Podcast

Brett Gibson is the Managing Partner at Initialized Capital. Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture firm that champions some of today’s most inspired and obsessive builders and thinkers, with 27+ unicorns (like Coinbase, Instacart, & Flexport), $3.2b in assets under management, and 175+ portfolio companies. In this episode we discuss Brett’s fascinating journey from software engineer to early YC founder to Managing Partner at Initialized Capital, the investment thesis for crypto at Initialized, what’s most exciting these days across the crypto landscape from Brett’s unique vantage point, how to interpret the present moment in crypto, his most generalizable advice for crypto founders (from an investor perspective), and much, much more.

Bryce Ferguson & Jack Kearney are the Co-Founders of Turnkey. Backed by Sequoia, Variant, Coinbase, & Exponent, Turnkey enables developers to spin-up thousands of wallets and sign millions of transactions, all without compromising on security. In this episode we discuss the preceding steps to launching Turnkey (and how they reached conviction on the opportunity), earliest challenges and surprises (and how their team navigated both), how crypto’s changed in the intervening years since their entrance to the space, & much more.

Ryan Bozarth is CEO and Co-Founder of Dakota a modern, crypto-native banking platform allowing companies to easily accept and make payments in USD or crypto, operate globally, and generate yield automatically. Ryan shares his journey in crypto, from working as Head of Product at Anchorage, CEO of Coinbase Custody, to founding Dakota, building a stellar team across fintech, traditional finance, and crypto security to deliver modern business banking powered by crypto.

Yitong Zhang is CEO and Co-Founder of Agora. Backed by Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Consensys Ventures, among others, Agora is a cross-chain platform that offers a new standard of on-chain governance for protocols. Yitong discusses how Agora is simplifying on-chain governance and developing tooling for the future state of token-backed voting and collective governance.

Annabelle Huang is a Managing Partner at Amber Group. Backed by Sequoia, Dragonfly, Paradigm, Pantera, & more, Amber Group is building the future of digital assets—with $1 trillion in traded volume, 150+ countries supported, 1k institutional clients, and $500m in returns generated for investors worldwide. In this episode we chat through Annabelle’s journey from TradFi into digital assets, how Amber adapted to the bear market, what gets her most excited about the future of Amber Group, her perspective on the evolution of crypto over time, her most generalizable advice for crypto executives, & much more.