Dan talks with Rick Heitzmann, FirstMark Capital’s Founder & Managing Director, about whether the markets have bottomed out (01:00), why the best performing companies are starting to lay people off (10:30), deploying capital to successful businesses amid the financial turmoil (18:30), and which sectors will have the most opportunity after the economic uncertainty subsides (22:30). Later, Dan & CoinShares Chief Strategy Officer Meltem Demirors talk to Current CTO Trevor Marshall about the future of algorithmic stablecoins following Terra’s collapse (27:18), reevaluating the risk-reward of crypto investing after the recent crash (34:30), greed’s role in the rise of crypto & web3 (52:30), and whether inflation will drive more consumers towards FinTech (56:40).

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Dan Teran’s new Medium post on why the recent market slump “is not the dot com bubble bursting”: Things You Won’t Regret

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Okay, Computer 5/18/22: The Current Crypto Thing with Trevor Marshall & Meltem Demirors