Shahaf Bar-Geffen is CEO of COTI - a privacy preserving L2. In this session we discuss their challenges and learnings from building, launching and growing their Layer 2 network.

In this session I talk with Albert from Yeager.ai about AGI - Artificial General Intelligence and where Blockchain might come into play.

Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR), XR (eXtended Reality) and the Metaverse. The world is changing - both physically and digitally. No wonder they continue to merge together.

This, is not an episode you want to miss.

01:31: Why did you found multiple companies?

03:21: Underlying Core Motivations

04:57: What do you think made you successful?

06:57: How to channel curiosity to not get distracted?

08:00: Unlearning previous lessons

09:20: How to build something the market craves?

13:18: Did your approach to achieving PMF change?

14:37: Did your Why change?

16:28: Successful people lack something you have

17:55: The Process is the Goal

19:34: What makes a Product truly Great?

20:53: Biggest Challenges faced

22:37: Toxic Emotions kill your Drive

23:09: When would you sue somebody regardless?

23:40: Sales. Tech or M&A

25:51: Founding a Company outside your Industry?

26:48: How difficult was the Industry shift?

27:26: I'm not sure if I want to do this anymore

28:26: Unpopular Opinions

31:48: Key Learnings in Hiring

34:00: What Leadership style did you pursue?

35:57: Key-Learnings in Leadership

37:21: Accountability as a Leader

38:38: What would have helped you?

40:26: 3 Key Learnings to Remember

Discover the cutting-edge world of blockchain technology with our latest podcast episode focusing on Alephium. This innovative platform is revolutionizing the crypto space by combining the best features of Bitcoin and Ethereum while introducing its own unique solutions.

Learn how Alephium's novel sharding approach, called BlockFlow, enhances scalability and security, and explore its energy-efficient proof-of-work consensus mechanism.

Bridging funds in crypto is a pain - it's expensive, takes time, insecure and just causes headaches. In this episode Aisling Connolly - General Lead of Multichain Integrations at DFINITY introduces their newest technology called Chain Fusion.

Watch on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adpHBxEhsY8&list=PLsZkl0r_l2kvaGllkk8PgzMUXK6zHkyU9

"Build and they'll come" - there is no statement that could be more wrong in today's world. Billions of Dollars have been wasted on software products that got halted due to lack of product-market-fit.

In this very provocative episode we challenge Blockchain from a Product perspective, discuss the potential of Zero Knowledge technologies, and John's famous Two-But rule to find product ideas worth pursuing without losing momentum.

John Wolpert is an esteemed speaker, writer and thinker in technology and business innovation. As a CEO, product executive, and advisor, he’s been at the vanguard of technological breakthroughs from the early days of the Web to the rise of artificial intelligence.

John is known for founding Flywheel, a pioneer in the ride-hailing industry. His work at IBM made him a key figure in the evolution of open source software, blockchain, and AI.

He’s co-founded global R&D consortia and industry standards bodies, and his thought leadership on Open Innovation has been showcased in the Harvard Business Review.

John has led countless new venture workshops and spoken before the European Union and the Australian Parliament in his mission to help organizations work together to solve hard problems.

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In this episode I talked with Toni about his HLiquity project. HLiquity generally speaking is a fork from the very successful Ethereum protocol "Liquity" with some reasonable tweaks. DeFi on Hedera is gaining steam, as such HLiquity might be able to capitalize on some great momentum.