Tushar Jain of Multicoin on Crypto: Sovereign Software, Surviving a Brutal Winter and Seeing Through the Fog (EP.191)
I’m really excited to have special guest Tushar Jain on the pod. He’s the co-founder and managing partner of Multicoin. We talk about the current crypto market, what it was like in the 2018/19 bear market, and what we can expect with crypto/web3 on a 2 to 5 year time horizon. We discuss The Graph, Helium, and Render. We’re still at the beginning with crypto, which means volatility is here now, but the future is out there; we’ve been in a blackberry moment, web3’s iPhone moment is coming. This tech bear market we’re in right now may be the catalyst that gets people focused on the next big thing. Guest - Tushar Jain, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Multicoin howardlindzon.com, multicoin.capital Twitter: @howardlindzon, @PanicwFriends, @TusharJain_, @multicoincap, @knutjensen linkedin.com/in/tjain251 #fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance Show Notes: (00:37) - Intro (02:21) - Schmuck insurance (05:30) - Accelerating the adoption of sovereign software (07:28) - Ethereum - First big aha moment (10:02) - Starting an investment firm (14:41) - Timing crypto tops and bottoms (16:58) - Betting on The Graph (24:55) - Defining web3 (25:28) - Censorship resistant, neutral, permissionless (25:44) - No toll, no excess rents (27:12) - Your private key is the most important thing (29:37) - The Helium business model for deploying networks (40:04) - Everyone's trying to build the smartphone equivalent of web3 (40:35) - A clear vision for crypto (43:24) - Excited about UXD (44:56) - Semiconductors, Mining, and Compute (47:00) - Closing thoughts