EP 24: QED’s Frank Rotman Talks Crypto and Capital One Origins, Plus Redpoint’s Own TikTok Guy Revealed

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In the 24th episode of Cartoon Avatars, QED Investors Co-Founder and CIO Frank Rotman joins the crypto debate with Zach, and discusses Capital One’s unique origins and structure with Logan. Plus the “Redpoint TikTok Guy” Rashad Assir is finally revealed in his first appearance on the pod.

(0:00) Intro

(0:44) Introducing Rashad Assir

(3:25) Introducing Frank Rotman

(6:36) History of Capital One

(14:40) Building the infrastructure

(16:25) Starting QED

(18:29) Frank’s Web3 journey

(24:15) Where’s the substance?

(28:37) What in crypto makes the most sense?

(30:48) Lending vs Leverage

(36:55) Crypto in different countries

(45:14) Products are the hard part

(50:24) Noisy data

(52:40) To what extent is this interesting?

(1:00:16) The oracle problem

(1:07:47) Protections of a bank

(1:12:45) Reversibility

(1:17:52) Embedded features

(1:23:13) Mercenaries vs missionaries

(1:27:13) Web3 living up to its name

(1:36:06) Immutable public database

(1:39:09) Outro

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https://www.tiktok.com/@corporayshid?lang=en

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Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music Griff Lawson

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