EP 20: Interview with Ramp’s Eric Glyman (+ explaining Cartoon Avatars’ origins) and a Crypto Debate with Mike Dudas and Zach Weinberg

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What's the Big Idea in Story Telling?

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The question is, what is actually interesting to people? Uh, right? Maybe it was more manipulative, but the question is like, like, who is this message actually appealing for? And then if you have that, can you create momentum on it? Were like the two critical insights. We would reach out to people and an email people in in las vegas and in an um, you know, in l a in new york. Before he knew it, there was coverage that was certain to pop up all across the country. If you could actually think about who's actually there was the producer? Um, we might have had a couple of users in all these differentUm states.

(01:14) Introducing Zach Weinberg and Mike Dudas

(06:06) Mike’s background

(19:02) Exciting about crypto

(24:18) Zach vs crypto

(32:04) Inflation hedge

(38:25) Does Zach own Crypto

(41:00) Banking in foreign countries

(53:59) Stablecoin vs wire transfer

(59:00) KYC

(1:03:57) Crypto insurance

(1:09:24) Eric Glyman: Welcome

(1:11:32) Eric Glyman: Background

(1:16:57) Eric Glyman: Mandarin Debate video

(1:20:28) Eric Glyman: Starting Paribus

(1:24:51) Eric Glyman: Selling to Capital One

(1:28:57) Eric Glyman: Fintech’s success

(1:33:49) Eric Glyman: What is Ramp?

(1:43:10) Eric Glyman: Learnings as a 2-time founder

(1:48:13) Eric Glyman: Being purposeful

(1:52:55) Eric Glyman: Delegating as a CEO

(1:58:53) Eric Glyman: Building the inevitability of success

(2:02:43) Eric Glyman: Thinking through your investor base

(2:08:29) Eric Glyman: How do you determine your valuation?

(2:13:15) Eric Glyman: Advice for executives

(2:18:03) Eric Glyman: Craziest investor stories

(2:20:40) Eric Glyman: The origin of Cartoon Avatars

(2:21:54) Eric Glyman: Relationship between companies and media

(2:28:58) Outro

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