Podcast

Zac Townsend is the Co-Founder & CEO at Meanwhile. Backed by Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, 6th Man Ventures, Gradient Ventures, & more, Meanwhile is creating the first and only life insurance company denominated in Bitcoin. Before building Meanwhile, Zac was an Associate Partner at McKinsey, Chief Data Officer of the State of California, Co-Founder & Head of Product at Standard Treasury, & CTO of the City of Newark. In this episode we discuss his path to conviction for launching Meanwhile, the various archetypes of who’s attracted to what they’re building, why they’re presently focused on Bitcoin, how they think about eventual differentiation as a first-mover, the interesting trajectories Meanwhile could take, & much more.

Chad Lynch is the Co-Founder of Loreum. Previously engineer #1 at Maple Finance, Chad is creating Loreum to explore the frontier of human coordination. Right now Loreum is building a DAO Governance protocol for EVM chains
, DAO capital formation tooling, and DAO labor market and productivity tooling. In this episode we discuss why Loreum is necessary given the current state of DAO’s, what ingredients have been missing to bring web3 into the next inning, and much, much more.

Kaledora Kiernan-Linn and Marco Antonio are the Co-Founders of Ostium. Backed by General Catalyst, WAGMI Ventures, LocalGlobe, & Alliance DAO, Ostium is building the first perpetuals decentralized exchange for real world assets. In this episode we chat through what it means to create a DEX built for RWA assets, what Ostium’s success ultimately could mean for the broader crypto space, the story behind their fascinating macro research, how to think about our current moment in crypto, Ostium’s progress thus far and upcoming launch timeline, & much more.

Keone Hon is the Co-Founder & CEO of Monad. Backed by Dragonfly, Monad is a decentralized, developer-forward Layer 1 smart contract platform that ushers in a new paradigm of possibility through pipelined execution of Ethereum transactions—crafted for productivity, fundamentally optimized. In this episode we discuss Keone’s perspective on where applications will find most traction, how they raised funds during the present market cycle, his thoughts on the future of crypto, & much more.

Michael Feng is the Co-Founder at Hummingbot. Backed by Initialized Capital, Slow Ventures, & more, Hummingbot is open source software that helps you build high-frequency crypto trading bots that specialize in market making and arbitrage strategies. They average $100M+ 24H volume, have 1M+ all-time downloads, and support 13+ HFT strategies. In this episode we dive deep on recently decentralizing their operations to HBOT token holders, why they restructured as a not-for-profit organization, the key differences between TradFi and crypto markets for traders, & much more.