Is It Difficult to Build a Block Chain in Cryptocurrency?

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I think a lot of crypto panders are an ecosystem mind set, which is, we're trying to build the entire eko system. Whereas traditionally in webto you would have told founders to focus on one thing and not launch additional products until they had amazing market fit for that first product. So i am excited to see a little bit more focused products going forward. But it's both a easy and hard job. You know, nobody feels sad for v c, as we hoav the ti as a violin out here. I've definitely been in that spot where you're like unti want to just figure out how you can add some extra income into your life. And ime very

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.

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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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