Why Perps Are Taking Over | Kaledora Kiernan-Linn
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Our view is the biggest opportunity in DeFi is not rebuilding the exchange stack from scratch, which is basically how everybody has approached trying to build out perps in crypto. It is taking these really liquid and highly functional existing markets that are working and massively extending their global reach and bringing the instant settlement and transparency benefits of what you would get on chain.
Alright, guys. Welcome back to another Thousand X Podcast. We've got a very special guest today, Kalidora, is the founder of Osteum, which is an awesome exchange that I wish I had invested in when she first called me because it is doing so well right now. You can trade basically anything on it, and I'm happy to have her on the podcast talking today. Thank you. Welcome to the podcast.
Thanks for having me, Avi. Yeah. Excited to here.
Yeah. I kind of wanted to start asking you about your background because you have a very interesting path into crypto. I think a lot of people, like when you ask them how they got into crypto or they got into finance, they're like, well, I graduated college and then I got a job at a finance company and then I hated it and then I left. And what happened with you is that you actually started on the stage of the Royal Danish Ballet. Did I get that right?
Yes, that's correct.
And you did five years of professional ballet performing under intense pressure,
and
then you pivoted to finance. And I kind of want to get your story. Maybe walk me through how all that happened.
Yeah. Definitely an unusual background. So that's correct. My first career was as a professional ballerina. I started dancing when I was three. I mean, you have to start training very, very young. And started dancing professionally after high school. I spent one year at Boston Ballet and then four years at the Royal Danish Ballet. And yeah, I mean, what to say? I think ballet prepares you in a lot of maybe surprising ways for being a founder. Obviously, that was not the intention. I pursued ballet single mindedly and was focused on that for twenty years, then went back to school and found my w
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