WOMEN WHO WEB3: Creating More CEOs For the Future of Crypto and DeFi, With Sheila Warren
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CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Warren is the inaugural CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, the premier global alliance advancing crypto innovation worldwide. She co-hosts “Money Reimagined,” a popular CoinDesk podcast, is an adviser to the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web and the Near Foundation, serves on the Steering Committee of the DeFi Education Fund and is an early-stage investor across the Web3 ecosystem.
Previously, Sheila founded the blockchain and digital assets team at the World Economic Forum, a major international and nongovernmental organization committed to improving the state of the world, where she served as a member of the Executive Committee. As the deputy global head of the Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, she oversaw strategy across 16 countries to advance the adoption of new technologies in the global public interest.
Sheila graduated from Harvard College, earned her Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School, and began her career as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which has been one of the premier U.S. law firms for two centuries.
Kamz and Sheila discuss:
🏦The intersection of regulation and decentralization
💲What is DeFi (decentralized finance)!?
👭The benefits of DeFi for women
💱How crypto contributes to an equitable web3 space
⛑️The hidden power of “soft” skills
🧘🏽♀️We end with a 4-minute meditation you can use to take a mental break!
See also: The Crypto Council for Innovation
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Check out my blog on Mirror for content on women, wellness and web3.
This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with executive producer Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is ‘Twennysomething’ by Daniele Musto. Other music used is ‘Mind and Soul’ by Stefano Vita and ‘Electrolove’ by Lunareh.
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| 0:52.9 | Welcome to CoinDest's Women Who Web3 podcast, your weekly podcast celebrating women supporting women, investing in women, and bridging the gender gap in wealth through Web3. |
| 1:04.2 | What gets you up in the morning? What motivates you and drives you? |
| 1:08.3 | Two of the reasons that are very near and dear to my heart is that Web3 |
| 1:12.1 | needed more women and it was just not user-friendly. Each week we'll be learning from powerful |
| 1:18.0 | women sharing their insights on topics. I guess everybody was shocked that I left Amazon to go to a |
| 1:23.1 | startup. There was an article that was published. I think it was in the New York Times. And we ended up getting, I don't know, 1,500 job applicants. |
| 1:30.3 | And we have how-toes from founders and builders who have been there and done that. |
| 1:35.3 | And CAMS, when we looked at them, only 2% were women. |
| 1:39.3 | He was a huge fan of my show and he was like a little bit starstruck when he was asked to be on the show. |
| 1:44.7 | I had this sinking feeling because I was like, oh boy, he's not going to like me after this interview because I had all of these tough questions for him. |
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