Former Barclays CEO’s Big Bet on Hyperliquid’s Explosive Growth | Bob Diamond & David Schamis
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In less than three years, a company with 10 employees and zero external capital have built what I think is the most exciting and probably fastest growing crypto exchange in the world.
The only token in the top 10 tokens that has not been around for a decade is hype. How did it get in the top 10? Because of the explosive growth, the success, the cash generation, the buyback program, all of these things mean this price has real appreciation ahead of it.
We are solving a scarcity problem by making this easily accessible through our digital asset treasury company that is that will be publicly listed on the NASDAQ,
the fastest growing token that is yield generating, that is part of the ecosystem with an incredible revenue generation, stealing market share from everyone. This is a very, very, very exciting investment.
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Great to be here, Felix.
Nice to be here.
Yeah, super excited. So for those that aren't aware of both of your backgrounds and how you ended up working towards developing a digital asset treasury company, I would love to hear about that journey because it's something that I've been hearing a lot about and seeing a lot more people that I don't know if you were both skeptics at one point in your career and then made that that conversion or just always been a believer, but I would just love to hear about that story of going from the Tratify world that you both represented and where you're at today.
There's no question we're both have been and continue to be trad fi people. We've both grown up in the financial services world. Our business Atlas Merchant Capital is a private equity firm, almost exclusively focused on investing in financial services businesses. We both started in sort of the investment banking world in different ways, but, it's impossible not to have gotten exposure to crypto over the years. I think in 2015 I bought my first Bitcoin. I did it in a Coinbase account that I still have. I should have bought more, like a lot of us. A couple of years later, Bob and I were on CNBC
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