Sam Altman’s “Worldcoin,” Facebook hits $1T + Alchemy’s Nikil Viswanathan on “AWS for Blockchain” | E1238
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Facebook becoming the fastest company to ever reach a $1T market cap (11:16). Then, Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan joins for an interview on his "AWS for the blockchain" (20:44), the limitations of the blockchain (29:24) & more! Podcast Notes: https://bit.ly/1238notes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:03.0 | Alchemy co founder, |
| 0:04.3 | Nikhil Vishwanathan joins us to talk about the building of AWS for the blockchain |
| 0:09.9 | alchemy is currently powering the flow blockchain and be a top shot |
| 0:14.6 | and many other popular crypto applications. |
| 0:17.0 | Really interesting to talk to somebody who's building the picks, |
| 0:19.5 | shovels at infrastructure of the space. |
| 0:21.7 | So we talk about NFTs, non-fungible tokens, |
| 0:24.7 | crypto entry strategies, Ethereum versus Bitcoin and of course, |
| 0:27.9 | Tether and the ongoing Tether investigation, |
| 0:31.7 | the CTO and CFO of Tether started engaging me on the Twitter and they've been |
| 0:37.1 | doing memes and dunking on me. |
| 0:38.8 | But the CTO said he'd come on the podcast and Jeremy Lair from Circle, |
| 0:43.9 | the other stablecoin has agreed to come on the podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | So the next month is going to be very interesting. |
| 0:49.0 | If you have questions or tips for me on how to handle those interviews, |
| 0:53.3 | of course, DMs are wide open and you know, my email because it's my Twitter handle, |
| 0:57.2 | Jason at Calacanis.com. |
| 0:58.5 | And we've got two important news stories. |
| 1:00.9 | I think we actually have a potential Bitcoin replacement coming from legendary |
| 1:07.2 | entrepreneur, Sam Altman and Facebook dodged a bullet with antitrust stick with us. |
| 1:14.5 | This week in startups is brought to you by SecureFrame helps hundreds of companies |
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