Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Jeremy Allaire who is the co-founder and CEO of

Circle, nice to see you Jeremy. This is your 8 Davos, you said.

I think so, yes.

So let's start with how the conversations and the tone has changed from the time you've been here.

Yeah, it's fascinating, right?

I started coming in the late 2009, 2010 kind of time frame.

And you know, I think as you went into like the mid to late teams of the World Economic Forum,

you know, there was a period of time is maybe peak globalization and and so much of the focus, you know, Klaus had organized around this idea of, you know,

we're entering the fourth industrial revolution and there's all of these, you know, very significant

kind of

The world being more connected than ever.

More connected and these rapid advances of technology

and that that would kind of fuel this next phase

of improving the state of the world and I think I you know sort of all of us saw both because of the

acknowledgement of the climate crisis but also because of political instability, nationalism,

balkanization, all these things post-2016.

Really, even starting before that with Brexit,

you really saw the nature of the focus shift.

And so obviously then we went into pandemic crisis and it was dealing with all of the aftermath

of the pandemic crisis.

And so here we are, I think this week.

And while there is some focus on fundamental technology

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