Bitcoin, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bitcoin comes up
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 25:56 Harry Stebbings The network effect of Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 2:35 Olaf Carlson Wee Yeah, so what I mean by that is actually that the first investment I made in my entire life was Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:33 Olaf Carlson Wee I mean, just for perspective, Bitcoin will very regularly have over one billion USD trading volume a day.
- ▶ 9:35 Olaf Carlson Wee Created what is pretty much inarguably the most important protocol since Bitcoin.
- ▶ 18:24 Olaf Carlson Wee You know, no one owns Bitcoin by Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund
- ▶ 21:49 Elizabeth Yin And maybe it's not on Bitcoin, but maybe it's on another token or so, that you will see fundraisers done differently in 10 years.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 23:14 Alex Rampell It was one of the biggest banks in North America, and he said, you know what, I don't like Bitcoin, but I like 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 Alex Rampell There can only be twenty one million domains on earth to pick a random number that has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but there can only be twenty one million domains on earth.
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 8:59 Mike Jones So if you are sitting on a 100,000 tokens from some cryptocurrency company, and those tokens could be Ethereum or Bitcoin or, you know, a startup where you participate in the ICO and you have those tokens, you 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Mike Jones I think that if we think that the first iteration of a value transfer was through Bitcoin, and maybe we can think about Ethereum as almost like an application layer, that right now the killer app
- ▶ 25:24 Harry Stebbings Uh, Bitcoin, 4000 dollars this time next year. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Popular way to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings So how did you get started in Bitcoin so early, and what gave you the confidence to pursue a startup idea in such a small niche at the time? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings But I want to start then, because for many years we've had the excitement and volatility around Bitcoin, but more recently there's been a lot of focus around Ethereum coming into the media spotlight. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 Brian Armstrong It explains Bitcoin, it explains Ethereum, the price, you know, changes that you've seen over time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:03 Harry Stebbings I am interested with the, um, when we kind of analyze, as we said that we compare Bitcoin versus Ethereum, we discuss the rise of ICOs with such massive growth in crypto. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:35 Harry Stebbings For anyone looking to scale the learning curve on Bitcoin blockchain crypto as a meta category, what would you advise them to read, listen to, watch content-wise?
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 10:31 Kevin Rose I look for not just clone products, but a true unique advantage, meaning that like, you know, I'm not going to buy into a cryptocurrency that is just a somewhat slightly version or somewhat slightly tweaked version of Bitcoin.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- ▶ 18:35 Harry Stebbings What do you make then of the rise of thematic investing, where it is very much, uh, a very, um, kind of portfolio undiverse approach, where you purely focus on consumer, enterprise SaaS, Bitcoin, whatever the theme, name the theme.
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 5:03 Harry Stebbings Do you agree with the thesis that we're now kind of at the very frontiers of a whole range of new breakthrough technologies, be it VR, AR, Bitcoin,
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 16:38 Naval Ravikant If you look at how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are going to play out, they'll probably do away with a lot of the extraneous financial infrastructure that we have.
- ▶ 25:04 Naval Ravikant And that's the cryptocurrency investments, things like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Monero, et cetera.