Welcome to Layer 0. Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that

make up the Ethereum community. Crypto is built by code, which is composed by people, and

each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell.

The CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and

Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code, because the theorem is people all the way

down, and it always has been. Today, on Layer 0, I'm talking to Parker J. Paturot, who is a

venture capitalist at FinTech Collective, and also a core member of the Boys Club. And

Parker and I resonated with each other when we found that what we're interested in in our

backgrounds, people think are actually very far away from crypto, my background in psychology,

and hers in what is called critical theory. We're talking about college majors here, but

actually, there are things that are very directly related to what is at the basement level

of crypto. And so Parker and I had this hour-long conversation just unpacking, what is critical

theory, and what are these things about power structures in crypto, and how crypto is changing

the form factors of power structures, and what a power structure really is, and what it means

to be a power structure in crypto. Conversations like this, and how things like DAO's and social

movements and NFTs are allowing for new power structures to be expressed, but still not by changing

the rules of how power structures begin in the first place. So I think you guys are really going

to enjoy a conversation that is very close to the metal as to what we are doing here in the

crypto space, which is disrupting power. And also creating new power structures, hopefully ones

that are fundamentally better and more expressive and are more aligned with the people that are inside

of them. So without further ado, we'll go ahead and get right into the conversation with Parker,

right after we talk to some of these fantastic sponsors that make the show possible.

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