EP 27: Convo with Lux’s Josh Wolfe and Our Best/Worst Crypto Debate with Slow Venture’s Sam Lessin

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What Gets You Excited About Crypto?

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Zack: crypto is just the idea that for the first time, you are basicly layering in memory in a distributed, trusted way into the internet. Zuck: I got excited about this idea when we were talking about what the innernet was im early on. "This isn't about technology...this is just about new human super powers being on leash," he says. 'I think some of the most exciting stuff we've done owe we were series zero seed investors in solon'

Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe joins to discuss startups in the current market, and the long-awaited release of the crypto debate between Zach Weinberg and Slow Venture’s Sam Lessin that got so heated we weren’t sure we could publish it.

(0:00) - Intro

(1:27) – Welcome Josh Wolfe

(3:10) – Market updates

(13:21) – Anti-bubble

(16:28) – Consolidation

(19:57) – Everything times pi

(22:35) – Welcome Sam Lessin

(25:43) – NY tech founders in ‘07

(30:44) – Slow Ventures

(33:12) – The crypto debate begins

(41:57) – On chain real estate

(49:19) – Legal protections

(1:03:10) – Does it hold up in court?

(1:09:52) – Final walk through

(1:14:42) – Bearer bonds

(1:19:58) – Zach’s reasons against crypto

(1:31:37) – Zach’s point

(1:33:51) – Carta for your DAU

(1:37:11) – Back to liquidity

(1:41:24) – Why is it not awesome?

(1:45:17) – Users

(1:52:40) – Unsettled case law

(2:00:29) – Final arguments

(2:04:10) – The boiling point

(2:06:59) – Maybe we can publish this part

(2:12:15) – Zach ending

(2:22:08) - Outro

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