Crypto Protocols

topic on 4 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes

the Y Combinator Startup Podcast Capital Allocators the a16z Podcast 20VC

9 statements about Crypto Protocols, every show

20VC Insight
Garg: Crypto startups need Discord governance and validators, not sales recruiting
“So I think crypto protocols and businesses need an entirely different kind of services layer. And so you don't need a board member that helps you figure out how to interview a VP of sales. You need people sitting in your discord helping you do distributed gove…”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 24:24 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
Xie: Permissionless NFT composability contrasts sharply with traditional closed intermediary systems
“It's really powerful when you can plug these NFTs into all these different crypto protocols, because in a traditional system, these middlemen aren't plugging themselves into all these other companies and middlemen. You can kind of freely do whatever you want w…”
Linda Xie Apr 15, 2021 ▶ 12:48 a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dixon: Crypto will reinvent Airbnb, WhatsApp, and Lyft by 2030
“Hospitality, services like Airbnb, messaging, things like WhatsApp, ride sharing, services like Lyft, you know, I think all of these, I believe we'll see over the next decade, all of these things kind of reinvented.”
Chris Dixon Aug 29, 2019 ▶ 12:36 Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
a16z Insight
Monegro: Crypto value accrues where service costs are highest
“Value will accrue to where there is the highest cost. And it doesn't really matter where in the layer that is. It matters more what is the kind of service that's being provided and what is the cost of that service.”
Joel Monegro Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 26:12 a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
20VC Disclosure
Slow Ventures avoids dApp investments to focus on crypto protocols
“First, we, I generally don't invest in dApps. Again, like we're much more focused on protocols. There are very few exceptions we would make to that.”
Sam Lessin Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 21:26 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
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dixon: Open-source crypto protocols will win just like Linux did
“The fact that it's open, and anyone can take it, and hack it, and fork it, and look at it, and audit it, and do all these things, like, this is why Linux won, right? And this is why all this stuff is going to win.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:53 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Johnson: Crypto marks first time governance is built into software code
“But now really for the first time, the governance is actually built into the code”
Steven B. Johnson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:35 a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
20VC Assertion Supported
Garg: Crypto protocols achieve secondary liquidity in two to four years
“The fact that many of these protocols or companies can go public, so to speak, onto these markets, onto the secondary markets in two or three or four years instead of seven to 10 years from an investor's perspective is a huge advantage.”
Avichal Garg Aug 20, 2018 ▶ 15:28 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
Xie: Decentralized governance research presents a massive startup opportunity
“I think there's massive opportunity to really figure out what's the best way to handle governance in a decentralized manner. I think that that's going to be a massive potential.”
Linda Xie May 2, 2018 ▶ 25:02 Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator

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