The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

Ayush Aggarwal is the co-President of Blockchain at Berkeley, a student organization strongly pushing on developing blockchain technology and education. It's quite motivating to see the passion with which these guys at B@B put their time into growing our ecosystem, doing research, consulting, and even preparing and teaching courses to other students. 

Nishad has been instrumental to the growth of FTX and is someone I greatly admire within the company. He has this special tenacity to him, that combined with his intelligence make him a contender for one of the most capable people I've met. 

Jason Choi is the Head of Research at Spartan Group and spends a lot of time looking at incipient projects. In this episode, he shares how he analyzes and understands them better.

Creator of the notorious Crypto Kitties and NBA Topshots. Co-founder of Dapper Labs and FLOW blockchain, Dieter was a lot of fun to speak with. A builder of interesting and powerful social and technological networks.

Fireblocks is an all-in-one platform to store, transfer, and issue digital assets which many large scale institutions within and entering crypto are using. Stephen has a good perspective on how to navigate the balance between institutional structures and how crypto operates

Bobby Cho is the less public facing side of CMS Holdings, he's also the investment master. We had a great discussion around investment strategies and how to value longer term portfolios in such a strange quickly evolving market.

In crypto you have communities and then you have the BASED community. A community choke full of artists and creatives, it seems that token price no longer matters here, it's about a movement. An aesthetic quality that drives them all together. In this episode I delve deeper to find out how this all came to be. 

Matt is the head of lending at Genesis Trading one of the largest lending desks in crypto. He has an enormous amount of insight into flows and how to structure products that benefit them as lenders and firms as borrowers. 

This one worked out pretty serendipitously. Dan asked me when I was going to interview CL, I responded in a couple days and then asked if he wanted to jump on with us. I'm glad he did this episode is juicy and full of great market insights. 

Nodar is an amazing example of how someone with a vision and passion can build incredible products without being a developer. It was great hearing how far Zapper has come from its origins to where it is now, being one of the most used asset management tools in defi.