The Logan Bartlett Show

EP 20: Interview with Ramp’s Eric Glyman (+ explaining Cartoon Avatars’ origins) and a Crypto Debate with Mike Dudas and Zach Weinberg

Jun 11, 2022

02:29:38

Creator website

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Impossibility of a Decentralized Identity Service

01:57

Cryptocurrency

01:59

Distributed Security and Censorship Resistance

05:09

Introduction

2min

The New York Eco System - I'm Flying There Tonight

2min

I Think You Were Very Civil in All of This Stuff.

3min

Bitcoin

6min

Did the Block Raise Outside Capital?

3min

Investing in Cryptocurrency and Tokens

3min

Distributed Security and Censorship Resistance

5min

Speculative Store of Value, Long Term Holder?

2min

Bit Coin

3min

10.

The Digital Gold Argument Is Always a Challenge

2min

11.

Is Digital Gold an Inflation Hedge?

2min

12.

Bit Coins Correlation With Traditional Assets

3min

13.

Bit Coin Payment Use Case

2min

14.

I Love the Lean Bull Thesis

2min

15.

Is Bit Coin a Global Censorship Resistance?

2min

16.

Is the Winburg Coin the Answer?

2min

17.

Is Western Union a Peer to Peer?

2min

18.

Cryptocurrency Will Succeed at Scale

2min

19.

Can I Send Money to Mexico?

2min

20.

Cryptocurrency

2min

21.

Is There a Use Case for Stable Coins?

2min

22.

What Happens When You Make a Mistake When You Send Crypto?

4min

23.

The Impossibility of a Decentralized Identity Service

2min

24.

I Can't Reverse My Transaction Once I Send You Money, Right?

3min

25.

Cryptocurrency

2min

26.

Are You Putting Up Risk Capital Um to Insure?

2min

27.

The Number One Most Important Feature in Credit

5min

28.

Uh, I Don't Know, Um, Uh, Yeah, It Was a Strange City

5min

29.

Is That Really So Unique?

4min

30.

What if There Was Software That Would Refund the Price?

5min

31.

Capital One Credit Card Company

6min

32.

FinTech

3min

33.

How to Integrate All Your Payroll Spend Into One System?

5min

34.

You're a Financial Service Business, Right?

3min

35.

Um, Um, the Idea of Central Casting at Paraos

4min

36.

Product Vilosity

4min

37.

Um, You Know, It's All About Scalability, Um, Scalability

2min

38.

Um, You Know, the Structure of the Product, Um, Um.

5min

39.

You're Creating a Sense of Inevitability, Right?

4min

40.

You've Got a Sense of Inevitability, Right?

5min

41.

How Do You Think About Valuation?

5min

42.

The Ranch Ramp Pitch, Um, Is Better?

6min

43.

I'll Grant You One Wish. Thinks Paribus Helped Me Save My Money

5min

44.

What's the Big Idea in Story Telling?

6min

(01:14) Introducing Zach Weinberg and Mike Dudas

(06:06) Mike’s background

(19:02) Exciting about crypto

(24:18) Zach vs crypto

(32:04) Inflation hedge

(38:25) Does Zach own Crypto

(41:00) Banking in foreign countries

(53:59) Stablecoin vs wire transfer

(59:00) KYC

(1:03:57) Crypto insurance

(1:09:24) Eric Glyman: Welcome

(1:11:32) Eric Glyman: Background

(1:16:57) Eric Glyman: Mandarin Debate video

(1:20:28) Eric Glyman: Starting Paribus

(1:24:51) Eric Glyman: Selling to Capital One

(1:28:57) Eric Glyman: Fintech’s success

(1:33:49) Eric Glyman: What is Ramp?

(1:43:10) Eric Glyman: Learnings as a 2-time founder

(1:48:13) Eric Glyman: Being purposeful

(1:52:55) Eric Glyman: Delegating as a CEO

(1:58:53) Eric Glyman: Building the inevitability of success

(2:02:43) Eric Glyman: Thinking through your investor base

(2:08:29) Eric Glyman: How do you determine your valuation?

(2:13:15) Eric Glyman: Advice for executives

(2:18:03) Eric Glyman: Craziest investor stories

(2:20:40) Eric Glyman: The origin of Cartoon Avatars

(2:21:54) Eric Glyman: Relationship between companies and media

(2:28:58) Outro

Links:

Eric Glyman debate video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxB5bb8xEDg

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

🎙 Listen to the show

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cartoon-avatars/id1606770839

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=00fe3494b43a4e4c

Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg

Follow on Socials

📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars

🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars

🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars

About the Show

A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA

🎙 Listen to the show

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-logan-bartlett-show/id1606770839

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1

Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg

🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1

Follow on Socials

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow

🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow

🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow

About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.