"Universities today are selling a piece of paper at great cost and telling people that buying it is the only way they can save their souls". In this cast we talk to GP Danielle Strachman of 1517 Fund on her dedication to dispelling the "diploma illusion" of one size fits all education. Her focus on relationships first venture capital, and her time at Thiel Fellowship with inspiring founders like Ethereum creator Vitalik Butern.

Reflection and integration of new information and lessons is a critical in a startup environment from product feedback to regulating founder psychology. In this cast we chat with Nima Tahami & Mohsen Mohsenpour about their founder lessons and goal of turning car sharing into an on-demand experience with ShiftRide.

Decentralized systems are, by nature... well.. a bit chaotic. While many investors in the 2017 ICO craze have been burned by more questionable offerings, 2018 continues to been the year of infrastructure and governance development. In this cast we chat with CEO Alan Wunsche of TokenFunder on their new platform for bringing investor protections and regulatory considerations for ICOs and more.

"Hey Siri, put out a request to anyone in Barcelona for a weekend apartment rental at $100 a night". In this cast we talk to Founder Mark Beylin about his company The Bounties Network and his thoughts about it's applications to incentivizing humans to make progress in new ways environmentally, socially, and economically.

Identity is one of the key components in building inclusive financial services for an increasingly global world. Duncan Brown of DIID talks about using behavioural data in emerging markets to build digital identities.

The feigned herd of institutional money and investors just waiting on the side lines to get into the new world of digital assets is proclaimed far and wide among cryptocurrency investors. But results have been slower than forums have thought. In this episode we chat with founder and CEO Ali Hassan, who is leading the charge with Crescent Crypto in providing access to institutional level investors to the highly desired returns from digital assets with his passive crypto index fund.

Utility tokens are by use, the glue that binds together protocols in cryptocurrency land and projects, giving rise to the so called "Fat Protocol Thesis". How should we go about thinking of utility and protocol tokens in the ethereum and cryptocurrency world?

Technology is developing at an unimaginable speed but have you ever stopped to ask the question, "How is this going to impact us and the evolution of humanity as a whole?". In this cast, we chat Ian Pilon on his opinions in this wacky world of Sensors, Blockchains, and AI.

Finding quality blockchain engineers for cryptocurrency based projects is among one of the most challenge pursuits right now in the crypto world - Mahesh Murthy wants to solve that with Zastrin Labs.

Scaling applications in the Ethereum ecosystem is among one of the hottest debates today. Matt is Co-Founder of the Loom Network, and joins us to discuss how Loom plans to scale Ethereum Apps to Twitter like size, and provides his thoughts as a blockchain entrepreneur.