ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Avichal is a co-founder and partner on the investment team at Electric Capital, an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. Before starting Electric Capital, Avichal was a serial entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook. He also served as a part-time partner at YCombinator and has been a successful VC and crypto investor for many years. Follow Avichal on Twitter @avichal and learn more about his firm at electriccapital.com.
[2:18] – How Avichal’s childhood primed him to become a successful serial software entrepreneur
[7:24] – Why crypto poses disruption for Web 2.0 incumbents
[13:39] – Predicting how Facebook and Google will transition into the Web 3.0 future
[22:08] – Takeaways from working with world-changing founders like Zuckerberg & Page
[29:36] – Transforming education through online learning
[37:40] – Measuring where we are in crypto’s adoption lifecycle
[44:46] – Weighing crypto investments against their probabilities of success
[50:38] – Evaluating token economics for crypto investments
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