Wall Street

“One of the things is that I don't think that any of the candidates for Satoshi is the real candidate, because there's a remark that Satoshi made in one of his things where he, rather than saying six degrees of separation, like in terms of social network, he sa…”

“We actually control exits as well as, you know, incorporation. We wouldn't have to, you know, like do an exit on Wall Street necessarily. You would, This would be liquid permanently through the mechanism of the app coin.”

“Wall Street, of course, is a, you know, huge, amorphous mass of people but if you were to kind of collectivize the thinking, I think they're possibly on the border of, they're not at the oh fuck moment... Ultimately, I think that they're at, The third stage. I…”

“The SEC is what economists call a captured regulator. You know, society sets up regulators to protect us from certain industries, but it's a standard feature of regulations, since the first regulator, the Interstate Commerce Commission, that they become captur…”

“I think the London Financial Centre versus tech are two separate things apart from where fintech is involved. They seem like two very different industries, unlike Wall Street where a lot of investment bankers are active in investing in tech startups.”

“And what Apple is doing is, like, they are at absolute peak execution of what they're doing. At the scale they're doing it, at the quality that they're doing it, and at the changes, each iteration that, that they're doing. And what's fascinating, like, I don't…”

“The question assumes I want to fix it. Like, I don't think I want to fix it, because that's a big part of the opportunity.”

“Those three ideas, frustration with Wall Street, distrust of institutions, and for lack of a better term, fanger, gave crypto the opening it needed to get started.”

“And the amazing thing about a digital twin is you can You can do all kinds of experiments, and you can ask all kinds of questions that would be dangerous or impossible to ask or perform in reality and then you can change your actions based on the answers to th…”

“The consensus for the banks is three hundred and sixty billion dollars of spend next year across all of them.”

“When I first joined Shopify in 2019, I think it was among the highest, most shorted stocks on Wall Street. Because people made a category mistake about Shopify.”