Ethereum
also referred to as: ethereum blockchain · ethereum network
26 statements across 17 episodes · 10 bullish · 9 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Aug 4, 2017 by Brian Armstrong · said 151 times in 34 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (60), Linda Xie (12), Nick Tomaino (10), Avichal Garg (9), Olaf Carlson Wee (7), Mike Jones (7), Geoff Lewis (6), Brian Armstrong (6)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 33 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode
- Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 32 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 33 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
- 20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- 20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- 20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 42 mentions in 4 episodes 11 per episode
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ethereum, oldest first
Aug 4, 2017 neutral
Armstrong: Scaling YouTube or Twitter was harder than scaling Bitcoin or Ethereum
“I don't think, like, Bitcoin or Ethereum is on the order of magnitude of that heart of a problem. Like, I think scaling YouTube was probably way harder, or scaling Twitter or something like that was probably way harder than the kind of things we need to do to …”
Aug 4, 2017 bullish
Armstrong: Coinbase's Toshi is the Netscape moment for digital currency
“So that's what we're doing with Toshi, which is really kind of like a browser for the Ethereum network. It's kind of like the Netscape moment, if you will, for digital currency, and that we've made it dramatically easier for people to use digital currency apps…”
Aug 4, 2017 negative
Armstrong: Bitcoin community is ideological; Ethereum community is pragmatic technologists
“The Bitcoin group, I would say they had a lot of people join early on that were kind of more ideologically motivated or perhaps pedantic... And the Ethereum community I would describe as more like technologists or people who just want to focus on the underlyin…”
Aug 4, 2017 bullish
Armstrong: Digital currencies will reach Visa-level transaction throughput
“I think there's nothing preventing digital currency from getting to Visa level. If today Ethereum can do somewhere between 10 and 25 transactions a second, that's really only two or three orders of magnitude away from Visa scale.”
Aug 28, 2017 bullish
Science Blockchain token holders directly receive tokens from incubated startups
“If you're a qualified US investor, and you happen to own or buy one of our tokens, and you have it then sitting in your, you know, Ethereum qualified wallet, what that means is over time, as we incubate businesses, and if those businesses also run their own to…”
Sep 15, 2017 bearish
Dec 11, 2017 bullish
Carlson-Wee: Ethereum is the most important protocol since Bitcoin
“So for example, if you look at Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, he was 19 and a Russian Canadian who really didn't have ties to traditional venture networks. And Created what is pretty much inarguably the most important protocol since Bitcoin.”
Jul 30, 2018 negative
Oct 22, 2018 negative
Xie: Utility token value does not scale with platform popularity
“When you have things like decentralized exchange that can kind of like quickly exchange these tokens from a liquid coin like Ethereum to this utility token that people are not going to want to hold on to these tokens at all. It's kind of, you just only need to…”
Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 positive
Oct 22, 2018 bearish
Xie: Developers will abandon Ethereum for alternatives if scaling fails
“And so there's all kinds of different solutions here that people are working on, but I really think that if Ethereum can't get some strong progress in these scaling solutions, that people are going to start moving to different smart contracts platforms”
Feb 4, 2019 bearish
Feb 11, 2022 bearish
Levie: Crypto networks plateau because late entrants get diminishing upside
“At some point in a crypto network so far, at least what we've seen, maybe other than Bitcoin and Ethereum and a few others, is you see a plateau where once you have that asset reach a certain value, future participants don't perceive as much upside as the earl…”
Feb 14, 2022 positive
Apr 11, 2022 bullish
Garg: Ethereum could become a neutral $1T GDP digital settlement layer
“Creates this opportunity for a third system, right? An incredibly neutral third system, which might be Ethereum, which effectively starts to behave like a digital economy and a digital settlement layer for all the transactions that need to exist in a third pla…”
Jul 22, 2022 bearish
Jul 22, 2022 neutral
Oct 5, 2022
Oct 5, 2022
Jan 8, 2024 bullish
Jan 8, 2024 positive
May 6, 2024
Sarah Tavel names passing on Ethereum as her biggest investment miss
“Without question, Ethereum. I, you weren't expecting that. I can see, you know, what, well, Ethereum, I mean, I remember I was at Greylock. And the ICO had just happened, I believe, or just closed. And I was reading more about what's possible with smart contra…”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Jan 6, 2025 neutral
Aug 22, 2026 bearish
Bitcoin Runs on Greed While Solana and Ethereum Show Long-Term Potential
“And that greed element of blockchain, which is exactly what the Bitcoin thing is all about, in my opinion, is about greed, bringing down the, in the whole blockchain thing. While Solana and Ethereum, they're looking like they have a long-term potential.”