#494: Ian Sigalow on Venture Capital as a Platform

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ian Sigalow is a Co-Founder of Greycroft and a Partner in the firm’s New York office. In this conversation, we discuss the venture capital industry, digital assets, and Ian’s investments in Braintree, Venmo, Public.com, Plated, Buddy Media, and many others. ======================= The Stacks 2.0 mainnet launched on January 14, 2021. Stacks, which you may recognize as Blockstack, is a layer-1 blockchain that uses the Bitcoin blockchain as a secure base-layer and enables developers to harness its power in new ways. Stacks makes Bitcoin more than digital gold, enabling apps and smart contracts on Bitcoin--unlocking innovation, new value, and a new way to earn BTC. Visit http://www.stacks.co for more information. ======================= Coinbase Wallets are adding support for .crypto and .zil domains through their partnership with Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains provides an all-in-one solution for blockchain domains. You can send money using these new domains instead of long Bitcoin wallet addresses, while also storing your domain in Coinbase's collectibles section. Go to unstoppabledomains.com in the dapp browser to register and manage your domains. ======================= As one of the largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, Kraken is consistently named one of the best places to buy and sell crypto online, thanks to our excellent service, low fees, versatile funding options and rigorous security standards -- but this is only part of the story. We’ve been on the forefront of the blockchain revolution since 2011: http://www.kraken.com =======================

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:09.7	Ian Sigelow is the co-founder of Greycoft and a partner in the firm's New York office. In this conversation, we discussed the venture capital industry, digital assets, and Ian's investments in Braintree, Venmo,
0:21.5	public.com, plated, buddy media, and many others. I really enjoyed this conversation with Ian,
0:28.0	and I hope you do as well. Before we get into this episode, though, I want to quickly talk about
0:32.4	our sponsors. First up is Stacks. Apps and smart contracts are coming to Bitcoin, along with a new way to earn Bitcoin.
0:39.5	Stacks 2.0 will give developers powerful new tools, including a smart contract language called Clarity that was made for Bitcoin and jointly developed with Algaran, as well as a new consensus mechanism that rewards the network with both Stacks tokens and Bitcoin.
0:52.6	Stacks, which you may recognize as Blockstack, unlocks new use cases and functionality
0:56.0	for the world's most secure blockchain,
0:58.0	Bitcoin, without modifying Bitcoin itself.
1:01.0	The door for developers and entrepreneurs
1:03.0	to activate the billions of dollars of capital
1:05.0	currently passively held on Bitcoin are now wide open.
1:08.0	Proof of transfer, or POX, is the groundbreaking consensus mechanism that makes this all possible.
1:13.7	POX connects the Stax blockchain to Bitcoin, opening up STX mining on the network and
1:18.4	enabling stacking where STX holders can earn regular Bitcoin rewards for supporting consensus.
1:24.4	Stacks, apps, and smart contracts on Bitcoin. You can visit Stax.co for more information.
1:32.2	Again, stacks, apps and smart contracts on Bitcoin, go to stacks.co for more information.
1:40.1	Next up is Unstoppable domains. They're solving one of the biggest pain points in all of crypto.
1:45.3	No longer will you have to send a digital wallet address, that long string of letters and numbers.
1:50.1	Now you can simply send a human readable domain. So I have pomp.cropto. Somebody wants to send me Bitcoin. I say,
1:56.3	cool, send it over to pomp.c crypto. That domain name was bought at Unstoppable Domains.com.
2:02.0	If you want to buy one, you have to go to Unstoppable Domains.com and buy a specific name.
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