Zaheer Ebtikar

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444 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing · Why Plasma Bet Everything on USDT When Nobody Believed in Stablecoin Chains | Zaheer Evtakar, Plasma · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

I really, you know, wanna emphasize as much as possible that people really like to hold on to the past version of what is happening.

So there's very few times that you'll end up finding investors are at the forefront of a new technology, even if they claim they are.

Um and I'm an investor, you know, that that was my kind of you invest in people that do it, right.

Right.

Well and I ironically, I mean when I was when I was, you know, uh r running a fund and and you know, angel investing and that sort of thing, I thought I, you know, kinda had it all figured out until I started building my own and then I realized I was like, wow, like I had no idea what I was talking about when I was talking to these teams, right?

And and i it felt so patronizing in in a sense, right?

So um I think, you know, broadly speaking investors are always somewhat late to the game.

Um and the products themselves so

Or a lot of times early.

So when hyperliquid kind of came out, everyone was telling them the same thing.

We've seen this before, DYDX didn't really work out.

You know, why would this be any different?

And then it's like now the most valuable thing that we've created in this space, I would say, in the last couple of years.

Um and very much the same thing.

Even when we were started off in the neobanking like, so you know, we have Plasma One out or new you know, mainstream neo neobank.

Um, a lot of people were like, We already have this, we already have Venmo, why do I need this?

right and you already see like massive growth in there just a short amount of time.

Um and I think that kind of just goes to show that there's always going to be this like push pull effect and this lagging effect when it comes to investor and market sentiment versus I think um you know where you kinda want to be as a as a as a builder.

Yeah, I mean at the expense of sounding arrogant, um and and really I it really is very annoying, um because it's like it's not really like reflected in like let's tell let's say in like in like the public weightgeist as much.

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