David Schwartz is the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP. What is it like to start, build and build out a crypto startup? Is it different than the web and internet startups that we’ve covered on this show for years? What is Ripple? How is it unique in the crypto ecosystem? What is it trying to do for the world? All ... Show More
Oct 2021
203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email
Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.Strik ... Show More
34m 18s
Oct 2020
202. The del.icio.us Story With Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us, is someone I’ve wanted to talk to from the very first day of this podcast. As we’ll discuss, del.icio.us was such a standard bearer of the web 2.0 era. Of user generated content. Of sharing long before Facebook or Twitter or any of that. ... Show More
1 h
Aug 2019
201. The History of Audible With Angelika Fuellemann
Angelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it really is funny to look back and think ab ... Show More
25m 4s
Nov 2023
Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus
<p>with @davidmarcus @smc90</p><p>This wide-ranging conversation covers company building, big to small -- including what cadence and when is the right "time" to ship; the relationship between centralization, decentralization, platforms, and financial freedom; moving from web2 to ... Show More
48m 39s
Aug 2022
655. Insights: What does good crypto design look like?
Our expert host, David M. Brear , is joined by some great guests to ask: 'What does good crypto design look like?'
It was recently announced that BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company, is now offering clients direct access to crypto – starting with Bitcoi ... Show More
47m 7s
Feb 2022
ETHDenver Shows Not All Crypto Communities Are the Same
On today’s show, David Z. Morris, CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist examines the sociology of the Ethereum Community from what he observed at ETH Denver.
Read the story here.
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Arculus and MELD.com.
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6m 24s
Jul 2023
The Crypto Founder Who Won a “Landmark Victory” Against the SEC
Hollywood may be shut down, but one industry seems to be enjoying a surprising upswing: crypto. Kara interviewed Ripple co-founder and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen hours before what is being called a “landmark victory” – but, as Nayeema and Kara note, it’s not a clean victory. ... Show More
1h 6m
Sep 2025
Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
<p>(0:00) Introducing Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko</p> <p>(0:55) Crypto under Trump vs Biden, stablecoin boom, what it means for US treasuries</p> <p>(5:56) Traditional exchanges using blockchain vs crypto-native exchanges, how crypto gets mass market</p> <p>(10:02) Most e ... Show More
25m 7s
Jan 2019
Tom Shaughnessy, 51percent Founder: Crypto Research in the Wild West
Tom Shaughnessy is the founder of the institutional crypto research platform 51Percent. In this conversation, Shaughnessy and Anthony Pompliano discuss what equity research is, how information is gathered in crypto, and how institutions are thinking about the space.-----Join the ... Show More
47m 15s
Feb 2021
#498 Edan Yago on Decentralized Infrastructure for Bitcoin
Today’s episode is with Sovryn community founder Edan Yago. This podcast is a a recordeding from a Youtube Livestream on 2-15-21.
In this conversation, we discuss decentralized infrastructure, synthetic assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, oracles, permissionless innovation, wrapped Bitcoi ... Show More
1h 4m