How Venture Is Navigating Crypto IPOs Featuring Rob Hadick & Diogo Mónica
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I think in my mind, back to meme coins, maybe the speculative activity and all the energy there goes to something that is way more productive, which is real companies and crypto building real businesses. And now you can have whatever AMC like speculative activity on them, but on chain and with real business behind. That'll be really cool. Instead of meme coins, we'd be trading, like, crypto low market cap companies. That'd be much, much, much more productive. But it also solves the problem that we currently are talking about, which is can you IPO a company that has under, $500,000,000 of run r
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It's crazy. Lots of scrolling. Trying to keep up. Yes.
Yes. If you wanna see a group more egotistical than us, it's tough to find. We were just spending five minutes googling ourselves, so
that is how we like to start. I didn't fucking Google myself.
We were showing the worst pictures of each other. So at least that.
Alright, guys. Welcome. Rob is a, Rob is a partner of Dragonfly. People don't know. Diogo is partner at, Han Ventures, also one of the cofounders of Anchorage. We've had his cofounder Nathan on the show. Diogo, what are you doing these days?
Lots of investing, lots of stable coins even though I guess my feeling is, now that everybody's excited about investing in stables, maybe I shouldn't be investing in it anymore. It's too hot. It's too exciting. But spend the majority of my time, deploying capital. My description is not a venture capitalist. I am an engineer that, that deploys capital. I see Rob shaking his
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