Gaming’s Web3 Future (with FTX Ventures’ Amy Wu)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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As the gaming industry evolves to meet the challenges and opportunities of Web3, could it drive the mass adoption of crypto? Amy Wu leads investment, M&A, and gaming initiatives at cryptocurrency exchange FTX. She speaks with Azeem Azhar about how she evaluates crypto and Web3 as an investor, how she expects the gaming landscape to change in the next two years, and why the community that comes with NFT ownership is more important to her than potential profit.

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0:00.0	There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.
0:06.0	The A16Z podcast is an exception.
0:09.0	It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars,
0:14.0	even electric boats, eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast.
0:24.0	HBR presents.
0:35.0	Hi there, I'm Azim Azar, Founder of Exponential View.
0:38.0	Now we know the world is changing at an amazing pace.
0:41.0	Remarkable technologies are driving the fundamental rewriting of our economic and social order,
0:46.0	taking us into what I call the exponential age.
0:49.0	But what is it exactly? How is this transition taking shape?
0:52.0	What do you need to understand to find your footing and spot opportunity as a world changes?
0:57.0	Listen to my podcast to get answers to these questions and more every week.
1:01.0	Today I'm exploring the future of the internet with investor and operator Amy Wu,
1:06.0	who runs a $2 billion multi-stage venture capital fund FTX Ventures,
1:10.0	which invests in crypto, gaming and Web3 startups.
1:13.0	As a prominent gaming investor, Amy's perspective on the evolution of that industry
1:18.0	as Web3 emerges is particularly insightful.
1:22.0	We get into what consumer and gaming user trends tell us about the mass adoption of crypto,
1:27.0	how Amy evaluates these opportunities as an investor,
1:31.0	and why governance mechanisms associated with crypto are more exciting to her than the dollar signs.
1:37.0	If you're new to crypto, I suggest you listen to my previous conversations
1:40.0	with Milton Dominguez and Ronit Gosh, and also subscribe to my newsletter
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