54 - Why DeFi is the Future | Mark Cuban
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Mark Cuban needs no introduction, but the entrepreneur and Shark Tank host has an impressive depth of knowledge of the crypto space, and he has a particular ability to break complicated subjects into simple, digestible ideas.
Listen as we talk DeFi, NFTs, Ethereum, and the future of finance with Mark Cuban!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the Frontier Internet Money and Internet Finance. |
| 0:18.8 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front-run the opportunity. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Ryan Sean Adams, I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become |
| 0:27.8 | more bankless. |
| 0:29.6 | David, this was a legendary interview. |
| 0:33.6 | Who did we talk to? |
| 0:35.0 | We talked to Mark Cuban. |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah, Mark Cuban, the guy on Shark Tank, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, the guy that |
| 0:42.6 | is making a ton of noise about his tinkering, his experimenting with DeFi, the guy that is |
| 0:49.3 | super, super bullish NFTs. |
| 0:52.0 | My biggest takeaway after talking with Mark Ryan is, damn, it makes sense as to why this |
| 0:58.8 | guy is a billionaire. |
| 1:00.5 | The guy puts in the effort, the guy puts in the research, he plays with things himself, |
| 1:05.8 | so he knows what it's like because he is in the weeds. |
| 1:10.4 | Really smart guy. |
| 1:11.4 | It's overall super impressed by Mark and man. |
| 1:13.1 | This was an absolutely fantastic, really fun interview that we had with him. |
| 1:17.4 | David, he schooled us on some ERC standards here, right? |
| 1:21.3 | I'm going to do a conversation on something like, I mean, he is dug right in, he is dug |
| 1:26.0 | in deep, and he's got his arms wrapped around what this DeFi thing is, and what these NFT |
| 1:31.6 | things are, and I was so impressed with the level of knowledge he was able to go with |
| 1:37.9 | us in this conversation. |
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