Kraken CEO Jesse Powell responds to NYT hit piece and breaks down the state of crypto + Alexander Olesen CEO of Babylon Micro-Farms | E1487
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
Today, we recap the Warriors' finals win (2:50) with some potential takeaways for founders (14:00). Next, Jason speaks with Jesse Powell: founder, and CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, and they discuss the state of crypto and the recent hit piece the NYT published on him (48:06). For this week's OK Boomer segment, Producer Rachel sits down with Alexander Olesen, co-founder, and CEO of Babylon Micro-Farms (2:07:41).
(0:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show!
(2:50) Warriors win! Recapping the Warriors’ finals run
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(14:00) Downmarket: what can you do? Lessons founders can learn from the Warriors’ leadership
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(23:55) Work harder, work smarter
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(31:41) Toss to Jason’s interview with Jesse Powell, founder, and CEO of Kraken
(48:06) Jesse Powell speaks with Jason about his NYT hit piece, crypto, and company culture
(2:02:04) Recapping Jesse Powell + Toss to OK Boomer with Alexander Olesen, CEO, and Co-Founder of Babylon Micro-Farms
(2:07:41) OKB: Producer Rachel speaks with Alexander Olesen
(2:26:00) Outro
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we got a crazy big show for you and I got crazy energy. |
| 0:04.4 | I got it does big championship energy. |
| 0:08.0 | Warriors won the championship and I am so excited, Molly. |
| 0:11.4 | It was a great, it was a great night. |
| 0:13.3 | It was a great series. |
| 0:14.9 | It was great to see Doraemon Green be like, yeah, fans about you gave me a real hard |
| 0:19.6 | time, Boston fans, but we'll look what I did. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm beach. |
| 0:24.3 | Oh God. |
| 0:24.8 | So awesome to see them win in Boston. |
| 0:27.0 | We'll talk about the game and the series later in the show. |
| 0:31.6 | So skip ahead if you're not a basketball fan, but yeah, it's our, it's our backyard. |
| 0:36.3 | So we're going to do it. |
| 0:37.2 | And then we have a really interesting interview for you today. |
| 0:40.5 | Jason sits down with Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, who is, yeah, a great |
| 0:45.8 | cat about this week's New York Times article about how he was handling or maybe |
| 0:51.1 | mishandling the company and then also the state of crypto. |
| 0:55.8 | I mean, there's really a lot of actually enlightening information about regulation |
| 0:58.6 | and what's happening in the crypto market and how he's still buying. |
| 1:01.2 | And I want to, I want to get your feedback on how I handled that interview, |
| 1:04.8 | interviewer to interview. |
| 1:05.7 | It's just, I thought it was a great conversation. |
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