Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

I need to use a lot of this money to convince people that everything else other people are trying to do for you in the metaverse or in the crypto world.

Almost everybody, almost without exception, everybody there is doing it because they want to steal from you.

They want to grab your money or your coins in a form of fees,

in a form of liquidations, in a form of everything besides helping you get to financial freedom.

And if I can convince enough people, then we can build this future together.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

I'm your host,

Danny Ford's and the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times. And this week, we are talking

crypto. We're talking web three, the future of, well, maybe everything or maybe nothing. Our guest

has some great stories to tell and a really unique perspective. He is

Alex Mashinsky. He's a serial entrepreneur who has launched eight different businesses. He's had a few

multi-billion dollar exits. And these days, he runs Celsius, which you can think of as kind of like

a crypto fund manager. let's call it.

So you let them manage your Bitcoin or Ethereum or whatever, and they lend it out, generate

returns, and then they send those back to you, just kind of like a typical fund manager,

except it's also very different as you'll soon hear.

And Mashinsky has just raised a whopping $750 million to grow Celsius,

which has already been exploding, as you might expect, given everything that's been happening

with cryptocurrencies over this last year, year plus. And it's only three or four years old,

the company itself. And what's really interesting is, as I mentioned, he comes at all of this

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