#89 - AVICHAL GARG
POD OF JAKE
English - December 17, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 90.7 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Avichal is a co-founder and partner on the investment team at Electric Capital, an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. Before starting Electric Capital, Avichal was a serial entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook. He also served as a part-time partner at YCombinator and has been a successful VC and crypto investor for many years. Follow Avichal on Twitter @avichal and learn more about his firm at electriccapital.com.
[2:18] - How Avichal's childhood primed him to become a successful serial software entrepreneur
[7:24] - Why crypto poses disruption for Web 2.0 incumbents
[13:39] - Predicting how Facebook and Google will transition into the Web 3.0 future
[22:08] - Takeaways from working with world-changing founders like Zuckerberg & Page
[29:36] - Transforming education through online learning
[37:40] - Measuring where we are in crypto's adoption lifecycle
[44:46] - Weighing crypto investments against their probabilities of success
[50:38] - Evaluating token economics for crypto investments
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