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The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:09:03 Jerry Murdock While Solana and, and, and, and Ethereum, they're, they're looking like they have a long-term potential.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Paul Erlang Right now it's mostly on-chain assets, meaning like on-chain native assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, attention-based assets, et cetera.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:21 Mike Maples So when I think about the way venture capital has thought about crypto, most of the really smartest people I know have been focused on Ethereum and Solana.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:26 David Frankel 2015, Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:23 Alexis Ohanian It would be Ethereum at the, uh, I think it was the, it was the pre-token sale, the token sale for Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:28 Sarah Tavel Without question, Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:02 Chris Dixon That many people working on Ethereum that are, that are very, very smart, and they have people from all over the world, and they, and so I just think, I think this force of commu-, so blockchains are, blockchains are to centralize services…
- ▶ 36:56 Chris Dixon Ethereum has these series of community organized conferences.
- ▶ 1:05:42 Chris Dixon There was a growth, there was a, uh, you know, a venture fund and a seed fund and the, the, and, you know, part of our charter is we can invest in over the counter assets, uh, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, the, the market cap of all the crypto…
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:08 Harry Stebbings It's just like, if the majority of trades are in, like, you know, certain markets, be it Bitcoin, be it Ethereum, be it Solana, I presume a lion lion share, everyone sells trust, everyone sells peace of mind, you know.
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:27 Nick Tomaino Everything working on Solana is basically a copycat of what worked on Ethereum.
- ▶ 10:08 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, why does Solana get a lot of stick or criticism when Ethereum or Cosmos maybe doesn't? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:46 Nick Tomaino And, and the fact that right now, again, from my, I'm not deep in Solana like you are, but from my kind of Solana outsider perspective, it feels like everything, um, working on Solana is basically a copycat of what, what worked on Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:08 Harry Stebbings Like talent migration between Solana, Ethereum, AI.
- ▶ 50:40 Nick Tomaino And the magic moment that I think is, is, um, is pretty interesting and kind of crypto native is that any, uh, Ethereum address or Solana address or whatever you want to call it, uh, any crypto address can have a messaging component and… 3 times in the scene
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:48 Jeff Seibert He started and launched Alchemy, which was like an Ethereum dev platform, dev tool thing.
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:38 Nick Tomaino Buying, you know, like we bought a significant amount of Bitcoin and ETH,
- ▶ 27:28 Harry Stebbings You tweeted before when it comes to kind of performance of crypto investors that you should actually be asked the question and benchmarked against, do you outperform Bitcoin in Ethereum? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:45 Nick Tomaino They'll, some of them will just put it in, in Bitcoin and ETH, and maybe that will just work. 2 times in the scene
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:40 William Hockey A lot of what people like about Ethereum, right, is you can set it 24 seven, three 65, uh, you can set it at, like, relatively low cost, and so you can settle with all these intermediaries.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:29 Brian Armstrong The last thing I'll say is that I think being a crypto company actually helped us prepare a little bit for being a public company, because the whole time we were private, people were looking at the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum and things…
Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:12 Geoff Lewis We owned a lot of Bitcoin and Ethereum in several of our funds. 5 times in the scene
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:09 Harry Stebbings What happens to OpenSea in such volatile markets, both in terms of crypto and NFT, obviously, because the price of Ethereum dictates a lot of the transactions.
Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16 Kyle Samani I discovered Ethereum in March or so of, um, and, uh, started feeling around with it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:28 Kyle Samani However, the, the thing that's confusing about the crypto landscape in particular is that the largest assets by market cap, notably Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, et cetera, uh, are assets that don't really have an obvious DCF.
- ▶ 39:24 Kyle Samani Um, leverage of, comes into crypto markets in different ways, some of which is explicit, like, perpetual contracts, some of which is hidden, for example, all the CeFi lending, and some of which is harder to identify, for example, ETH being…
- ▶ 48:09 Harry Stebbings Why does Solana beat Ethereum? 6 times in the scene
Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 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
- ▶ 4:08 Avichal Garg We dabbled in some Bitcoin mining, and Ethereum mining, and played with Monero, and so in 2016, we were just spending a lot of our personal time there, and I left Facebook at the end of 2016, and Curtis, my co-founder at Electric, and…
- ▶ 10:23 Avichal Garg If you just think about token networks, for example, the infrastructure that you need to participate in anything, let's say beyond Bitcoin or Ethereum, which you could buy on Coinbase, is
- ▶ 20:51 Avichal Garg I mean, you just look at things like Ethereum, look at where the value capture has been in NFTs, look at the value capture that's happened in Bitcoin.
- ▶ 24:51 Avichal Garg Be the first couple million dollars of Ethereum or Solana or whatever into your marketplace.
- ▶ 45:34 Avichal Garg Is it possible that Ethereum is not just some sort of commodity like silver that's worth a trillion dollars one day? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 17:35 Geoff Lewis We did Bitcoin and Ethereum shortly after launching our first fund in 2019.
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
- ▶ 24:42 Aaron Levie And so 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…
- ▶ 26:08 Aaron Levie In the past year, we've had a sort of resurgence of Ethereum-based, you know, kind of blockchain-oriented, you know, development.
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?!
- ▶ 6:35 Devin Finzer Again, in the same way that, like, something like Bitcoin or Ethereum is a currency, and there have been many different digital currencies, but they sort of have those, like, you know, property rights associated with them that make them…
- ▶ 28:39 Devin Finzer So ENS names are like sort of the domain names of Ethereum world.
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 14:43 Mark Carney There are crypto assets, you know, many cases, Ethereum based that are enabling new types of transactions, that enablement, those smart contracts, that ownership, the portfolio opportunities, that's where the enormous value is.
20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- ▶ 10:18 Dylan Field You got, like, Vitalik, who created Ethereum.
20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- ▶ 20:18 Sam Lessin Ethereum cannot support anything of scale.
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
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Before Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG, and if that wasn't enough, Linda's also an advisor to ZeroX, the critical infrastructure layer in the emerging financial stack, built on a foundation of Ethereum token standards,…
- ▶ 19:57 Linda Xie And he's building this open decentralized exchange for Ethereum tokens. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:16 Harry Stebbings I am interested, you mentioned a buzzword there being Ethereum. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:48 Linda Xie Yeah, so the current, like, early Ethereum community is very loyal to Ethereum, and I think one thing that is the reason for it is that the creators of Ethereum, mainly Vitalik, has done a really good job in kind of shaping this community,… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:11 Linda Xie And so the idea is that 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…
- ▶ 39:02 Linda Xie There was some good statements from the top ranking SEC official, um, how Ether is not currently a security. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 27:22 Sarah Tavel We are playing in a space where there are a very small number of use cases that have been able to be built on top of any of the blockchains, you know, Ethereum being one of the key ones, you know, there's crypto kitties.
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
- ▶ 6:40 Avichal Garg There's the stuff that's already liquid, so there's the bitcoins and ethereums of the world, and then there are a number of early stage projects, and they may be liquid or they may be illiquid, but
- ▶ 10:19 Avichal Garg There are smart contracting platforms, things like Ethereum or Thunder.
- ▶ 27:36 Avichal Garg It's actually, a lot of it is online now, which is pretty great, and so there are some seminal things to read, like the Bitcoin white paper, the Ethereum white paper.
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
- ▶ 8:57 Adam Goldberg So, CryptoKitties alone clogged up the Ethereum blockchain.
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the element of scalability there, especially kind of with regards to the Ethereum and how many they can process.
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
- ▶ 24:02 Darian Shirazi I think Ethereum is super interesting. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 28:59 Anu Hariharan My personal view is I do think blockchain has the potential to have a really strong network effect because if you look at Bitcoin and Ethereum, you know, users get into these currencies more for a speculative use case, but the more…
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
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings In addition, Olaf's also been an active angel, with a portfolio including the likes of Robin Hood, Ethereum, and Numeri, just to name a few.
- ▶ 6:41 Olaf Carlson Wee Ethereum and other prominent cryptocurrencies are regularly in the hundreds of millions USD and trading volumes a day.
- ▶ 9:24 Olaf Carlson Wee 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.
- ▶ 13:10 Olaf Carlson Wee To determine, you know, precisely what should be the price of Ethereum or something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Olaf Carlson Wee Could also do it in a pretty simple way if the two tokens were already riding on top of one blockchain, like ERC-TV tokens on top of Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:16 Olaf Carlson Wee Our most recent public investment, I believe, was the ZeroX protocol, which is a decentralized exchange protocol that lives inside an Ethereum smart contract.
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
- ▶ 7:33 Mike Jones 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…
- ▶ 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 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:36 Mike Jones You know, transferring Ethereum between ICOs and securitizing your wallets through a protocol that you feel comfortable having a lot of value in is not easy.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 21:02 Mike Jones We don't have to buy it with Ethereum.
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.
- ▶ 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. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:50 Brian Armstrong So people are using the term ICO to mean an initial coin offering, and what that means is essentially creating a token on top of the Ethereum blockchain and selling it to try and raise money for your startup or project. 4 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
- ▶ 25:50 Brian Armstrong So that's what we're doing with Toshi, which is really kind of like a browser for the Ethereum network.
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
- ▶ 25:04 Naval Ravikant And that's the cryptocurrency investments, things like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Monero, et cetera.