Alex Lin (Reforge) on On-chain Innovation & Consumer Use Cases (EP.584)
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This is Wyatt from Castle Island. And today on the podcast, I was joined by Alex Lin, founding partner of Reforge. Having launched earlier this year, Reforge is a venture capital firm focused on investing in the next generation of blockchain and deep tech infrastructure. Without further ado, I hope you enjoy my conversation with Alex.
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print a couple $1,000,000,000,000, and all of a sudden, people start to worry. So out of this worry, we have something called the Bitcoin Bitcoin. Alex, thanks for joining me. I'm excited to have you on the pod for a while. I think it would probably be great to start with, personal introduction. So would love to hear more about you and what you're up to these days and your road in crypto. First
of all, thanks for having me on. Huge fan of the podcast. I think we can kind of go back to college. I went to the Virginia Military Institute. And for a long time on the website, the banner would say, Don't do ordinary, which encapsulated a lot of my experience there. You're going to a school that requires you to dress up in a uniform, requires you to go through intense, rigorous physical training. But then at the end of it all, you might not commission in the military. A lot of people have asked me over time, why did you go to VMI if you didn't commission as an officer? And I think it just k
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