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)