i've been reading and writing a lot about web three, crypto, all of this kind of, it's really having a moment. Especially out here in silcon valla, you have a lot of people kind of leaving the big tet companies and going to crypto startup tree start ups. We're using voice of ip right now. No one who uses voice of ip knows how it works, but it works, right? So why did voice of ip become possible? Because a new network, a new intrastructure that had nothing to do with the traditional network ight was created. And we could take the same transaction that used to go through that intermediary and transact between us.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius, to talk about creating a crypto fund manager (3:25), managing risk (8:40), growing up in Israel (11:50), buying a one-way ticket to New York (14:10), his first startup (16:10), launching a voice-over-IP company (22:50), getting kicked out of his own company (27:50), trying to build Uber before Uber (30:10), putting wifi in the New York subway (34:10), getting into crypto (37:10), getting rejected by 200 venture capitalists (42:15), going from zero to $24 billion in assets under management (44:00), “centralised finance” (48:35), why he put $300 million of his own cash into Celsius (50:25), the future of crypto (55:05), and Web 3 and the fight for the future of money (1:02:40).
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