179 - The Bankless Origin Story - Raoul Pal
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
The tables are turned as Raoul Pal interviews David and Ryan on all things Bankless.
They share respective origin stories of how they got into crypto, meeting each other for the first time, how Bankless got started and where the future frontiers of Bankless are headed.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
5:50 David's Crypto Journey
11:04 Ryan's Crypto Journey
19:12 David's 2017 Story
22:11 Conviction Through The Bear Market
28:00 Bankless Origin Story
32:53 Vision For Bankless
39:23 From DeFi to Web3
48:44 Tribalism
54:56 A Helpful Mental Model
1:01:39 Dealing With Hate
1:08:38 Bankless Ventures
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RESOURCES
Raoul Pal
https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI
Real Vision
https://www.realvision.com/
Real Vision Newsletter
https://www.realvision.com/dailybriefing
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| 0:00.0 | Something truly magic is happening here and yes we're in this bear market phase of it all |
| 0:07.2 | but there is total magic going on and that just gave me another shot in the arm to think you know |
| 0:12.6 | what what comes out of this is going to be massive. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to bankless where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:24.3 | This is how to get started how to get better and how to frontrun the opportunity. |
| 0:27.2 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more |
| 0:32.3 | bankless. Guys this is part two of our conversation with Raoul Paul and the tables have turned. |
| 0:37.7 | This time Raoul is interviewing David and myself so we wanted to publish this on the |
| 0:43.1 | bankless podcast as well. I hope there are some good takes in here for you. This is really an |
| 0:49.4 | opportunity to talk a little bit about the founding of bankless our early theses where we got our |
| 0:54.7 | start how we met. We're not usually interviewed and I don't think neither David and myself are in |
| 1:00.2 | a place to kind of ask each other questions as well as a third party would ask us so that's what |
| 1:05.2 | you're in for today. David you have any reflections on this episode. Yeah like you said like we don't |
| 1:10.4 | I always enjoy being on the other side of the microphone. The times that you and I both have been |
| 1:14.6 | on the other side of the microphone are very few and far between and nothing of this caliber of |
| 1:19.2 | like Raoul Paul. I'm pretty sure the bankless nation will thoroughly enjoy us being interviewed |
| 1:25.4 | rather than doing the interviewer interviewing. So yeah like Ryan said like the early days of |
| 1:31.0 | bankless or in Genesis of bankless like maybe you came into bankless during 2021 or later and missed |
| 1:37.2 | mine and Ryan's trajectory up to the genesis of bankless and then also the early years of bankless. |
| 1:42.1 | Like this will probably provide you a lot of context and probably illustrate how we got to be the |
| 1:46.3 | way that we are and why we say the things that we say. So I think this episode is going to be |
| 1:51.7 | pretty fun for a lot of people. It was also an episode very very rare episode where we were |
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