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This week we interviewed mercedes ben then is a partner at light speed venture partner's where she sits on the consumer investing team. She invests in web three companies in the gaming and ed tec sectors, as well as traditional consumer in vantax startups. Why do you think people actually want to spend time in the metaverse? Especially as companies are returning to work, people are meeting in person again. What's the appeal there? I've been interested in the Metaverse for a number of years now. And so it's kind of funny, it's become like a punching bag word maybe, you know, six years later. If you think about the potential of it, why,

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita discuss the continued fallout from the broader market crash and how life is going for crypto giants on the public markets. We chat about FTX’s 30-year-old billionaire CEO buying up a big chunk of Robinhood, which is pumping the gas on crypto even as the market cools. We also discuss trouble at Coinbase and the continued fallout from the collapse of Terra.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Mercedes Bent. Bent is a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners where she places bets on consumer products in cryptoland. Before joining Lightspeed, Bent spent some time in the VR world, so we picked her brain on where crypto fits into this metaverse future everyone is clamoring about.

Helpful links:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/robinhood-lets-users-manage-their-own-crypto-wallets-in-push-to-spur-trading/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/coinbase-backtracks-hiring-plans-crypto-market-turmoil/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/encode-club-is-minting-new-web3-developers-amid-crypto-talent-war/

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