Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong talks about the state and evolution of crypto with Katherine Wu and Justin Mart. - - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.
Paris Hilton is one of today’s most recognizable entrepreneurs and international influencers, Paris Hilton is a pioneer in television, podcasting and NFTs and an innovator in building businesses, social media and celebrity branding.
With annual press valued at $702M in media spend equivalency, 28B monthly PR impressions, 130,000 press mentions over the last year alone and a global audience of over 54M across all socials, Hilton continues to solidify herself as a prominent tastemaker and powerful business leader.
Since starring in “The Simple Life,” Hilton has built a global empire as a businesswoman, influencer, activist, DJ, designer, investor, recording artist, philanthropist, host, actress, chef, model and author.
In 2006, she created Paris Hilton Entertainment (now known as 11:11 Media), a multi-billion-dollar company that started with 45 branded stores and 19 product lines surpassing $4 billion in revenue.
Today, 11:11 Media is a full-stop, integrated media and product company with verticals covering TV (Slivington Manor Entertainment), podcasts (London Audio), digital (11:11 Digital), licensing, NFTs, music, impact and more.
Always attuned to emerging trends and opportunities, Hilton continues to expand 11:11 Media and use her platform to inspire, empower and create lasting positive impact.
Hilton has also solidified herself as an NFT leader as was recently seen by her being named #7 on Forbes’ NFT 50 most influential people in NFTs and through being awarded “Winner of Best Charity NFT” at the 2020 NFT Awards.
In staying true to her goal of fostering empowerment and in collaboration with Sevens Foundation, Paris curated and launched “Empowered By Paris: Empowered Women Empower Women Exhibition”, which is an NFT exhibit dedicated to showcasing and equipping female artists with a platform to succeed.
Moderator Carter Reum is a Partner and Co-Founder of M13, a venture capital platform that invests in and incubates cutting edge consumer technology businesses. M13 now has two top decile funds and recently launched a $400MM Fund III - M13 now has AUM of over $750MM and is currently launching its 10th incubated business.
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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
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Our friends at the Global Sports Venture Studio (GSVS) hosted a great discussion on NFT's and the future of fandom.
NBA Top Shot has become a massive success story in a short period. In some ways, NFT's are just getting noticed, but in other ways, the future is very bright ahead.
Kyle Bunch, VP, R/GA Ventures and Managing Director of GSVS moderates a panel featuring:
* Rahul Sood, CEO of Unikrn, Board Member and Investor in ZED.run
* Caty Tedman, Head of Partnerships for Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot)
* Rusty Mateev, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Calaxy
* Matt Woodward, Founder of NFT collectible HypeSneakrs
The Episode of Everything: Balaji on Bitcoin and Ethereum, Media Self-Defense, Drone Warfare, Crypto Oracles, India as Dark Horse, The Pseudonymous Economy, Beautiful Trouble, Ramanujan, Life Extension, and More...
Over time, there is increasing potential for the use of blockchain, bitcoin and crypto in sports and entertainment, including but not limited to athletes, digital memorabilia, ticketing, sports betting, esports, gaming and payments.
How will blockchain, bitcoin or any cryptocurrency apply to the future of sports and entertainment?
In July 2019, CEO Brian Armstrongshared the backstory of Coinbase and the mission, vision and strategy ahead.
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