Paul Vigna

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

a16z Insight

Vigna: Bitcoin diffuses centralized financial power across broader society

“What I think Bitcoin can do is take that power of the currency and diffuse it. A decentralized system where people really can be their own bank if you want to, or you can use a certain, you know, it takes that concentrated power and it diffuses it among the br…”

Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:27 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

a16z Insight

Vigna outlines the five psychological stages of Bitcoin adoption

“The stages, it's, you know, it's dismissal, it's disdain. Your first one is disdain. Disdain, dismissal, curiosity. The fourth one is actually the key. The fourth one is the aha moment, the eureka moment, and we played around with, I wanted to call it the oh f…”

Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:28 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated

Vigna: Mainstream Bitcoin trust requires time to prove stability

“Until Bitcoin proves itself over time to be a stable, reliable store of value, a platform, a good platform, people won't trust it. I mean, it just, it literally is just a time element of this thing proving itself.”

Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:27 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

a16z What-if

Vigna: The 2008 financial crisis spurred Bitcoin's rapid early growth

“It helped it because I think that that's part of the reason why it's grown so much faster than other technologies would have.”

Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:41 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

The other half of the tape: Paul Vigna'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 Balaji Srinivasan 1

Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Managing Editor, American Banker	1	4	—	full record on the a16z Podcast →