BREAKDOWN: Tom Shaughnessy on the Big Metaverse Bet
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🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Delphi Digital co-founder shares his thoughts on what’s coming in 2022.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by Tom Shaughnessy. Tom is a co-founder at Delphi Digital, where he invests in early-stage innovation in the crypto space.
Find our guest on Twitter: @Shaughnessy119
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| 0:00.0 | Crypto gaming is huge. I mean, it's like, it just works, it clicks, and it's easy. |
| 0:05.5 | You have a zillion people around the world gaming. They understand the value of owning their assets. |
| 0:10.9 | They will soon understand the value of being able to play and earn money and accrue value |
| 0:15.6 | and to be able to take it with you project to project. And these are also gamers that |
| 0:20.6 | are tech savvy and understand the flows, and they could |
| 0:24.5 | really pick this up quickly. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:32.5 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:39.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:47.4 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, December 30th, and it must be the section of the breakdowns |
| 0:53.8 | end of year extravaganaganza where I focus on |
| 0:56.3 | the crypto-VCs. Yesterday I had Catherine Wu from Coinbase Ventures, and today I'm delighted to |
| 1:01.5 | welcome Tom Shaughnessy, one of the founders of Delphi Digital. Delphi is really notable because |
| 1:07.3 | they got their start in this space as a research firm, as a consultancy, |
| 1:12.6 | but they have become so much more. They still have those arms, they still have some of the best |
| 1:17.5 | research and professional level content out there, but they've jumped into the world of not |
| 1:22.8 | only investing, but actually helping teams design their companies for a new Web3 world. Because of that, |
| 1:29.3 | obviously Tom and I spend a lot of time on some of these frontier spaces, and I'm really |
| 1:33.7 | excited to share that perspective. These are the types of projects that certainly aren't inevitably |
| 1:38.6 | big picture power shifts, but are also probing the ground for areas that could be ripe for |
| 1:44.1 | disruption. |
| 1:45.2 | These guys were early to axi infinity and the whole play-to-earned movement, and so I'm thrilled |
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