a16z crypto is announcing Fund 5: $2.2B to back the founders building the next era of crypto. All four GPs — Chris Dixon, Ali Yahya, Guy Wuollet, and Eddy Lazzarin — join Robert Hackett to discuss why now, what's changed, and where it's all headed: from regulatory clarity and stablecoins, to AI agents, programmable money, and the infrastructure defining cryp ... Show More
Apr 22
Why AI is so centralized: How it's built, who controls it, and what comes next
A few big companies control most of the infrastructure behind AI. Most people experience AI through a wide range of different apps that actually depend on a deeply centralized stack of data and compute. In this conversation, Ben Fielding and Harry Grieve — cofounders of decentral ... Show More
17m 23s
Apr 2022
Experiential Marketing and Making Crypto Events More Memorable
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, discusses how his team disrupted the traditional event experience with their recent Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, along with some of the risks they took that really paid off. He also shares the big ... Show More
35m 10s
May 2024
E316 | EUVC | Natasha Lytton, Vincent Touati-Tomas and Jeroen van Dornik on marketing in venture capital
Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC podcast. Today, we are discussing all things marketing in venture capital, such as:
narrative developmentthesis developmentmeasuring marketing activitiescontent creation for a VC firmpositioning and its role in fund strategyAI impact on ... Show More
1h 14m
Oct 2025
How to Bootstrap to $1Million ARR [REVEALED]
In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Ish Jindal, the engineer-turned-entrepreneur who spent four years not knowing what MRR meant while bootstrapping TARS to $1M ARR. After discovering the internet in his second year of college, Ish went from building edu ... Show More
1h 2m
Oct 2023
#274: Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder of Mysten Labs, on The Role of Blockchain for Digital Economies, and Building Libra/Diem
<p>Adeniyi is a product leader with experience spanning from financial services to crypto. Adeniyi has led engineering and product teams across Big Tech companies including Oracle, VMware and Facebook. Prior to founding Mysten Labs, Adeniyi led many of Meta’s R&D initiatives ... Show More
37m 38s
Aug 2025
Practical Entrepreneurship for Marketers
In this episode of the DMI podcast, host Will Francis speaks with Faisal Laljee, entrepreneur and growth strategist, about the intersection of entrepreneurship and marketing. Faisal shares his insights on risk-taking, growth hacking, customer acquisition, and building brands that ... Show More
45m 27s
<p>My Interview with Haider Rafique, CMO, OKX at <span spellcheck= "false">#token2049</span></p> <ul> <li>Why the crypto industry must call out bad behaviour to move from the wild wild West to the middle mile West</li> <li>OKX's pivot from centralised exchange to Web3 wallet and ... Show More