a16z Podcast: Building Companies in Crypto, from People to Code
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🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. For more details, please see A16Z.com slash disclosures. |
| 0:18.7 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Today's episode focuses on what it takes from people to code to build or work in |
| 0:26.9 | crypto companies. |
| 0:28.1 | It's moderated by A6 and Zcom's partner Kim Milosevic and features the following guests. |
| 0:33.8 | Tina Butnagar, who is a VP of Operations and Technology at Coinbase. |
| 0:38.5 | She was formerly VP of Global Operations at Twitter and of infrastructure services at Salesforce. |
| 0:44.4 | Preeti Kussi Reddy, who is the CEO and founder of True Story, a platform for users to discover and validate claims made online, whether in a white paper, blog post, or social media. |
| 0:55.3 | She's a blockchain engineer who also spent time at Coinbase and who transitioned into |
| 0:59.4 | software engineering after spending a couple years as an investing analyst at A6 and Z early in |
| 1:04.3 | her career. And then last but not least, we have Lily Liu, who is a co-founder at Earn.com. |
| 1:09.7 | She was previously a CFO at China's first foreign |
| 1:12.2 | funded private mass market hospital and spent time at McKinsey early in her career. |
| 1:17.9 | The conversation is based on a panel recorded at our inaugural intro to crypto event, co-hosted |
| 1:23.4 | with hashtag Angels in April 2018. You can also find other sessions from this event as podcasts, as well as on our YouTube |
| 1:30.1 | channel as videos, covering everything from why decentralization matters to the regulatory |
| 1:35.0 | landscape for crypto. |
| 1:36.9 | Well, I'd love to just do a little bit of a lightning round and hear from each of you, |
| 1:40.1 | what do you think are some of the biggest misconceptions in this space? |
| 1:43.9 | And how would you like to address them? Preeti, do you think are some of the biggest misconceptions in this space? And how would you like to |
| 1:45.4 | address them? Precate, do you want to start? Sure. I would say a big misunderstanding is |
| 1:53.2 | decentralization for the sake of decentralization. I think people sometimes get too obsessed with that. |
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