Since 1929, the Monaco Grand Prix has been one of the world's premier racing events and today's Formula One course follows mostly the same route across the city-state along the French Riviera.
- - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.
Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch, former YC partner and investor talks with Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase and partner at a16z, about a wide range of topics, including:
-startup and cloud cities
-silicon valley
-decentralization
-crypto
-media tech
-social networking
-china
-machine learning
-digital privacy
-creator economy
-remote work
-network state
-wokeness
-future
0:00 Intro
1:04 City-building, the reverse diaspora and the tech solar eclipse
22:00 Woke, Communist and crypto capital Pt. I
37:56 China’s reform, Deng Xiaoping and FDA
55:40 The decentralization and unbundling of big tech
1:12:14 Crowd choice, remote work and the network state
1:24:29 Woke, Communist and crypto capital Pt. II
1:36:19 Our future is our past
Conversation with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Lex Fridman
June 2021
1:19 - Shiba Inu story18:35 - Regulation22:48 - Crime27:54 - Proof of stake vs proof of work40:44 - Miner extractable value46:20 - Scaling47:43 - Bitcoin blocksize wars53:51 - Hard fork vs soft fork57:34 - Craig Wright1:04:18 - Scaling: Sharding1:11:07 - Scaling: Rollups1:19:30 - Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies1:27:11 - Merging PoS and PoW chains1:36:49 - Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents1:45:35 - Bitcoin vs Ethereum1:51:30 - Dogecoin1:57:38 - Elon Musk2:00:15 - Chainlink2:03:35 - Charles Hoskinson and Cardano2:11:09 - AI safety2:16:08 - NFTs2:18:58 - Scams2:28:34 - Longevity2:37:55 - Does death give meaning to life?2:43:38 - Lex and Vitalik speak Russian2:47:29 - Meaning of life2:52:48 - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and WWII
- - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.
