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Olaf Carlson-Wee

Founder & CEO, Polychain Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Olaf Carlson-Wee is an American investor who founded Polychain Capital, a prominent crypto hedge and venture capital fund managing billions in blockchain assets. Before launching Polychain in 2016 with backing from venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, he gained industry prominence as Coinbase's very first employee and Head of Risk.

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9 predictions · 1 assertion · 3 opinions · 12 insights · 2 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 9 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Everything Olaf Carlson-Wee said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Web2 creators are held hostage by the distribution platforms they rely on
“I just think this is one of the big broken pieces of the internet today, is that YouTubers who make their entire career on YouTube don't like YouTube. They have a bad relationship with YouTube. People on Instagram who make their whole career posting on Instagr…”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jun 23, 2022 ▶ 33:43 Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
Insight
The most successful crypto protocols and innovations are forged during bear markets
“I just think everything really great in crypto, I think most of it was forged in a bear market, or it survived a bear market. This is actually most of crypto, is these bear market moments.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jun 23, 2022 ▶ 36:06 Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
Insight
Crypto entrepreneurs building to convince investors rather than users will fail
“It's entrepreneurs building for capital markets instead of building for users. It's hard to put exactly unless you've been in like, 10,000 pitches Especially in unproven categories like crypto where it's unclear if you have product market fit or it's a complex…”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jun 23, 2022 ▶ 53:39 Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
Disclosure
Olaf Carlson-Wee invested his life savings into Bitcoin in 2011
“I put most of my life savings in Bitcoin that summer in 2011. I think it was 500 dollars or 700 dollars or something like that.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jun 23, 2022 ▶ 9:26 Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)

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Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04) Jun 23, 2022 46m
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