FUTURATI PODCAST
Episodes
Episode 172: Capitalism Evolving—or Collapsing | Any Hines
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How will capitalism evolve—or collapse—in the coming decades? Futurist, academic, and author Andy Hines joins us to discuss his latest book, "Imag...
Ep. 171: China, Communism, and Bitcoin | Roger Huang
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Huang "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?" is the authoritative resource exploring Bitcoin’s disruptive intersection with Chinese history. Huang not only...
Ep. 170: The story of the first AGI | David Jilk
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Jilk joins us for round two! After finishing MIT, David founded eCortex, a company that wound up being a solid 20 years ahead of the curve on de...
Ep. 169: Fractal University, Scenius, and the future of higher ed. | Andrew Rose
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Rose is one of the founders of Fractal University, whose mission is to democratize enjoyable, lifelong education and public research culture by...
Ep. 168: Should we put AI in charge of governance? | Roko Mijic
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roko Mijic is a self-described radical centrist, transhumanist, and rationalist who is probably most famous for inventing "Roko's Basilisk," a thought...
Ep. 167: Are games the key to building AGI? | Julian Togelius
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Togelius is an associate professor of computer science at New York University. His research lies at the intersection between computational inte...
Ep. 166: The story of SpaceX | Eliana Sherriff
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly a decade in TV news, Eli quit her job to become a full-time space journalist, creating content on YouTube and X. She spends most of her t...
Ep. 165: Existential risk, existential hope, and the secrets to winning at life. | James Norris
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All his life, James has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has ...
Ep. 164: The frontiers of neuromorphic quantum computing | Clifford Mapp
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clifford Mapp is the global head of ecosystem development and information security at Dynex, the world’s only accessible neuromorphic quantum comput...
Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder and former CEO of Waymark. With a background in philosoph...
Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nat Eliason began as a successful marketer and the founder of Growth Machine before turning to writing full-time. He recently published "Crypto Confid...
Ep. 161: Bitcoin is resistance money | Andrew Bailey
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andrew M. Bailey Andrew is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Professor of Hum...
Ep. 160: What makes generative AI so powerful? | Nick Frosst
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Frosst is a computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, which is a company focused on training large language models and making them a...
Ep. 159: Top AI Trends for 2024 | David Shapiro
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tu...
Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a long career as a software engineer and data scientist, John became an independent researcher in artificial intelligence. Today he focuses on a...
Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center, where he holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is ...
Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record...
Ep. 155: The history of invention | Anton Howes
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Anton Howes is a historian of invention. He is currently writing a book on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, and is official histor...
Ep. 154: How the government works (and why you should care). | Daniel Golliher
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After graduating with a degree in government from Harvard, Daniel Golliher founded a civics school called Maximum New York, anchored in New York City....
Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dwarkesh Patel is a renowned podcaster who has hosted interviews with luminaries like Marc Andreesen, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Grant Sanderson. He's bes...
Ep. 152: Building the future at venture studios | Taylor Black
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Black is a cross-functional team leader and seasoned entrepreneur passionate about driving innovation and growth. As a co-founder of Fizzy Vent...
Ep. 151: Opening the final frontier--for everyone | Emery Gunselman
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emery Gunselman is a former astrodynamics engineer and is currently a Satellite Operations Product Owner at Morpheus Space. Morpheus Space is disrupti...
Ep. 150: Conservative futurism--oxymoron, or the way forward? | Jim Pethokoukis
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Pethokoukis is a senior fellow and the DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he analyzes US economic policy, wr...
Ep. 149: Blockchain forensics and the war in Ukraine | Nicholas Smart
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Smart has 15 years' experience as a professional intelligence and security analyst working for government agencies and private companies, cov...
Ep. 148: Makin' it rain (with science) | Augustus Doricko
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Augustus Doricko is a former Berkley Data Scientist who went on to co-found Terra Seco, a company that uses cutting-edge technology to help with water...
Ep. 147: Could heuristic imperatives solve the AI alignment problem? | David Shapiro
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Shapiro is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning Ch...
Ep. 146: Will AI replace humans? | Peter St Onge
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter St Onge is a Ph.D. economist at the Heritage Foundation, a Mises Institute Fellow, and a former MBA professor in Taiwan. His approach to economi...
Ep. 145: The free market can fund scientific research | Terence Kealey
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor u...
Ep. 144: The next generation of batteries | Dr. Qichao Hu
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Qichao Hu serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of SES. He is the recipient of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators U...
Ep. 143: Evolution, values, and AI Safety | Quintin Pope
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quintin Pope is a computer science graduate student at Oregon State University, and an alignment researcher focusing on methods of instilling human-co...
Ep. 142: Privacy and data sovereignty with blockchain | Zenobia Godschalk
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zenobia Godschalk is an entrepreneur and the senior vice president of Hedera, a fully open-source public distributed ledger that utilizes the fast, fa...
Ep. 141: Entrepreneurship in the final frontier | Scott Tibbitts
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Tibbits is a leader, inventor, and founder of both Starsys Research and The Center for Space Entrepreneurship. He was the recipient of the "Espr...
Ep. 140: The power of human ingenuity | Robert Hendershott
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Hendershott is a finance professor, hedge fund CIO, and evangelist for a philosophy he calls "ingenuism". Ingenuism comes from the thesis that ...
Ep. 139: Biomarkers and personalized medicine | Mohit Jain
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mohit Jain is a physician-scientist with more than 20 years of expertise in physiology, biomedicine, engineering, computational biology, and mass ...
Ep. 138: There's still so much potential for web3 | Julian Rodriguez
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Rodriguez is a serial entrepreneur, product manager, and innovation-focused strategist with a passion for leading teams that build easy-to-use ...
Ep. 137: AI is changing software development. Here's how. , Matt Genovese
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Check out Matt's other podcasts: https://planorama.design/podcast Use this link for early access to sinfonia: https://sinfonia.site Matt Genovese is ...
Ep. 136: The case for taking AI Safety seriously | Rob Miles
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Through a series of popular explainer videos, Rob has become one of the most prominent voices in the AI safety community, exploring topics like crypto...
Ep. 135: Navigating the spacefaring economy | Elizabeth Varghese
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Varghese is well known as a futurist, humanist, and thinker on the topic of space exploration. She leads the People in Space business at Del...
Ep. 134: Cleaning fossil fuels and the energy transition | Noel Carroll
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noel Carroll took the helm of Biofriendly in March of 2018. As its Chief Executive Officer, he focuses on modernizing the company and pushing it towar...
Ep. 133: Supercharging AI applications with SuperAnnotate | Tigran Petrosyan
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tigran Petrosyan is a physicist turned tech enthusiast and entrepreneur who is passionate about building comprehensive teams and making products peopl...
Ep. 132: The era of personalized AI is here | Suman Kanuganti
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suman Kanuganti is the co-founder and CEO at Personal.ai, a company that is reinventing human-to-human messaging by leveraging AI that helps people co...
Ep. 131: Decentralization, 5G, smart cities, and the internet of things | Timothy Kravchunovsky
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Kravchunovsky is an experienced network engineer who has decades of experience in consulting and entrepreneurship. Today, he's the CEO of Chirp, w...
Ep. 130: Should we halt progress in AI? | Zvi Mowshowitz
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player, a former trader and market maker in both traditional and non-traditional markets,...
Ep. 129: Applying the 'security mindset' to AI and x-risk | Jeffrey Ladish
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
effrey Ladish runs a security company called Gordian Research which provides operational security consulting services, and he spends his remaining tim...
Ep. 128: Silicon Valley Bank, the Balajis bet, price theory, AI | Thomas and Trent
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas and Trent talk about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Balaji Srinivasan's bet on Bitcoin and hyperinflation, the CFTC’s lawsuit ag...
Ep. 127: Powering the space economy with AI and an interplanetary internet | Chris Mattmann
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Mattmann is the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as the Division Manager of the AI, Analy...
Ep. 126: microbiomes, mycology, and the next major pandemic. | Mahmoud Ghannoum
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is a tenured Professor and Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospital...
Ep. 125: Revolutionizing education with knowledge avatars | Emiliano De Laurentiis
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emiliano De Laurentiis is a trained cognitive psychologist with a lifelong interest in lifelong learning, and an impressive record of using technology...
Ep. 124: How can companies stay innovative? | Alex Goryachev
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Goryachev is the former managing director of Cisco’s global Co-Innovation Center, where he spearheaded programs and initiatives to accelerate i...
Ep. 123: Is ChatGPT going to take all the jobs? | Trent Fowler & Thomas Frey
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight Thomas and Trent are bringing you a solo episode. In recent weeks, the internet has exploded with talk of the incredible tools released by Ope...
Ep. 122: Complexity theory and the future of civilization | Jane Gatsby
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Gatsby is a complexity theorist and political philosopher. Her digital series “Wonderland” explores philosophy and political theory from firs...
Ep. 121: Is Quantum Computing a Threat to Bitcoin? | Michael Strike
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Michael Strike was a computer architec...
Ep. 120: Quantum computing explained | Anastasia Marchenkova
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Anastasia Marchenkova has been a resea...
Ep. 119: Complex systems, futurism, and beaming power down from space. | Roger Spitz
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Share this episode with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe! Roger Spitz is co-author of the forthcoming book The Definitive Guide to Thriving...
Ep. 118: Could this be the next big application for drones? | Alex Bäcker
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Share this episode with your friends, and don’t forget to subscribe! Alex Bäcker is an entrepreneur, speaker, and technologist who invented remote...
Ep. 117: Artificial intelligence, digital twins, and China | Handel Jones
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Share this episode with your friends, and don’t forget to subscribe! Handel Jones has over 50 years of experience in the electronics industry and ha...
Ep. 116: Bitcoin is Venice. | Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers. Allen...
Ep. 115: Bringing crypto to everyone | Defi Danny
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Defi Danny bills himself as 'the crypto simplifier', and he is an educator who specializes in breaking down the complexities of blockchain technologie...
Ep. 114: Scaling Synthesis and tools for thought | Rob Haisfield
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Rob Haisfield is a behavioral strategi...
Ep. 113: What's the state of artificial intelligence (and should we be afraid?) | Steve Kommrusch
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before receiving his Ph.D. in 2022, Steve earned over 30 patents in the field of computer hardware design working on silicon chips for computer graphi...
Ep. 112: The future of leadership | Jacob Morgan
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Jacob Morgan is a trained futurist and...
Ep. 111: Human-to-human interfaces and collective intelligence | Malcolm Ocean
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Malcolm Ocean is a software engineer a...
Ep. 110: Bitcoin and climate change | Margot Paez
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Margot Paez is a physicist and climate...
Ep. 109: Don't be a feminist. | Bryan Caplan
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He's written "The Myth of the Rational Vote...
Ep. 108: Are we close to a technological singularity? | Trent Fowler
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends. Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author,...
Ep. 107: How to invest in emerging technologies. | Rohit Krishnan
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends. Rohit Krishan is a venture capitalist and a writer ...
Ep. 106: Neurotech and the future of law | Allan McCay
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Allan McCay is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School. He coordinat...
Ep. 105: Is this the future of bitcoin mining? | Josh Moore
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends. At the age of eighteen, Josh Moore was working for a...
Ep. 104: Fixing healthcare with decentralized applications | Leah Houston
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Help us grow by liking this episode, sharing it, and subscribing to the podcast! Leah Houston, MD, practiced emergency medicine across the US for near...
Ep. 103: Mining bitcoin with the ocean will get us to Kardashev I | Nathaniel Harmon
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nathaniel attended the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa for both his undergrad and graduate education ultimately receiving an M.S. in Marine Geology and G...
Ep. 102: Genetic engineering and the biological basis of intelligence. | Steven Hsu
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the discovery of genetics, people have dreamed of being able to correct diseases, select traits in children before birth, and build better human...
Ep. 101: Asteroid mining and the future of space. | Joel Sercel
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, leaving us a review, and sharing it with your friends! It's been said t...
Ep. 100: Thomas and Trent look back on 100 episodes!
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Tonight we're doing something differen...
Ep. 99: What is the future of money? | Kirk Hutchison
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Money has a long history, beginning wi...
Ep. 98: How humans came to see (and shape) the future. | Byron Reese
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Whether it's pondering the mysteries o...
Ep. 97: Could bitcoin mining fix climate change? | Troy Cross
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this podcast, help us grow by sharing it with your friends! It's become commonplace to hear politicians and commentators bemoaning the e...
Ep. 96: How will bitcoin change the world? | Jack Ronaldi
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this podcast, help us grow by sharing it with your friends! Since the release of bitcoin there has been a great deal of ink spilled by pe...
Ep. 95: Pandemics, population decline, and the Fermi Paradox. | Robin Hanson.
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! As futurists, Thomas and Trent take a...
Ep. 94: fiction, flow, and imagining the impossible. | Steven Kotler.
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Flow is a well-known and valuable psychological state in which time seems to drop away and you become completely immersed in the present moment. Thoug...
Ep. 93: NFTs and the art of the future. | Michael Maizels
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a tremendous amount of chatter over the past year about NFTs--how they're a scam, how they'll usher in a new era of democratized web3 f...
Ep. 92: The psychology of ambition, achievement, and greatness. | Gena Gorlin
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to Vitalik Buterin and the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto, some of the most influential and impactful people in the world are ...
Ep. 91: Building cities on the high seas. | Patri Friedman
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From monarchy to laissez-faire capitalism, from communism to anarchism, much has been written advocating for different political philosophies. Though ...
Ep. 90: Can we build an immortal human society? | Samo Burja
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Samo Burja is a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies. His research work ...
Ep. 89: Bitcoin is crucial to U.S. national security. | Matt Pines
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months there has been a flurry of activity in the government related to cryptoassets, how to regulate them, and what their implications for ...
Ep. 88: We need to scale the blockchain. Here's how. | Jeremy Clark
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Clark is an associate professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, where he holds the Catallaxy Industrial Researc...
Ep. 87: What's the blockchain good for? [2022] | Scott Ruoti
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Check us out at https://futuratipodcast.com/ Scott Ruoti is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, where he focuses on security and p...
Ep. 86: Space exploration (and why it matters) | Sarah Cruddas
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Cruddas is a space journalist, international TV host, and award winning author. She has an academic background in astrophysics and is a global t...
Ep. 85: Is Monero better than Bitcoin? Nam Sardar thinks so.
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nam Sardar is the founder and CEO of Neel Capital, a returns-focused cryptoasset investment firm that combines fundamental analysis with an active man...
Ep. 84: Russia, cybercrime, and the future of war, with Rik Ferguson.
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rik Ferguson is vice president of security research at Trend Micro and is actively engaged in studying online threats and the underground economy. He ...
Ep. 83: Science, business, and the coming revolution in smart homes, with Gary Rockis.
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past several years, Gary Rockis has been highly successful in providing leadership in collaborative efforts among business, industry, and edu...
Ep. 82: Will bitcoin become a global reserve currency, with Eric Yakes.
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Yakes graduated with a double major in finance and economics from Creighton University, and 3 years later earned his CFA charter. He began his ca...
Ep. 81: Nathan Young on forecasting, prediction markets, and designing good policy.
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Young is a corporate strategist and marketing expert who has been exceptionally active in the Effective Altruism movement, the prediction marke...
Ep. 80: George Selgin on monetary economics and cryptocurrency.
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor e...
Ep. 79: John Spencer on the future of space tourism.
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Spencer is a pioneering outer space architect with design awards from NASA for his work on the International Space Station (ISS). He is the found...
Ep. 78: Elaine Pofeldt on building a very small, very profitable business.
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Pofeldt is an independent journalist and speaker specializing in careers and entrepreneurship. In 2018 she published a well-received book calle...
Ep. 77: Velina Tchakarova on geopolitics, energy economics, and the Russian of Ukraine.
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Velina Tchakarova is the Director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. Her work includes research, co...
Ep. 76: Samo Burja on Russia, Ukraine, and the new, emerging global order.
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Samo Burja is a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies. His research work ...
Ep. 75: Michael Cushman on materials science, synthetic biology, and AI-powered education.
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Cushman is the former president of Engaging Change, head of strategy at the Garlic Media Group, and the managing director of the consulting ar...
Ep. 74: Lyn Alden on inflation, investing, and cryptocurrencies.
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lyn Alden began her career as an electrical engineer in the aviation industry before pivoting full-item into investment. Featured across major media a...
Ep. 73: Trent Fowler explains how the blockchain works.
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. As someone who's worked at several crypto startups, he has y...