Exploring Contrarian Views in Crypto and AI Development

In this episode, Ben sits down with Jake Brukhman, Founder and CEO of CoinFund. Jake was one of the first to build a crypto investment firm and has since scaled CoinFund into a pioneering, institutional-grade asset manager with a liquid token hedge fund and multiple venture funds. 

Let's get into it.

Timestamps

2:14 What is your background?

4:11 What is your process for identifying emerging trends?

8:04 What was the insight to invest in crypto vs. found a tech start-up?

11:06 What did the first few years of CoinFund look like?

16:37 What is the process of building CoinFund into an institution?

20:47 How can we change the crypto narrative despite regulatory headwinds?

30:13 What elements of AI do you think are most impactful?

40:12 What does crypto enable within AI?

43:10 What are you excited by on the NFT creators side?

57:39 What is your most contrarian take in crypto?

Resources Mentioned

VenRock & CoinFund https://blog.coinfund.io/venrock-and-coinfund-teams-announce-strategic-partnership-eb1277dd4658

CryptoDad https://www.amazon.com/CryptoDad-Future-J-Christopher-Giancarlo/dp/111985508X

CoinFund President Appointed to CFTC https://crypto.news/coinfunds-chris-perkins-appointed-to-cftcs-gmac/

OpenAI https://openai.com/

WorldCoin https://worldcoin.org/

Ilya of NearProtocol https://metaschool.so/articles/alexander-skidanov-ilya-polosukhin-founders-near-protocol-profile/

Jake's Mirror Post on AI and Open Neural Networks https://jake.mirror.xyz/0hTmrmEddmTu7BA4feMonEA_z6LXJ6ulH4cAjwj1KMM

Stable Diffusion https://stablediffusionweb.com/

Zero Knowledge Proofs https://ethereum.org/en/zero-knowledge-proofs/

Gensyn https://www.gensyn.ai/

Connect with the guest

CoinFund https://www.coinfund.io/

Jake Brukhman Twitter https://twitter.com/jbrukh

Disclaimer

Ben Jacobs is a partner at Scenius Capital Management. All views expressed by Ben and the guests of this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Scenius Capital Management. Guests and the host may maintain positions in the assets or funds discussed in this podcast. You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy but only as an expression of their personal opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only.