Sami Issa and Maggie Love of W3BCloud on Powering Web3 With Compute Infrastructure... May a Thousand Blockchains Bloom (EP.226)

I’m excited to be doing this first episode in a series of shows over the next few months on blockchain, crypto, web3 – whatever you want to call it. As long-time listeners know, I’m a drafter behind smart people on web3. I’m learning as I go, yet being skeptical, and probing through it. I have my angle of attack and know how I want to spend the next few years working on blockchain, infrastructure, web3, NFTs, and community. 

And while I haven’t talked often enough about it, in full disclosure, Social Leverage Acquisition Corp ($SLAC), the company I’m CEO of, has announced a proposed merger with W3BCLOUD. In addition, Social Leverage (Fund IV) (where I’m a GP) is a shareholder and member of the sponsor group – but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it. So who better to have on to make sense of all this? 

Guests:

Sami Issa, CEO & Co-Founder at W3BCloud

Maggie Love, Director - Ecosystem & Partnerships & Co-Founder at W3BCloud, Founder at SheFi

howardlindzon.com, w3bcloud.com, shefi.org 

Twitter: @howardlindzon, @PanicwFriends, @W3BCLOUD, @She_Fi, @knutjensen 

linkedin.com/in/samiissa

linkedin.com/in/maggielove07

#fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance 

Show Notes:

• Introduction (00:39)
• Welcome Maggie and Sami (06:44)
• Understanding ‘compute’ (06:58)
• Decentralization & ‘permissionless’ (1016)
• Crypto & Web3 (12:47)
• In the back yards of Giants (17:20)
• Composability (21:27)
• Not a ‘Winner take all’ world (24:04)
• Origin story (24:20)
• Dealing with bear markets (31:48)
• The adoption cycle (35:20)
• Infrastructure is the way (38:10)
• Buffett’s crypto play (39:45)
• Next internet revolution (41:54)
• Moving through the cycles (44:05)
• What makes the register ring? (50:19)
• Optimizing the hardware infrastructure (52:25)
• What is ‘trustless’? (52:54)
• ‘Proof of Stake’ (56:51)
• A new internet paradigm (59:50)
• An internet of value (1:00:52)
• The ‘wallet’ is key (1:01:28)
• Wrapping up (1:03:34)
• Closing thoughts (1:09:12)