Is This Something That F T X Is Going to Be Interested In?

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S b f checked the same box on the 13 d form, saying that he's not planning on being an activist investor. There definitely still speculation that he will do that anyway. Then he's going to come in and try to make some big changes at the company. Even i personally never imagine the difference in scale between those two companies,. especially given the f t x mostly just does crypto stuff. Yat sir, it's a flex that's duffly a power move by s b f as he's no woWell, it's also funny, cause the yad like this filing, like talked about. This is a very common filing, but it's the filing that like el

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita discuss the continued fallout from the broader market crash and how life is going for crypto giants on the public markets. We chat about FTX’s 30-year-old billionaire CEO buying up a big chunk of Robinhood, which is pumping the gas on crypto even as the market cools. We also discuss trouble at Coinbase and the continued fallout from the collapse of Terra.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Mercedes Bent. Bent is a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners where she places bets on consumer products in cryptoland. Before joining Lightspeed, Bent spent some time in the VR world, so we picked her brain on where crypto fits into this metaverse future everyone is clamoring about.

Helpful links:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/robinhood-lets-users-manage-their-own-crypto-wallets-in-push-to-spur-trading/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/coinbase-backtracks-hiring-plans-crypto-market-turmoil/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/encode-club-is-minting-new-web3-developers-amid-crypto-talent-war/

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