Matt Oguz- Venture Science- Venture Investing in Cutting-Edge Technology and Blockchain-Based Companies

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

At Venture Science, we are more calculated than some of the other venture investors out there…We try to quantify all of the attributes of these companies and understand how all of them contribute to the potential risks and rewards we would see,” says Matt Oguz, who is a founding partner at the San Francisco-based venture capital firm, Venture Science.
When looking to invest in a blockchain company, one of the first questions the team at Venture Science will ask is whether or not that company aims to monopolize the space they’re going after. He gives Ripple-one of the strongest companies they’ve invested in- as an example: having started with the goal of going after the payment space and replacing the services already there, Ripple has successfully and quickly risen to the top.
Oguz discusses a variety of topics, including the difference between many of the startups they were seeing a few years ago compared to the blockchain companies they’re seeing today, the current and future regulation of ICOs, and the promising trend toward decentralized and distributed computing.
Hit play to hear the full discussion, and reach out through Oguz’s LinkedIn page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, around the corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies, which is to transform our lives for better or, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.5	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.6	starting to be used.
0:18.0	We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence,
0:21.9	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:27.0	Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th and 16, 2018, the blockchain and
0:39.2	future check expo. This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people.
0:45.0	We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications.
0:48.0	We're going to be talking about quantum computing,
0:50.0	cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and several other future technologies that are poised
0:55.8	to and actually changing our lives as we speak.
0:59.6	Here's why you should attend.
1:01.2	As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated
1:04.6	and profited from things like the Gold Rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s,
1:10.3	from the internet boom in 2005, from the smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real estate
1:17.1	boom that ended in 2008, and of course from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now. They don't wait till
1:25.1	later. They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest
1:29.6	gold nuggets. If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference.
1:38.0	Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, how we send money around the world, how we bank and
1:45.2	more.
1:46.2	But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity will play a pivotal role
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