Fred Hsu and Michael Ho (D3) on Creating Efficient Domain Name Markets (EP.614)
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This is Wyatt from Castle Island, and today on the podcast, I was joined by Fred Hsu and Michael Ho, founders of d three. D three is building the first unified platform to allow domain name to trade and exist as tokenized real world assets in place of the current fragmented domain name landscape. I hope you enjoy this episode. Matt
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and Michael from d three, thanks for joining us on the podcast today. Really excited to chat. I think it'd be helpful to kick off with backgrounds. Brad, if maybe you wanna go first, and then Michael would love to hear about you personally and what you're working on in this space. Thanks
for having me or us, Wyatt. My name is Fred Hsu, CEO and cofounder of d three. A little bit about my background, I'm like a domain OG. What does that mean? Pioneered a lot of the old domain services like .com, Net, domain names back in the day, including stuff like aftermarket brokerage, domain monetization, also known as parking. Did a lot of the domain portfolio management in the February. I started a company based in LA called Ovrsea, which kinda directly informed me on some areas to build over at d three, plus, of course, the blockchain side. So we got to call this my unfinished business i
Wyatt. Nice to be here. My name is Michael Ho. I'm a cofounder and Cbo at b three as well. Cofounded the company of Fred. I spent most of my career in traditional finance in the financial markets. So worked really early on at Goldman Sachs with some of the largest Internet and tech businesses across very strategic transactions, which include m and a and capital markets, so raising debt and equity for them. And through that time period, I was able to observe firsthand the rapid rise of software and Internet enabled platforms that have really minimized user friction, how quickly they grew and se
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