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The Pomp Podcast

Yoni Assia, Founder & CEO of eToro: From the Army to an Award Winning Crypto Platform

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Yoni Assia is the Founder & CEO of eToro. In this conversation, Yoni and Anthony Pompliano discuss their backgrounds in the military and what they learned from those experiences, how eToro started and why Yoni got them into crypto, DAOs, and the future of eToro's US expansion. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

0:13.1

Yoni Asia is the founder and CEO of E. Toro. In this episode, we discussed our backgrounds in the military, how E. Toro got started, why Yoni helped build the colored coin project, how Yoni decided not to join Vitalik in building Ethereum, what his thought process was in getting E. Toro into crypto, and how Yoni is planning to expand into the United States. I really enjoyed this conversation,

0:38.5

and I hope you do as well. Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.

0:44.4

All opinions expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions, and do not

0:49.3

reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management. You should not

0:53.9

treat any opinion expressed by Pomp as a specific inducement to make a

0:57.8

particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of his opinion.

1:03.7

This podcast is for informational purposes only.

1:07.3

All right, guys, bang, bang, get ready.

1:15.9

I have a secret that I'm going to uncover for you a bunch of you guys are going to feel real dumb right now because you're about to hear about a company that you've

1:19.8

probably heard the name you have no clue what they do and you have definitely no clue how

1:23.9

big they are yoni's's here, CEO and founder.

1:28.0

Thank you very much for coming and agreeing to tell some of your secrets.

1:32.7

Thank you for having me, Palm, bang, bang.

1:36.2

All right.

1:36.9

So you're not American.

1:39.5

Most people don't know who you are.

1:41.1

Let's start from the very beginning in terms of your career and kind of how

1:45.6

you eventually get to starting I-Torro. Sure. So I'm in Israeli. All Israelis are badasses.

1:55.0

Born and raised in Israel. So a real one. Got my first chairs of a company for my Burmitsva.

2:02.9

So my father was also a CEO and a founder of a company, which was actually went public on

2:09.4

NASDAQ.

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