Is Now the Right Time to Invest in Consumer Crypto?

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There's not many companies that i would say have scaled to what i would call mass audience. Yet we have met a mask, which is pretty far along. I think all these companies are up for grabs in terms af somebody else could come along to replace them. And probably those companies are being founded right now. But one of them may last. So why is it not too early to be investing?I think we're going to see like the next whats ap o l bogle founded, in short order. What's the next linked in? What's a net wet sap?"

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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