Shaw: The Rise of ai16z’s Eliza—Crypto × AI Agents, a $2.5B Valuation, Trending Globally on GitHub
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You're now plugged in to the Delphi podcast. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Tommy, your host. And today, I'm thrilled to be joined by Shah, who is the founder of Eliza Labs and does a zillion events. I don't know how he keeps up. And I'm also joined by Ejaz, who's a friend who just started his fund 26 crypto capital, and he's been intimately involved with the liquid crypto AI scene. Shah, how's it going, man? Good good to have you on. Yeah,
man. Thanks for having me. You know, I'm out in Seoul, having a lot of fun on a little tour. So I'm glad to connect with you again and have a chat.
I love it. Ejaz, you gave Shaw a different title than the one I introduced. Could you repeat that? That was pretty good. Yeah. Before he went on
There's two titles. The man, the myth, the legend, and dGen Spartan AI's daddy. Yeah.
I'll take that one. It's
such a good phrase. You're you're a dad to a robot. I've
always wanted to have AI children. So,
so, Shah, it's great to have you back on. You, you shared a pretty crazy tweet I wanna start off the podcast with. Was you kinda shared your your journey from, you know, being you, being in debt, living in a small apartment, you know, wife getting mad at you, selling this thing out, getting some tokens. Like, can you maybe just walk us through the quick rundown of of how you got here? Because the story is pretty great.
Man. So, like, I've been in an open source dev for a long time. I I'll I'll start with one really crazy thing I didn't even mention there, which is, I I made an open source project that I really believed in, open spatial web project, like, end to end ability to launch worlds and put characters in them and do that whole thing. And I launched it with somebody who deleted me from the GitHub and sold it for $75,000,000, and I got nothing. And I was the chief dev, and he did not code a single fucking line of code, but, you know, sometimes that's how it works. And oh, yeah. I'm definitely suing him,
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