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Crypto's Gender Disparity: What Can Be Done About It? 4 Women Weigh In - Ep.234

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Crypto sits at the intersection of two male-dominated industries: tech and finance. I was asked to moderate a panel for the Amber Group with four leading women in crypto to discuss the role of gender in the crypto industry and what can be done to bring more women into the space. Panelists include Mia Deng, partner at Dragonfly Capital; Amy Zhang, vice president of sales at Fireblocks; Alexis Gauba, cofounder at Opyn; and Annabelle Huang, partner at Amber Group. Show highlights: how each panelist got into crypto, what it is they do, and which company they work for why women have been somewhat reluctant to speak on crypto gender disparity in public what the main obstacles to bringing about better gender diversity in crypto whether the crypto space is harder to break into than traditional finance for women how gender issues in the U.S. are different than in Asia why more women have begun trading cryptocurrencies and how to increase that interest which crypto explanations are most effective for female friends why there are so few female crypto co-founders good hiring practices for bringing more women into the space advice for women trying to break into crypto    Thank you to our sponsors! E&Y: https://ey.com/globalblockchainsummit  Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unchainedcardearnfeb2  Kyber Network: Dmm.exchange    Episode Links   Panelists Mia Deng Crypto career cofounder at TR Lab ---- NFT Platform (2021) partner at Dragonfly Capital - https://medium.com/dragonfly-research  Head of biz Development + Venture partner @ Amber Group - https://www.ambergroup.io/about  Social link https://twitter.com/miagegedeng?lang=en   Amy Zhang Crypto career vice president of sales at Fireblocks - https://www.fireblocks.com/  head of sales/investor relations at Diginex - https://www.diginex.com/  Social link https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyzwzhang/?originalSubdomain=hk    Alexis Gauba Crypto career cofounder at Opyn - https://www.opyn.co/#/  cofounder at she256 - https://she256.org/  Social link https://twitter.com/AlexisGauba   Annabelle Huang Crypto career partner at Amber Group  - https://www.ambergroup.io/about  founding member at KeeperDAO - https://twitter.com/Keeper_DAO  risk lead at AirSwap - https://www.airswap.io/  Social Link https://twitter.com/_annabellehuang?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained here, no high free source for all things crypto.

0:07.3

I'm your host Laura Shin, a journalist with over two decades of experience.

0:11.4

I started covering crypto six years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first

0:16.0

mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time.

0:19.5

Follow and change on Twitter at Unchained underscore pod where you can find all sorts of

0:23.1

content ranging from a weekly newsletter to update some of my upcoming book and a whole

0:27.0

lot more.

0:28.5

Today's episode is a panel I moderated for Amber group on Power Women in crypto.

0:33.5

The four speakers are executives in crypto who are happy to discuss the role of gender

0:37.7

in the industry.

0:39.2

What explanations are most effective for bringing in women, good hiring practices for bringing

0:43.3

more women into the industry and more.

0:46.1

Panelists include Nia Deng, a partner at Jack and Fly Capital, Amy Zhang, Vice President

0:51.3

of Sales at Fireblocks, Alexis Galba, Founder at Open, and Annabelle Huang, partner at Amber

0:57.6

Group.

0:58.6

For those of you watching on video, you may notice we're all wearing white.

1:02.3

The organizers asked us to wear white as a symbol of inclusiveness across traditional

1:05.8

finance and crypto.

1:07.3

No matter where you're listening, this panel was an extremely interesting discussion on

1:10.9

a subject that many women in the industry speak about privately but not openly.

1:15.8

I hope you enjoy it.

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Now onto the show.

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