I think every country should make ther a tea najors, especially the spoiled kids we're growing these days. I mean, i guess, well, t certainly would push everybody out of comfort zone. It definitely makes you grow fast. And it's like an accelerator. Just like you put an enzyne to make sure that the things bakeor work. Ther's tary enzine, military enzime, exactly. So this would be like a coaching. Ead of going to psychiatrist and not get anything, anything out of it,. how about, ah, you know, we put you on a hill, do some push ups, mariso pushups, exactly. so old
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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