Maria is a partner on the investment team at Electric Capital: an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. Prior to Electric, and as a Cornell + Harvard trained computer science engineer, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup in the supply chain space as well as having worked as a product manager at Microsoft. Maria is a great advocate for women, minority and immigrant founders in the tech space, especially in web3. She's also a Zoom TV producer... creating two reality shows during lockdown in 2020!

Our conversation with Maria is nourishing and empowering and traverses the topics of:

• Shifting from tech founder to investor in the crypto ecosystem
• NFT remixing and fundraising with NFTs
• The Global Creator Collaboration Studio
• Tokenized communities
• DAOs solving human coordination problems
• Founding femmes, non-binary + minority folk in the crypto space
• Creating the Zoom Bachelor + Bachelorette

Show Links:

• Maria on Twitter
• Zoom Bachelorette + Zoom Bachelor
• Electric Capital

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Where to find us:

• The TILT on Substack
• Twitter
• Instagram
• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

Produced for you, with love, in the decentralized metaverse/ Aotearoa NZ.