Prasanna Sankar from 0xPPL

Speaker 0: Hi. This is the Deco podcast, and I'm your host, Saurabh. Before we begin, views expressed here are personal opinions. None of this is any kind of advice, let alone financial or legal. It's a conversation about things we find interesting.

My friend Joel joined me as a provost. In this episode, we talked to a brilliant and inspiring mind for industry, Prasadna Shankar. Like a lot of successful techies, Prasadna's journey started in India. Winning a coding competition landed him a job at Microsoft in the US. This is where he'd go on to find his first company, Like a Little, which was an anonymous dating network.

Rassanda has been a serial entrepreneur since. His next startup, Tripling, is now a DecoCom with a $13,000,000,000 valuation. Rassanda has been fascinated by crypto since a decade, but it took the summer of DeFi 2020 for him to cross the castle between web 2 and crypto to start 0 edge people. Prasanna shares deep insights derived from his experience of growing a web 2 consumer social network, how they are applicable to crypto, why he's all in on crypto at this point, and much more. Talking to people like Prasanna makes my conviction in crypto even stronger.

I found the 2 hour conversation inspiring. I hope you enjoy it. All right. On to the episode now. Let's begin with Prasanna's journey from India to US like many, many engineers do.

But what happened after he moved to US is kind of unique. So let's just learn from him. Welcome, Prasanna.

Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me, guys.

Speaker 0: Why don't we start with your journey from India to US? What prompted those decisions and what happened with you later on?

Speaker 1: Sure. Absolutely. So, I mean, I'm lucky to sort of stand out in a country of, like, a 1000000000 people. Right? You know, I didn't sort of focus at all on my academics.

I did a lot of programming contests during my college days. I was ranked number 1 in India. And, like, you know, out of that, I sort of was able to get a job in the US at Google and Microsoft out of my campus, which was my sort of first big delayed gratification win, you know, if if I may so say. You know, I took an offbeat bet. You know, it worked out in my favor, which gave me a lot more confidence.