Ethereum
11 statements across 5 episodes · 10 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2017 by Juan Benet · said 63 times in 9 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Juan Benet (28), Jesse Pollak (8), Craig Cannon (8), Linda Xie (7), Avichal Garg (3), Tom Sparks (2), João Batalha (2), Elad Gil (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 8 mentions in 1 episode
2018 18 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 37 mentions in 2 episodes 19 per episode
Everything said about Ethereum, oldest first
Jul 1, 2017 positive
Benet: Bitcoin and Ethereum enable cheap financial instruments, not consumer utilities
“What Bitcoin and Ethereum did was allow you to create Any kind of, you know, financial instrument extremely cheaply and with, you know, almost free verification of correct proceeding of this financial instrument, which is not normally a consumer need.”
Jul 1, 2017 bullish
Benet: Tokenized networks are emerging as alternatives to traditional companies
“The company is fading away, or not fading away, but rather a new thing has come in, which is the network or a market that, that is not a company, but it functions kind of like a company. And so you can think of Ethereum not as a company, but rather as a, as th…”
Jul 1, 2017 bullish
Benet: Ethereum could reach Google or Apple valuations in 5-10 years
“So if Ethereum continues to be useful five, 10 years from now, you're going to have, and continues to accrue continues to grow, right? So if Ethereum becomes more and more successful, continues to solve a whole bunch of problems, then an ether is going to be w…”
Jul 1, 2017 positive
Jul 1, 2017 positive
Benet: Protocol Labs uses token models to fund protocol-layer development
“That kind of funding model allows people to remain very close to the actual protocol layer and to think deeply about the protocol itself and its concerns without having to think about a product or a service on top. So this is precisely what protocol apps' busi…”
Oct 11, 2017 bullish
Kor Adana in 2017: Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are the future
“Personally, I think blockchain is unbelievably exciting, and I think it's the future. So I am all for people investing in cryptocurrencies, investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and it is a volatile market right now, and you have ICOs coming out every day, and That …”
Jul 6, 2018 neutral
João Batalha: Paper authors often make poor annotators due to internalized knowledge
“What's interesting is that well, the authors of the paper sometimes, you know, they are not going to know where people are going to struggle understanding the paper, oftentimes.
I remember when I was annotating the Ethereum white paper, right?
Written by Vita…”
Jul 27, 2018 bullish
Gil: A subset of current crypto projects will become massive like Amazon
“And then in parallel, I think there's things that exist today that are sort of the Amazons of crypto that are gonna be massive in their own right and already exists. You know, maybe it's Bitcoin, maybe it's Ethereum, maybe it's a privacy token like Monero, Zca…”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Pollak: Building an AMM interface is an ideal crypto 'Hello World'
“Building an interface that lets you interact with a swap like an AMM or an exchange, right? So one of the really powerful things that crypto enables enables you to seamlessly swap between assets. You can swap between Ethereum and a stable coin or between multi…”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Pollak: Base Compresses Transactions to Ethereum to Slash Costs 1,000%
“So what base does is you can kind of think about it like an HOV lane. We sit on top of Ethereum. We take millions and millions of transactions. We compress them and we publish them to Ethereum. And that means that when we're compressing them, we can get a ton …”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Pollak: Decentralization is essential at the base layer, not entire stack
“The place where decentralization is really, really important is at the very bottom of the stack, right? You need decentralization at the Ethereum layer, at base, because what that enables is it enables this global platform that everyone can come and participat…”