Jan 29

Gokul Rajaram - Lessons from Investing in 700 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.456]

My guest today is ⁠Gokul Rajaram⁠, Founding Partner at Marathon Management. Gokul is one of the most prolific product builders and investors of the last twenty years. He has built the core ad and product businesses at Google, Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, working at each compan ... Show More

1h 16m

Jan 20

Patrick O’Shaughnessy - Creating on Principle - [Invest Like the Best, EP.455]

This week is a special episode. Only David Senra could get me to be on the other side of the mic. Because I don’t plan on being interviewed often, I wanted to share this conversation, which I so enjoyed, with our audience. It went in a very different direction than I expected. We ... Show More

2h 6m

Jan 13

Tom Digan & Greg Stewart - Building the World’s Best Fitness App - [Invest Like the Best, EP.454]

My guests today are Tom Digan and Greg Stewart. Tom is the co-founder of Ladder, and Greg is its CEO. Ladder was my first angel investment. What followed over the next seven years is one of the most unlikely and dramatic business stories I’ve been a part of. Today, Ladder is the ... Show More

1h 14m

Dec 2021

OpenSea: An Everything Store for Digital Assets - [Founder’s Field Guide, Replay]

Today, we are re-sharing our conversation with Devin Finzer, CEO and co-founder of OpenSea, from October this year. OpenSea is the world’s largest NFT marketplace. In a journey that started like many other founders in the space, Devin went deep down the crypto rabbit hole in 2017 ... Show More

52m 2s

Nov 2021

A Primer on NFTs - Jesse Walden - [Invest Like the Best, Replay]

Today we are re-sharing my Invest Like the Best conversation with Jesse Walden from March 2021. Jesse is the founder of Variant, an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks and platforms building the ownership economy. With all the hype surrounding NFTs, I wanted to ... Show More

48m 6s

Apr 2022

How Crypto Offers 10% Yields - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP. 15]

I’m Eric Golden and my guest today is Matt Ballensweig, Co-Head of Trading and Lending at Genesis where he’s responsible for trading, origination and execution of all digital assets and loans. I got connected with Matt when I started trying to find out how investors are able to g ... Show More

1h 8m

Nov 2021

The Potential of Blockchain Technology - Chris Dixon - [Invest Like the Best, Replay]

Today we are re-sharing our Invest Like the Best episode with Chris Dixon from April 2021. Chris is one of the leading minds in Web3 and a must-follow for anyone in the space. Chris is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and a prolific investor and thinker, having been both ... Show More

1h 13m

Feb 2021

#155 - NFTs Explained: How Digital Art Is Being Sold For Millions and What the Opportunities Are

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss: Negotiation as a Service (NaaS) - The guys talk about (and maybe invent) a new category of business: negotiations as a service. The idea here is that there are certain big ticket items where a professional can negotiate a ... Show More

53m 32s

Feb 2023

Nikolai Yakovenko: Algorithms We Live By - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.57]

This is Eric Golden and my guest today is Nikolai Yakovenko. Nikolai is the founder and CEO of DeepNFTValue, which uses machine learning to price blue chip crypto assets like CryptoPunks and Bored Apes. He has spent his career working on deep learning at some of the most notable ... Show More

1h 2m

Sep 2021

#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

[Updated] In this episode Sam (@theSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) talk about what Shaan has learned over the last week by taking a Bill Gates-inspired week off to dive deep into crypto. They also talk about Wilbur Wright, identifying stories from your work experiences, and who the ... Show More

1h 24m

Apr 2022

Hedge Funds vs ETFs, Passive vs Active, 70s Inflation vs Now, & Commodities vs CTAs with Simplify's Mike Green

What exactly does a chief strategist do? Besides picking fights with Bitcoin HODLers on Twitter… And how exactly does one of the most prominent voices on the dangers of too much passive money trying to fit into a single asset classes on/off ramps, end up at….wait for it….an ETF s ... Show More

1h 17m

Jul 2023

Gary Coover: Designing a Sustainable Token Economy - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.79]

This is Eric Golden and my guest today is Gary Coover. Gary spent 8 years building Samsung’s innovation arm, Samsung Next, before he was drawn into the Web3 world. Today, he is the Chief Operating Officer of Superlayer, a venture studio focused on building Crypto startups. We sta ... Show More

45m 20s

Oct 2022

Quarterly Market Recap: Q3 2022 - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.41]

This is Matt Reustle and it's that time again - our 3Q 2022 quarterly recap. If you listened to our second quarter episode, that was a recap of carnage. A "what the hell just happened" episode. For this go-around, Eric helps assess the damage and signs of light in the market. The ... Show More

57m 1s

Devin Finzer - An Everything Store for D...