Josh Frank (The Tie) on Crypto Market Intelligence (EP.638)
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Today on the show, I sat down with Josh Frank, the founder and CEO of TheTie, a company building a market intelligence platform for digital assets. This was a fun conversation that touched on the history of TheTie, a deep dive on some current events, as well as some prognostications for what's ahead for the industry. I think you'll enjoy this one. So without further ado, here's my conversation with Josh Frank from the tie. Matt
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down by Bad Mortgage Investments, Lehman, which has 25,000 employees, will be liquidated. The federal government loans American International Group, AIG, $85,000,000,000. This is a different kind of market, and the Fed is asleep. The federal government is stepping in to stabilize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage giants that have been threatened by the housing crisis. The
Bank of England has pumped £75,000,000,000 more into Britain's ailing economy with a new round quantitative easing. You
print a couple trillion dollars, and all of a sudden, people start to worry. So out of this worry, we have something called the Bitcoin Bitcoin.
Well, Josh, thanks so much for coming on the podcast. Thanks
for having me on. We'd
love to just start with a little bit of your background and maybe an overview of the tie.
I mean, my background is not the, most exciting thing in the world, but graduating college in 2017, started working in post trade settlement technology, which is riveting. Basically, spent my first few months resetting people's passwords, learning Swift, actually. So I did know Swift, which is also riveting. But as you can tell, you know, I wasn't the most excited about that. And this was, like, 2017. This is when you had a bunch of influencers on Twitter talking about whatever nonsense coins. I love to give the example of John McAfee, right, where he would just tweet out some random token and
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