Frederic Chesnais, CEO of Atari: The Legendary Atari's Big Move into Crypto

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Frederic Chesnais is the CEO and Chairman of the Board at Atari. In this conversation, Frederic and Anthony Pompliano discuss the history of Atari's brand, how cryptocurrencies can incentivize new types of work, why gaming is finding product/market fit in crypto, and what Atari plans to do to capitalize on the crypto opportunity. -----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. -----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp.
0:05.5	You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:13.0	Frederick Chesnace is the CEO and chairman of the board at Atari.
0:17.7	In this conversation, we discussed the history of Atari's brand, how cryptocurrencies can incentivize new types of work, why gaming is finding product market fit in crypto, and what Atari plans to do to capitalize on the crypto opportunity.
0:31.6	I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.
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1:16.1	Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
1:19.3	All opinions expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions
1:23.7	and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital
1:27.5	Management. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp as a specific
1:31.5	inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an
1:37.0	expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only.
1:41.8	All right, guys, bang, bang. I am here with Fred, super excited to go over everything that you've been up to.
1:49.0	So thanks for so much for coming in.
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