Kraken’s 10 Year Plan With Arjun Sethi
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Hey, that's crazy. You're either working for free or that I'm crazy enough to believe that like, we can hit those milestones over the next ten years. So I have a ten year period to be able to hit that. And so as I explained that to folks, they're like, okay, you basically don't get anything if we don't hit these milestones. So you're basically here to try to hit those milestones. And so if you're here over ten years to try to hit these extreme goals, then you get rewarded for it. And that means I'm trying to put people in place to be
able to hit those goals and sort of thinking bigger and bigger as we start executing it. Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell any investments or products. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and the views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice or necessarily the views of Blockworks. Our hosts, guests, and the Blockworks team may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed. Alright, everyone. Welcome back to Empire. I've been waiting for this episode for a long time. We had, Dave Ripley, the co CEO of K
Thanks for having me.
Yeah. Dude, I know nothing about you, so I wanted to start there. I I actually spoke with some of your cofounders at Tribe years ago. Yeah. What I know about you is you were an exec at Yahoo. You started TribeCap. I think you're partner with Chamath over at Social Capital.
That's right.
And now you are a co CEO of of Kraken. But I know other than that, I really know nothing about you. So I'd love to tell me about yourself, man.
I guess where do you want me to start?
I would like to understand, maybe we can actually just fast forward through your career into why you decided to take this role at Kraken.
Sure. Let's see. So I think I think, so actually, I'll tell you the the tribe story is pretty synonymous with Kraken as a whole. And so at Tribe, when we started the firm, we were When you think about venture capital, it's a very who you know versus what you know ecosystem. And I'm sure you've been through it as well where there's just a lot of folks that like ThinkVenture Capital and capital raising information is in a very specific way. And when you work at a company and you work on any product and you're making it better, you're thinking about testing an iteration, you have a hypothesis and
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