Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Stan Kladko, Co-Founder and CTO of SKALE Labs. They discuss the evolution of SKALE Labs, the decentralization of finance and social networks, and the current state of artificial intelligence. This builds on our previous episode with SKALE's CEO and Co-founder Jack O'Holleran. 

Episode Highlights:

• Stan Kladko did his PhD in Germany in physics and moved to Stanford and Silicon Valley. 

Key Points

1. Decentralized finance, decentralized social networks, and gaming are popular in 2020. 

Quotes

• “The problem is when you are competing with companies like Google or AWS, these huge giants, it is very hard for a tiny start-up to actually sell things because people may like your product. But the question they ask, are you going to be there like next year?” –Stan Kladko

• “As a start-up, it is very important for you to understand what the market needs in a particular year.” –Stan Kladko 

• “To move the technology from early adopters to the mainstream you need to somehow cross the chasm and in the process of crossing the chasm you kind of change things a bit and make some compromises.” –Stan Kladko

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