Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital: An Ex-Facebook & Google Product Manager Talks Crypto Investing

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Avichal Garg is the Managing Partner at Electric Capital. In this conversation, Avichal talks about the early days of working at Google and Facebook, building a machine learning company, and his career progression from employee to founder to crypto VC. ---- Totle is a rare blockchain investment opportunity, one that offers a live product, active customers, an established revenue model. Totle solves three significant problems with blockchain asset exchange: 1) Security 2) Complexity and 3) Pricing. Over $4 trillion of blockchain assets were exchanged in 2018 and growth is forecast for at least the next 10 years. Totle’s sophisticated platform powers the blockchain economy with safe, simple decentralized asset exchanges at the best price for traders, wallets, businesses and other financial apps. Totle’s B2C Web App and B2B API are live and serving customers today. Visit totle.com/pomp for more info. ----- Ethereal Summit returns to New York City this May 10th to 11th to kick off Blockchain Week and offer you a chance to go deep into the heart of crypto, blockchain, and Ethereum. Get up close with outspoken crypto leaders like Mike Novogratz, Joe Lubin, Tushar Jain, Danny Ryan, and yours truly Anthony Pompiliano. Ethereal Summit is where you can get in the mix with the builders of blockchain. Check out Etherealsummit.com with discount code POMP to get 20% off tickets to come hang with the brightest minds in blockchain at Ethereal Summit New York, May 10th to 11th at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

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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
0:06.0	Off the Chain, simply the best podcasting crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:12.4	Avichel Garde is the managing partner at Electric Capital. In this conversation, Avito
0:17.9	talks about the early days of working at Google and Facebook, building a
0:21.1	machine learning company, his career progression from employee to founder to crypto VC, and aliens.
0:28.2	His takeaways from working at Google and Facebook are fascinating, and Avichel has interesting
0:32.1	insights into the diversification and risk mindset of being a founder and a VC. I hope you enjoy this conversation nearly as much as I did.
0:40.5	I'm sure a lot of you have used kayak to find the best flight. Total's kind of like kayak, but it don't
0:45.8	find you no flights. It helps you find liquidity on decentralized exchanges and it optimally routes your
0:50.9	trades for execution. So kayak, you find flights. Total, they help you find liquidity.
0:56.4	We should get kayak on it for this spot that I'm providing them, but Total instead is our
1:00.4	advertiser and you should go visit total.com slash pomp. Again, that's total.com slash pomp and let
1:06.7	them know that I sent you. Tell them you love their product. Take a screenshot,
1:10.7	tweet it at me. I'll drop you some fire emojis and then we'll all be happy. So total.com Let them know that I sent you, tell them you love their product, take a screenshot, tweet
1:10.8	it at me, I'll drop you some fire emojis, and then we'll all be happy.
1:14.3	So total.com slash pomp.
1:16.3	This May 10th and 11th, Ethereum is coming to New York City to kick off blockchain
1:20.7	week.
1:21.7	It offers you a chance to go deep into the heart of crypto blockchain and Ethereum.
1:25.8	Come hang out with Mike Novogrods, Joe Lubin, Tushar Jane, Danny Ryan, and yours truly.
1:30.9	You get into the mix with the builders of blockchain and Ethereum.
1:33.9	It's less shiller, all killer.
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