Tristan Thompson on Reclaiming Financial Freedom With Crypto
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's great defy platforms that you can go and take your stable coin and literally in a year make 20%. |
| 0:07.8 | That's over 3x of what the Wells Fargo is providing for you. |
| 0:12.5 | But what I try to tell them is that, listen, nobody works for free. |
| 0:16.5 | If Wells Fargo is giving you 4%, that means the Wells Fargo as a bank and as an entity, |
| 0:21.7 | they're probably making that 20% or they're probably making even more. |
| 0:25.0 | But in the day, that's just how the decentralized banks have been built. |
| 0:28.2 | For me, it's like, why not take back some control of your financial freedom |
| 0:31.9 | and put yourself in a position where you can control that stable coin, right? |
| 0:44.0 | Friends, Defi is having a moment. |
| 0:47.7 | Uniswap Labs, web app, and wallet connect you to the excitement. |
| 0:52.5 | Swapping and bridging our simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, |
| 0:55.5 | including base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new layer two network designed for defy. Thanks to deep liquidity on uniswap protocols, you get minimal |
| 1:00.6 | price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through uniswop v4. Swap, send, |
| 1:07.4 | on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future. Get started at uniswomp.org. |
| 1:12.7 | Tristan, welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you for having me, Jen. |
| 1:15.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:16.6 | How do you go from athlete to tech founder? |
| 1:20.2 | Talk me through that journey. |
| 1:21.6 | I mean, for me as an athlete, I think as more athletes, |
| 1:25.3 | how the sports world is changing. |
| 1:27.5 | I think we've done such a good job entering a career at such a young age, |
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