What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of BlockCash. The podcast here with David Meltzer

today, going to talk about a lot of interesting stuff and have a great conversation. Season three

of Office Hours, I believe, is also out now on Apple TV. We'll talk about that as well as get

his thoughts on Web 3 a little bit. David, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you here.

What an opportunity and I want to thank you so much Brandon for having me to share an

ancient perspective on a very new type of opportunity and capability. Absolutely. Before we do,

I would love to learn a bit more about you and your origins. Could you tell the audience a bit more

about yourself? Maybe a little bit about your story and kind of some of the things you've done

in the past? Yeah, sure. I always say my story split into three worlds, born into a world like

many people of not enough. Not enough of anything for anyone where people are victims. Everything

happens to you. I grew up with a single mom, six kids who packed my dinner in a paper bag just so

she could work her second job, daytime teacher, nighttime filling up turnstiles with greeting cards,

a convenience stores. But that perspective of not enough led me on a journey to believe that money

would buy me happiness and money would buy me love. And when I finally graduated law school to

make a lot of money to buy my mom a house in a car, I realized that it wasn't necessarily the

doctor, the lawyer, the failure type of perspective. But I became an entrepreneur and worked in the

internet web one in 1992 when everybody was telling me the internet was a fad that I was making a

huge mistake not being a oil and gas litigator and turned down a hundred and fifty thousand

dollar a year job and sure enough though nine months out of law school, I was a millionaire,

bought my mom a house in a car and three years later we had a three point four billion dollar exit

to Thompson Reuters. And in 99 got into web two was Samsung CEO of their phone division and

from then have always applied technology and the web to every executive position I've had in

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