Dieter Shirley

Everything Dieter Shirley said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Assertion Contradicted

Shirley: Ethereum 2.0 eliminates single shared state space composability

“What Ethereum gave us, and what Ethereum too is unfortunately going to be taking away from us, is a single shared state space where every smart contract can talk to every other smart contract and maintain those, you know, acid transaction guarantees that make …”

Dieter Shirley May 21, 2021 ▶ 3:31 NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain

a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated

Shirley: NFT market will face a washout of overpromising project teams

“I think that the, there is, Going to period be a period of time when there's a washout of some of these teams that maybe, you know, maybe they didn't even necessarily have bad intentions. They just bit off more than they could chew and didn't realize how, how …”

Dieter Shirley May 21, 2021 ▶ 12:50 NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain

a16z Insight

Shirley: Fiat and crypto conflict over transaction reversibility, enabling fraud

“That the traditional fiat world of finance and the crypto world of tokens, they do not play nicely with each other. One of them has a presumption that every transaction is undoable. The other has the presumption that no transactions are undoable. And that open…”

Dieter Shirley May 21, 2021 ▶ 8:47 NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain

a16z Assertion Supported

Shirley: CryptoKitties broke Ethereum at just 10,000 daily active users

“CryptoKitties broke Ethereum with sort of, You know, 10,000 ish users per day. And you can't build a consumer company at that scale. It's simply untenable.”

Dieter Shirley May 21, 2021 ▶ 16:55 NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain

The other half of the tape: Dieter Shirley's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Chris Dixon 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dieter's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Co-founder & CTO, Dapper Labs	1	4	50% 1/2	full record on the a16z Podcast →