Rob ‘Crypto Bobby’ Paone and Preethi Kasireddy on fundraising, halvings, and the long steady slog of crypto

The Breakdown

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Investing, Business

4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Rob Paone, aka Crypto Bobby, got his start as a popular crypto YouTuber and has gone on to help build a number of crypto companies before launching his own technical recruitment firm. Preethi Kasireddy is the founder of the TruStory debate platform. In two individual interviews as part of The Breakdown’s end of year extra, both argue that a big part of the 2019 story was the slow, steady slog of building, and that, in some ways, 2020 may be poised for more of the same.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW.
0:15.0	The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk.
0:24.6	Welcome back to the Breakdown's end end of year extravaganza. So today we have our first double interview.
0:27.6	Well, actually, it's two individual interviews, but they had some common threads that I thought
0:31.7	might work together.
0:32.7	So the first interview was with Rob Payone, better known perhaps as Cryptobobobby, got his start as a crypto YouTuber,
0:39.4	has worked for numerous crypto startups, and just recently this year launched Proof of Talent,
0:43.7	a technical recruiting firm for the crypto industry. And then secondly, we have Pritha Kasseretti,
0:48.9	who was ex-Koinbase, hashtag Coinbase Mafia, and is now the founder of True Story, which is a debate
0:55.5	platform that uses blockchains in interesting ways.
0:58.8	So the common thread I think for these interviews is the idea that this year was a little
1:04.7	bit subtle, a little bit behind the scenes, a little bit buildy, and that maybe next year
1:09.2	might look something similar, right? It wasn't necessarily a big fireworks year. It was something a little bit buildy, and that maybe next year might look something similar, right? It wasn't
1:11.2	necessarily a big fireworks year. It was something a little bit different. So I hope you enjoy this
1:15.9	interview. And if you do, please subscribe to make sure that you don't miss any of the breakdowns
1:20.6	end of your coverage. I hope you're having a great holiday wherever you are, and I will catch you
1:25.1	tomorrow. Welcome back. we have here mr.
1:31.1	crypto Bobby himself what's going on man not too much how you doing I am well for those of
1:39.2	you who don't know proof of talent tell everyone quickly about proof of talent of talent. I guess it's still a new project.
1:47.8	It's probably been a year and I just don't even notice anymore because time is such a weird thing.
1:51.6	Yeah. So back in June, I started a recruiting firm, it's a technical recruiting firm that works
1:57.7	exclusively with companies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.
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