The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

A conversation with Lev Mazur CEO of Quantfury and Daniel Schwartzkopff CEO of Invictus capital. We touch on Quantfury as a business, Invictus as a fund of funds in South Africa and several points of the macro crypto industry. 

In this episode, we explore what makes an investment worthwhile for Parafi Capital and the different methodologies that are used to evaluate teams, projects, and founders. We also look at the cryptocurrency space and DeFi as a whole and were we seem to be moving to.

Zaheer Ebtikar has a strong and clean grasp of financial and crypto markets, in this episode he gives his thoughts on several of the events we've seen driving the markets and what they could mean down the road.

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency, and crypto assets. Paul has been instrumental in many of the firms investments in projects which are now instrumental to the entire blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. In this episodes he shares his and the firms methodology for analyzing investments, as well as various perspectives on macro and micro environments in our space.

Riccardo is one of the main reasons Monero exists to this day. We had an insightful conversation into privacy in our digital age, maintaining a coin project for almost a decade and mechanisms to improve our control of our information online. 

Ava Labs is the group behind Avalanche (AVAX) which is an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications, new financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains.

The most common advice I get when I ask founders for advice on building a company is to truly be passionate about what you're building or the reason you're building it. Maki covers both of those boxes, and his passion is a large driver in the enormous growth and innovation Sushi has seen in the past months. 

In this episode, we discuss KP3R, impermanent loss protection, the Iron Bank, DeFi conglomerates and building for yourself rather than money.

John Kelleher transitioned from defense contracting to smart contract writing, to being one of the principle members of the DXDao community. His story is great and I enjoyed our debates on DAO structure and pros/cons of a decentralized organization. 

Amir Taaki is a British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer who is known for his leading role in the bitcoin project, and for pioneering many open source projects. Forbes listed Taaki in their 30 Under 30 listing of 2014. That's his Wikipedia description which is pretty damn cool if you ask me.