
Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors
English - February 23, 2021 20:00 - 38 minutesEntrepreneurship Business Education Self-Improvement Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
βIf there's one innovation in crypto, it's incentive structures that actually drive people to do things that benefit the whole. That is so huge. But these automated market makers create liquidity for the long tail. And so if everything is suddenly liquid, what happens there? What are the emergent results?β β Rennick Palley
Rennick Palley is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Stratos Technologies. Prior to founding Stratos, Rennick worked as a Research Associate at Sanders Capital, which manages over $40 billion in global equities. To date, Stratos Technologies has made 16 investments with an aggregate transaction value of over $250 million into companies like Rezi, Tala, Dave, Compound Finance, and Clearbanc.
In this second interview, Rennick and I zoom way out to discuss everything from the recent boom in SPACs to the world of DeFi protocols, and how crypto gets incentive structures right. For more, listen to the first part of this interview in Episode 19 of Outliers with Daniel Scrivner. In that episode we discuss the war of growth vs. value investing, the concept of reflexivity, and Stratos' approach to investing across the capital structure in early-stage technology companies.
Chapters in this interview:
00:01:36 β Whatβs next for Stratos Technologies
00:03:16 β Why SPACs are the activist investing tool of the future
00:08:24 β What the youngest generation of investors want to invest in
00:12:30 β How SPACs can play by different rules when telling their story
00:19:48 β Exploring crypto and protocols built on top of Ethereum
00:32:52 β How Stratos helps DeFi protocols launch new markets
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βIf there's one innovation in crypto, it's incentive structures that actually drive people to do things that benefit the whole. That is so huge. But these automated market makers create liquidity for the long tail. And so if everything is suddenly liquid, what happens there? What are the emergent results?β β Rennick Palley
Rennick Palley is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Stratos Technologies. Prior to founding Stratos, Rennick worked as a Research Associate at Sanders Capital, which manages over $40 billion in global equities. To date, Stratos Technologies has made 16 investments with an aggregate transaction value of over $250 million into companies like Rezi, Tala, Dave, Compound Finance, and Clearbanc.
In this second interview, Rennick and I zoom way out to discuss everything from the recent boom in SPACs to the world of DeFi protocols, and how crypto gets incentive structures right. For more, listen to the first part of this interview in Episode 19 of Outliers with Daniel Scrivner. In that episode we discuss the war of growth vs. value investing, the concept of reflexivity, and Stratos' approach to investing across the capital structure in early-stage technology companies.
Chapters in this interview:
00:01:36 β Whatβs next for Stratos Technologies
00:03:16 β Why SPACs are the activist investing tool of the future
00:08:24 β What the youngest generation of investors want to invest in
00:12:30 β How SPACs can play by different rules when telling their story
00:19:48 β Exploring crypto and protocols built on top of Ethereum
00:32:52 β How Stratos helps DeFi protocols launch new markets
Β
Sign up here for Outliers Weekly, our Sunday newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week.
Follow Outliers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyoutliers.
If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.