Rapid Response: What the crypto crash teaches us all, w/Chainalysis’s Michael Gronager
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Crypto winter isn’t a disaster, it's an opportunity. That’s how Michael Gronager, CEO of $8 billion crypto data company Chainalysis, describes the crashing prices and bankruptcies that have roiled the cryptocurrency sector. Gronager offers an insider’s perspective on operating in a volatile marketplace, providing lessons on dreaming too big in boom times and on leaning into building and creating when lulls emerge. Chainalysis helps track financial flows on blockchains, including crypto criminals from North Korea and Russia. Despite current risks, Gronager argues, the still-emerging crypto sector is maturing, and he’s as confident as ever about its future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, this is Chris Gotier, I'm one of the producers of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to tell you about a show from our friends at Harvard Business Review that might help you better understand the world of business. |
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| 0:50.1 | Now onto the show. |
| 0:53.1 | Everything moves fast in crypto. That's how it is. |
| 0:57.1 | It's a little bit discussing the same around the internet in the 90s, right? |
| 1:00.8 | A few companies called internet companies. |
| 1:03.0 | And they say that it will be crazy. Maybe it will crash, what will go on there. |
| 1:07.5 | And then slowly people started to be present on the internet. |
| 1:11.8 | And maybe the first step into crypto that's similar. |
| 1:14.7 | So I think we are early in the phase today. |
| 1:19.3 | Every company will become a crypto company. |
| 1:21.7 | And it will change the world. |
| 1:30.7 | That's Michael Groniger, the founder and CEO of Chain Alicis, a company that |
| 1:34.9 | gathers intelligence on digital assets in the cryptocurrency space, monitoring a |
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