Okay, happy Friday, everybody. We've got a great show for you today. I'm going to talk to author Max

Chafkin about his new book, The Contrarian, Peter Tiel, and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power.

The interview gets a little heated. I challenge him on two very sticky subjects. The first being,

he mentions many times in the book, that Peter Tiel has people around him who are white supremacists.

Not saying Peter Tiel's a white supremacist, but the people around him are white supremacists.

And then the other issue I talk about, well, I'll let you get to that when you hear the interview.

But first, I'm going to cover Coinbase's new NFT platform and the blowback they're getting from

some recent hacks. And should customers investing in crypto assume some level of risk in their

account security? I think so, right? If you're going to be in a situation where nobody's in charge

and it's a distributed system and it's easily hacked, well, maybe you should expect that you will

get hacked. But Coinbase and Robinhood are both investing massively in phone support and customer

support, which is a great idea. Okay, let's get to the show. This weekend's startups is brought to

you by LinkedIn Jobs. A business is only as strong as its people and every higher matters.

Post your first job for free at linkedin.com slash twist.

Belay. Yet back to doing what only you can do, growing your organization and leave the rest

to belay. Learn how by texting twist to 55123 or visit belaysolutions.com slash twist for a free

ebook called Rise Up and Leadwell by Trisha Ciotino, CEO of belay and Zendesk. Qualifying startups

can join the Zendesk for startups program and get six free months of Zendesk products.

You'll also get access to an exclusive community of startups for advice and connections.

Visit zendesk.com slash twist today to get started.

Okay, on Tuesday, Coinbase announced that they will be launching an NFT platform and the

wait list grew to over 1 million users in just 24 hours. So here's the quote from the Coinbase

...