Polkadot
product on 8 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 31 times in 15 episodes since 2017
Big Technology 11 
Capital Allocators 7 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 4 
Top Founders 3 
the a16z Podcast 3 
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 17 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
- Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
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2021 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Disruptive Innovation & Unbundling The S&P 500 With Howard Lindzon | Where It Happens
- Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
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2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
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5 statements about Polkadot, every show
Wood: Polkadot will underpin a new decentralized social networking protocol
“Yeah, I mean, this is a collaboration. And I'm happy to sort of announce that, you know, Polkadot is, is the, you know, sort of underlying technical framework that you know, this will be implemented upon.”
Wood: Polkadot targets beyond thousands of transactions per second by 2026
“We're really looking to push beyond this, like even thousands of transactions per second. That's like a bit of a sort of a goal right now and looking in the next three or four years to be orders of magnitude greater.”
Jain: Ethereum 2.0 requires unsolved computer science; Solana only required engineering
“Whether we're talking about Ethereum, two point O near Polkadot, those are sharded blockchains and they require some meaningful Computer science breakthroughs to happen in order to actually function and deliver what they needed. Solana did not need that. Solan…”
Ginns: Mainstream Investors Will Hear Much More About Polkadot in 2021
“Polkadot is one challenger base layer, and I think that the broader mainstream investment community will start to hear a lot about developments in the Polkadot ecosystem over the course of this year.”