Trump’s impact on crypto future and your portfolio, with Unchained’s Laura Shin

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

While the first family engage in their own memecoin ventures, the crypto market is booming. Crypto expert and host of the podcast Unchained, Laura Shin joins Rapid Response to reveal the sector’s emerging economic, political and geopolitical implications. Shin also provides a primer on how to best experiment with crypto today, why Stablecoin is growing so fast, and what Coinbase joining the S&P 500 means for the industry’s future.

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0:00.0	This summit allowed space to connect with people on the human level.
0:04.5	This woman sat down next to me and I was like, oh, what do you do?
0:07.4	She's like, oh, I'm the CEO of HubSpot.
0:09.3	And I was like, what?
0:10.6	She wasn't in the VIP area.
0:12.2	She was sitting next to me in the audience.
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1:13.5	top talent ready to help your business grow. The Biden administration was so anti-crypto.
1:22.1	I was like, oh my God, it's just like watching Blockbuster and Netflix is coming. And Blockbuster is not changing and doesn't know what to do.
1:30.3	And in fact, thinks that they're invincible.
1:32.3	This is like literally watching the U.S. deal with crypto.
1:35.3	And it's very nerve-wracking as an American.
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