Alex Pruden
Executive Director, Aleo Foundation. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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A former U.S. Army Green Beret and Stanford MBA graduate, Alex Pruden previously worked as a crypto deal partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He later served as COO, CEO, and Executive Director of the Aleo Foundation.
1shows
1appearances
9statements
3resolved
1supported
0contradicted
33%fully supported
Everything Alex Pruden said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pruden: Blockchain can address economic root causes of war
“This is a technological innovation that can help address some of the underlying economic issues that often lead to war and conflict.”
Pruden: Half of 30,000 Iraqi soldiers defending Mosul were ghost soldiers
“The 30,000 soldiers that were supposed to be defending Mosul, only 15,000 of them were actually physically present. The other 15,000 were just ghost soldiers with the commanders collecting their paychecks.”
Pruden: Lack of land registry hindered Afghan economic development
“And unlike in the United States, or in Europe, or in some developed country, there was no land registry office that we could go to. There was no place where we could go to pull a deed to find out who legally owned what property. This lack of a canonical record…”
Pruden: Iraqi tanks defending Mosul lacked fuel due to black market
“Only when we got there and started talking to some of the survivors, we learned that actually none of those tanks had fuel when ISIS arrived. Because most of the fuel had been sold on the black market.”
Pruden: Centralized record systems fail when institutions are corrupt
“The problem in this case was not that there was no system of record keeping. So USA to the Iraqi army, there was a system of record to keep track of what went where. The problem was, it was just so hopelessly corrupt as to be completely untrustworthy.”
Pruden: Governments are exploring putting land records on blockchain
“In fact, various national, state, and county level governments are looking at actually putting records, land records, on the blockchain because it's far cheaper and more efficient than the alternative, old system.”
Pruden: Blockchain tracking would have exposed aid corruption in Iraq
“Applied to Iraq, this means that the sender of the military aid, which in this case was the US, would have been able to trace along the whole path that that aid took and ensure that it got to its intended recipient. And if anybody tried to siphon it off along …”
Pruden: Unit engaged in over 200 firefights in Afghanistan
“Over the course of that year, my soldiers and I were in over 200 firefights, experienced ambushes, IEDs, seven of them were actually wounded.”
Pruden: Bitcoin offered solutions to military structural issues
“I ended up reading the Bitcoin white paper, and I was completely captivated because what I read to me represented an opportunity to use this technology to address some of those underlying issues that I've witnessed during my military career.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | Executive Director, Aleo Foundation | 1 | 9 | 33% 1/3 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |