Matt Huang
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205 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Everything you just articulated is fair and right. There's a lot of value in people providing services around crypto custody. And most people don't want to have to be responsible for their own key material. But I think the important thing is to have the option, the option to exit is a really important check on the system.
And this is true in the information world too, where most people are going to use Gmail and Outlook for their email. But if you want to, you can go use ProtonMail or run your own mail server. And that option is important at the edges or in really unusual scenarios. And I think that insurance policy is just a very important thing to have in the system.
Two things come to mind. One is that, and maybe this is trite, but my mom was a PhD in computer science at Caltech under Carver Mead, very early to what would become the parallel computing revolution, and eventually a professor at Yale and BU, and she dropped all that to raise me and my brothers. For a long time, well, I wasn't even aware that there was another option.
And then for a long time, I was confused by that because she was at the beginning of something so interesting. But now, especially as a parent, I understand it much more. And I do think it was this ultimate act of kindness that me and my brothers tremendously benefited from.
And then the second, I think, is one of the kindest things anyone can do for anyone else is believe in them and to raise their future ambitions. And Doug Leone did that for me. Many other people did as well, but especially Doug. He had no need to do that, and I'll always be grateful to him for it.
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