Sean Mullaney

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1,197 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 23 Apr

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The Entrepreneur Experiment · Why 10x Goals Are Easier Than 10% Ones: 5 Scaling Secrets from Google X & Zalando with Sean Mullaney · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

And I'm like, just fascinated technically about it and just got really deep down the rabbit hole of it.

But at the time I was working at Stripe and I kept thinking to myself, like, what are the use cases that we could actually use this technology for?

And at the time, everyone was basically trying to create a crypto for X. Like, take any problem and just add the word crypto to it, and people would get excited.

Yeah, kind of.

It's exactly AI now.

But this is the difference I was going to say, is that with crypto, there wasn't really a user benefit for a product that ran on crypto versus a centralized database.

The use cases were very few and far between.

And so, you know, when I say to you, hey, Gary, I've got this new app I want you to use and it's crypto.

You're like, yeah, but how does it different as a user to an app that's not crypto?

And so obviously, you know, people have said, you know, payments.

Okay, well, payments, consumer payments.

Like, yeah, but how is this better than, you know, just using my credit card and tapping my phone?

You're like, it doesn't really help me as a consumer that much.

So that was one technology wave where everyone tried to apply it to 100 different problems.

And today, most people in business and most people in consumer aren't using products powered by crypto.

Where do you stand on crypto now?

I think crypto has some very interesting use cases, but they're more about global trade.

So I think if you look at Europe, for example, I can send you money instantly and for free between two mobile apps right now using the existing banking rails in Europe.

And I can do that to any European citizen.

So it doesn't really solve a problem for a day-to-day use case for Europeans.

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