Mike is a Co-Founder of LinksDAO, an organization using web3 technologies with aspirations of building the world's greatest golf club. He is also the Founder & General Partner at 6th Man Ventures, an early stage crypto VC firm. Mike is an Advisor at Paxos where he serves as Head of Stablecoin Business Development. He previously founded and was CEO of The Block, a crypto informational services business. Before that, Mike was co-founder and CRO of Button and spent time working at Google, Braintree/Venmo, PayPal, and Disney. Follow him on Twitter @mdudas.
[2:18] - How Mike’s experience in tech and finance introduced him to the crypto universe
[12:23] - Mike’s background in golf
[14:12] - The educational process behind starting a real-world NFT project and the early growth of LinksDAO
[19:48] - Progressive decentralization for DAOs
[25:29] - Mike’s perspective on the modern MBA and getting into entrepreneurship
[28:53] - Building The Block through the crypto bear market of 2018 and 2019
[30:54] - Mike’s advice on executive hiring and how Web3 recruiting is different
[35:54] - An innovative organizational structure used by LinksDAO
[38:26] - The evolution of crypto during Mike’s time in the industry
[43:11] - New York sports
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