Future of Financial Media & Digital Assets | Jason Yanowitz & Michael Ippolito

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 174 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Ippolito and Jason Yanowitz, the founders of Blockworks, a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors.

In this conversation, Jason and Michael share news about the recent launch of their editorial site, including anecdotes from their experience creating a crypto-focused, financial media company from scratch in an industry that has seen explosive growth in investor interest over the last 12 months.

If you are interested in blockchain technology, decentralized finance, cryptocurrencies, or just generally fascinated by the culture in crypto and blockchain, you will love this conversation. Michael and Jason explain how they bootstrapped the company without any outside funding, creating a stable of talented podcast hosts like Ted Seides, Peter McCormack, Preston Pysh, and most famously, Anthony Pompliano, whose podcast they started together and which has since become the most popular podcast in crypto.

The second half of the conversation focuses primarily on understanding the content and business models of BlockWorks and how they compare to their competitors.

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Episode Recorded on 01/07/2021

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0:00.0	The Hidden Forces Podcast features long-formed conversations, broken into two parts,
0:05.3	the second hour of which is made available to our premium subscribers,
0:09.3	along with transcripts and notes to each conversation.
0:13.0	For more information about how to access the episode overtime's, transcripts, and
0:17.0	rundowns, head over to patreon.com slash Hidden Forces.
0:22.0	You can also sign up to our mailing list at Hidden Forces. You can also sign up to our mailing list at Hiddenforces.io.
0:26.0	Follow us on Twitter at Hidden Forces pod and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.
0:32.0	And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. What's up, up up everybody? My guests on this episode of Hidden Forces are Michael
0:58.6	E. Polito and Jason Ganowitz. The founders of Blockworks, a financial media brand that delivers breaking news
1:05.7	and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors.
1:10.9	I got a chance to meet Jason and Michael for the first time about a year and a half ago and I remember
1:16.2	being impressed not only by their hustle but also by their ingenuity and ambition in launching
1:22.2	what was at the time the only crypto blockchain focused
1:25.8	events and podcast production company that I was aware of but which has since
1:30.0	evolved to become something much bigger. I invited them on the program today to discuss the
1:35.3	recent launch this week of their new online editorial site. It was an opportunity for me to
1:41.2	learn not only about their journey as entrepreneurs in the
1:44.2	crypto space, but also about what it's been like to create a media company from scratch in an
1:49.7	industry that has seen such explosive growth in investor interest over the last 12 months.
1:55.7	If you are remotely interested in blockchain technology, decentralized finance,
2:00.5	crypto currencies, or just generally fascinated by the culture in crypto, you will absolutely
2:06.8	love this conversation.
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