Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
Evidence policy
Every row below preserves an exact excerpt. Identified speakers are linked; unresolved voices are labeled and excluded from people counts.
Claim ledger
35 published records
01 / preference
“Yeah. Experiences, I would say, are definitely the number one thing to invest in.”
02 / commitment
“Yeah, I would say that 95% of my day job is evaluating cryptocurrency or blockchain-related companies, along with NFT-related stuff.”
03 / evaluation
“I didn't have any of the swiping stuff that was to date. Back in my day, it was a 24x24 icon on Twitter that we used for dating.”
04 / evaluation
“I don't think he had a commercial right in there but we were non-commercial. We weren't putting any ads in or anything so we used that.”
05 / commitment
“I was still building stuff. I built Zero and we decided to bring that. Mike Maser took that over as CEO and then we funded it at True.”
06 / preference
“We sit down with an entrepreneur. We listen to their ideas. We want it to be new, novel, and exciting.”
07 / preference
“The main thing is in-depth editorial, content that is worth reading, and a brand that you can trust to bring the best artists to you and explain why they're the best.”
08 / prediction
“When we started Revision3, the thinking there was that video was working online.”
09 / evaluation
“I look back and cringe at some of that stuff because you could just hear in my voice and the way I presented, especially in the earlier episodes, it wasn't in my DNA to be on camera.”
10 / evaluation
“Talking through where DeFi and how it's evolving and some of the new and interesting projects and more of that. It's going to be a lot of work, but this is the stuff I love to do because I feel like both of these industries are filled with confusion and a lot of hype.”
11 / evaluation
“For us, voting on content was helping us service the best stuff, and it was feeding back into our algorithm that would eventually recommend similar content to people.”
12 / preference
“I'm like, this is a fun little community. That is why I went in and bought a few of them at lower prices, and I'm okay with losing that money because there's no money to be lost.”
13 / evaluation
“There's a lot of people on crypto Twitter, not the groups that I run in, but if you just go a layer or two deeper, you'll see so much shilling, flipping, and trying to pump and dump.”
14 / preference
“Ben (the founder) and myself, when we sat down and we started planning out ecommerce—wanted to make sure there was a church and state line between editorial and ecommerce.”
15 / prediction
“There are so many aspects to this ecosystem, what NFTs bring to the table that you can't have with traditional art that I think is going to take another decade or so for people to really wrap their head around.”
16 / uncertainty
“Would you come on and run this? I don't know anything about raising from venture capitalists.”
17 / belief
“If you want to be in the hotel industry or work in gaming in some capacity, that was the place to be. But when I was around 18 or so, I realized, well, I should probably think about moving someplace else like Silicon Valley or someplace that had a bigger tech scene.”
18 / belief
“I'd have to go back and search Twitter. I think I first tweeted about Bitcoin in 2012.”
19 / belief
“Who are we to go try and force outcomes and do all the mean nasty things you read that other VCs can and have done in the past? I realized that working with True early on when I was going to sell to Google.”
20 / belief
“I think that I'm starting to see two individual worlds starting to separate a bit.”
21 / belief
“Listen, the best of the best from Proof, the big names will always make it to the main Modern Finance podcast. But if you want to hear about the new and upcoming artists that haven't broken out yet—but I think are really cool because of doing something unique and novel—you're going to find it on the Proof podcast, so it should be fun.”
22 / belief
“In my podcast and stuff that I do now, it's like, I'm always going back. I'll listen to an episode that I think is really important.”
23 / belief
“Mike Maser, who later became really good friends, reached out to me and was like, hey, I think you'd be great for this role.”
24 / commitment
“I think that you have to ask your question—this is happening in the NFT spaces as well—what are the real motivations of this project? So I will certainly miss some things that started off as a joke, eventually had real legs to them, and evolved into a place where they are innovating in some interesting capacity.”
25 / uncertainty
“I don't know if I've ever told the full thing, but I'll just do the quick version of it.”
26 / belief
“I think I was the most shy kid growing up and just didn't have a ton of friends in high school.”
27 / evaluation
“I think you guys did this best in the entire world of using content to enrich the value of purchasable goods.”
28 / evaluation
“It's seriously really good. I've listened to almost every episode. Like we talked about, the Beeple episode is so great.”
29 / evaluation
“It's interesting you feel like it's the first time since then because you look at all these theoretical waves since then that the media and VCs were calling the next big thing, some of which have been.”
30 / evaluation
“Implicit in what you're saying is the very same reason why the founders of some new groundbreaking consumer thing always have way more upside than any investors or anyone who comes later. It's because they were true believers in the thing for the value of the thing, even before it had any notion of being an investment.”
31 / evaluation
“The earliest people that have to do that, there's the most upside for them because they get to be early to that thing which could accrue them reputation or actual shares and whatever the new thing is, but it requires that leap.”
32 / preference
“It's like, here I own zero iPods and listen to my podcasts on Spotify who's actively suing Apple.”
33 / prediction
“I guess when I say at that time because Facebook now reaches three billion monthly active users, I think, if I have it right, you were out ahead of Facebook.”
34 / evaluation
“Finally, there's an incentive for artists to make incredibly cool stuff and rare stuff in a way that is totally driving the level of creativity and innovation here because there is actually now an incentive for it.”
35 / preference
“I'm so glad you're doing this because I would say I've been a late comer in almost everything in crypto.”