Hello, Real Vision people. This is Sebastian Moonjava. And today I have a very special guest, Gavin Wood.

He is the founder of Parity, Polkadot, Web3 Foundation, and Ethereum. I am so glad to have you

here, Gavin. How are you doing?

I'm doing well. Thanks.

Let's start off with a little bit about your background, getting into crypto in the first

place, and then maybe a little bit about your experience with Ethereum.

Sure. You want me to kick off?

Yeah. Yeah. Tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, how you even got started in the

space. All right. So I, it's a long story. I went to university. I did like a PhD in

computer science, but I was always super into things like game theory, a little bit of social

science, political science. This was always kind of on the back burner, generally sort of pub

conversations, but quite in depth ones. I kind of noticed this thing called Bitcoin back in,

like 2011 or something, but I only actually sort of took a deep look at it into it in 2013.

And around the same time, I was actually doing a start-up with an old friend,

software for lawyers, so to help lawyers do their author their contracts,

dumb contracts, paper contracts. And towards the end of 2013, I got talking to a few people in

the Bitcoin community in London, quite regularly. One of the people I met was Vitalik,

who was, who had just done this like initial white paper for this thing called Ethereum.

And, you know, I was kind of looking for a little gig on the side. So I said, yeah, sure,

I'll code it up for you. And yeah, Ethereum sort of took off quite a lot into 2014 and 15.

So I was the CTO, the initial CTO for Ethereum Foundation. And it was sort of basically down to me

to make sure the thing actually launched, which it did, happily, mid-2015.

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