Podcast

Aaron Rafferty and Martin Simms are the Co-Founders of StandardDAO. StandardDAO is all about supercharging, scaling, and securing the 3rd generation of the internet. In this episode we learn more about StandardDAO, discuss big-picture trends across web3, and hear advice for builders in web3.

Michael Marra is the Founder & CEO of Entre. Backed by Kube VC & angels like Dharmesh Shah (Co-Founder/CTO @ HubSpot), Entre is the fastest-growing online professional network of web3 professionals in the world. In this episode we discuss what’s missing with existing online professional networks like LinkedIn, how Entre bridges the gap between web2 and web3 for professionals, and how generosity and authenticity drives relationships and projects forward in web3.

Darshan Vaidya is the Co-Founder & CEO at Credora. Backed by Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, & more, Credora is building infrastructure for institutional credit—with its complete lending platform, counterparty credit ratings, & more. In this episode we discuss the advantages of data-driven lending relative to relationship-driven lending, the early challenges to adoption (and how they’ve successfully solved for those challenges), the promise of crypto’s potential for disintermediation (rather than decentralization), and much more.

Raullen Chai is the Co-Founder of IoTeX Network. Backed by Samsung Next, IoTeX is the leading decentralized network to power billions of machines at scale via machine economy (MachineFi) applications. In this episode we discuss the possibilities unlocked by bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) on-chain, their $100m fund working to back over 1,000 decentralized machine economy startups, and the broader MachineFi philosophy and how it’s concretely translated into their work.

Raj Parekh is the Co-Founder & CEO at Portal . Backed by Haun Ventures, Chapter One, Slow Ventures, & more, Portal enables you to launch a powerful and secure offering with a single integration for all of Web3 that gives your users direct access to the world of DeFi, NFTs, blockchain-based gaming, and more. In this episode we discuss Raj’s perspective on user experience in web3 given his background at Visa, his thoughts on the future of multi-party-computation and account abstraction, commentary on TradFi adoption and movement toward web3, interesting frontiers within the crypto space from his vantage point, and much more.