The Pomp Podcast
Episodes
#467 Lauren Johnson on the Performance Mindset
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Johnson is the Mental Conditioning Coordinator at the New York Yankees, where she is responsible for aiding in the development of athletes and ...
#466: Cliff Hudson on Scaling Sonic Nationally
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cliff Hudson is a business executive best known for serving as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp. He...
#465 Dave Collum on The Wild Year of 2020
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Collum is a Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is a popular staple of FinTwit and writes one of the best annual summaries at the en...
#464: Mitch Garber on Understanding Bitcoin
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mitch Garber is an investor and entrepreneur from Canada. He was previously the CEO of Caesars Interactive Entertainment and has served on the Board o...
#463 Griffin Johnson on Building Generational Wealth
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Griffin Johnson is one of the most famous TikTok stars on the planet. He recently has begun spending more time investing, along with creating companie...
#462: Josh Richards on Becoming an Entrepreneur
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Richards is one of the most famous TikTok stars in the world. He has recently started to spend most of his time as an investor and entrepreneur. ...
#461 Chamira Gamage on Potential Pardon for Julian Assange
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chamira Gamage is a Philanthropy Manager at Amnesty International and cofounder at Thinkrs.io. In this conversation, we discuss Julian Assange’s ...
#460: Ilir Sela on Empowering Local Pizzerias
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ilir Sela is the founder and CEO of Slice, the easiest way to order your favorite local pizza. In this conversation, we discuss small business challe...
#459: George Goldsmith on Improving Mental Health
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Goldsmith is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of COMPASS Pathways, which aims to treat depression through psychedelic mushrooms. In ...
#458: Rameez Tase on Subscription Business Models
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rameez Tase is co-founder & CEO of ANTENNA Analytics, a new media measurement company using an advanced data approach to provide analytics for subscri...
#457 Liron Shapira on Relationships and Rationality
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Liron Shapira is the co-founder and CEO of Relationship Hero. He’s a serial entrepreneur, founding his first company at age 21, which raised over $1...
#456: Eddie van der Walt on Gold and Bitcoin
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eddie van der Walt is a financial journalist at Bloomberg based in London, with a background in covering commodity markets, an awareness of currencies...
#455 Kate Clark and Amir Efrati on the Technology Industry
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Clark is a reporter for The Information, covering venture capital and startups, with a specific interest in fintech. Amir Efrati is the Executive...
#454: Rafael Ilishayev on Scaling a Consumer Business
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rafael Ilishayev is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of goPuff. A first-generation immigrant, Mr. Ilishayev grew up in an entrepreneurial family in the New Yor...
#453 Nick Huber on Profitable Real Estate Investing
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Huber is an entrepreneur and investor. He owns a number of self-storage facilities and also previously built a large student storage business. Ni...
#452: Alex Gladstein on Funding Bitcoin Development
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its in...
#451 Christian Angermayer on Investing in Innovation
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Angermayer is the founder and CEO of Apeiron Investment Group, which serves as his family office. Christian has previously built and investe...
#450: Jed McCaleb on Building Payment Technologies
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jed McCaleb is the co-founder and the CTO of Stellar. Prior to co-founding Stellar, McCaleb founded and served as the CTO of the company Ripple until ...
#449 Polina Pompliano on The World’s Most Successful People
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Polina Marinova Pompliano is the founder and author at The Profile, which is a community that studies the world’s most successful people and compani...
#448: Mike Solana on Independent Thinking
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Solana is a Vice President at Founders Fund focused on community and brand. He runs creative programming and is the creator / producer of Anatomy...
#447 Ryan Sekis on Crypto Theses for 2021
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Selkis is the founder of Messari, an open data library and curation tool that helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the cryp...
#446: Lyn Alden on Investing Across Asset Classes
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lyn Alden is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, which provides market research to hundreds of thousands of individual investors and financi...
#445: Nicole Arbour on Creating Viral Content
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Arbour is a comedian and digital renegade that has racked up more than 1 billion video views online. She is constantly reinventing the game, bo...
#444 Raoul Pal on Bitcoin & The Macro Economy
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Raoul Pal is the cofounder and CEO of Real Vision. He spent his entire career as a successful macro investor, retired at an early age, and is one of t...
#443: McKenzie Collins on Providing For Your Family
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
McKenzie Collins is the owner of Mack’s Flooring Installations. He is an everyday person who lives in Canada and has discovered Bitcoin over the las...
#442 Edwin Dorsey on Short Selling
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Edwin Dorsey is the creator and writer behind the Bear Cave newsletter, where he covers the weekly developments in the short selling community. His wo...
#441: Kevin O’Leary on Alternative Assets
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian businessman, author, politician, and television personality. He is a Shark on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank and has had nu...
#440 Sergey Nazarov on Oracles and Smart Contracts
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sergey Nazarov is the CEO of Chainlink, where he is focused on smart contracts and oracles. In this conversation, we discuss decentralized finance,...
#439: Brad Garlinghouse on Crypto Regulation
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO of Ripple. In this conversation, we discuss crypto regulation, the US approach compared to other jurisdictions, whethe...
#438 Diogo Monica on Crypto Custody
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Diogo Monica is the Co-Founder and President of Anchorage. Anchorage brings the world’s most advanced and proven security architecture to cryptocurr...
#437: Nic Carter on Measuring Bitcoin’s Growth
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nic Carter is a Partner at Castle Island Ventures and a Co-Founder of CoinMetrics. In this conversation, we discuss Bitcoin’s market cap all-time h...
#436 Dan Tapiero on Gold and Bitcoin
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Tapiero has more than 25 years of experience investing across asset classes on Wall Street and is one of the most well-known macro investors in th...
#435 Zach Cox the 12-year old Trading Wonder
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Cox is a 12-year old from the UK who recently gained popularity on the internet. Here is his story.
#434: Max Rofagha on Building Internet Communities
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Max Rofagha is founder and CEO of Finimize, one of the world’s largest and most engaged finance communities. Max previously founded DeinDeal, an onl...
#433 Eric Siu on Hacking Revenue on the Internet
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Siu is the CEO of digital marketing agency Single Grain. Single Grain has worked with companies such as Amazon, Uber and Salesforce to help them ...
#432: Michael Weisz on Investing in Alternative Assets
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Weisz is co-founder and President of YieldStreet, an investing platform that believes in the power of technology to drive equality and transpa...
#431 Yoni Assia on eToro’s Incredible Growth
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of eToro, the largest social trading platform in the world. He has been a Bitcoin proponent for almost a decade and ...
#430: Nikhil Basu Trivedi on The Mind of a Venture Capitalist
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nikhil Basu Trivedi is a venture capitalist who has spent the last decade investing in various successful startups, including Canva, Imperfect Foods, ...
#429 Bo Jiang on Secure Virtual Cards
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bo Jiang is the co-founder and CEO at Privacy.com, a company focused on protecting your privacy online. Their team builds easy to use online privacy a...
#428: Ronan Levy Gives An Overview of Psychedelics
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ronan Levy is a pioneer in the medical cannabis and psychedelic industries. He is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Field Trip, along with a pa...
#427 Andrew Wilkinson on Why He Buys Certain Companies
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Wilkinson is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Tiny. He previously founded MetaLab, one of the world’s top design agencies. He has gone ...
#426: Ryan Denehy on How To Be A Startup CEO
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Denehy is a 3x entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Electric, which is revolutionizing IT support with the world’s first automated IT platform. ...
425: Eliza Orlins on Criminal Justice Reform
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eliza Orlins is a Manhattan public defender who has represented thousands of New Yorkers over the last decade. She is currently running for Manhattan ...
#424: Bradley Kam on Crypto Payments
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Kam is the Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains. In this conversation, we discuss crypto payments, real world IDs, oracles, how to access the decen...
#423 Brock Blake on Small Businesses During The Pandemic
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brock Blake is founder and CEO of Lendio, an online marketplace for small business loans. Lendio offers borrowers access to loan options from more len...
#422: Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster on Digital Art
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster are the founders of Nifty Gateway, which was recently acquired by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’ Gemini crypto exchang...
#421 Mario Gabriele on Writing About Technology Companies
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mario Gabriele is the Founder and Writer at The Generalist, a new publication that covers the technology industry from idea to IPO. He previously work...
#420: Anna Irrera on PayPal Entering the Crypto Industry
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Irrera is a Chief Correspondent at Reuters in London where she covers the financial technology sector and technology related developments at some...
#419: Justin Blau on Monetizing Creativity in Today’s World
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Blau, who is best known as 3LAU, is a DJ and electronic dance music producer. He has also been an early advocate for Bitcoin and digital art as...
#418: Dave Nemetz on The Current State of Media Companies
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Nemetz previously founded Bleacher Report and Inverse. Today he serves as the General Manager at BDG Media, along with spending time advising and...
#417: Chris Herd on The Future of Work
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Herd is the Founder and CEO of Firstbase, which provides remote teams with all the tools they need to be as safe, comfortable, and productive at...
#416 Zuben Mathews on Solving Financial Stress with Technology
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zuben Mathews is the CEO and Co-founder of Brigit. Prior to founding Brigit, Zuben was the Managing Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Infosys. He ...
#415: Jon Steinberg on The Current State of Media
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Steinberg is the President of Altice News & Advertising. He previously founded Cheddar, which was eventually acquired by Altice. Jon also serv...
#414: Jordan Harbinger on Building A World Class Podcast
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Harbinger is an American podcaster and radio personality. He hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the United States, The Jordan Harbinger ...
#413: Mark Phillips on Why Derivatives Are for Everyone
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Phillips is the founder and CEO of Harvested Financial. He has spent much of his career at Group One Trading in Chicago, where he learned how to ...
#412: Peter Doyle on Modern Value Investing
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Doyle is a Managing Director and co-founder of Horizon Kinetics. He is a senior member of the research team, along with being a member of the In...
#411: Li Jin on the Passion Economy
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Li Jin is the Founding Partner at Atelier Ventures. She previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz and is well known for coining the term "Passion Econo...
#410: Jeff Richards on Investing In Innovation
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Richards is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital. He has been at the firm since 2008 and previously spent 13 years as an entrepreneur and operating ...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Pomp Answers Listeners' Questions
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of The Pomp Podcast where I answer questions from listeners about everything, including Bitcoin, crypto, finance, investing,...
#409: Mike Colyer on Building North America's Mining Industry
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Colyer is the CEO of Foundry, a new DCG subsidiary focused on crypto mining. Foundry was created to meet the institutional demand for improved ca...
#408: CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert on Crypto Regulation
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heath Tarbert is Chairman and Chief Executive of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The mission of the CFTC is to promote the integrity,...
#407: Alexander Leishman On Building A Bitcoin Company
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Leishman is a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of River Financial. Prior to that, he was the Engineer and Investor at Polychain Capita...
#406: Reid Hailey on The Business Behind Memes
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reid Hailey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Doing Things Media, a digital content and entertainment company that owns over 20 brands and shows with a com...
#405: Hong Fang on Building A World Class Crypto Exchange
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hong Fang is the CEO of OKCoin, a leading fiat-focused digital asset exchange with service in 184 countries. She previously served as a former Goldman...
#404: Wes Barton on Venture Capital in Middle America
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Barton is co-founder and Managing Partner of Third Prime. He started his career as a tobacco farmer, spent time on Wall Street, and now is focused...
#403: Tesla Daily's Rob Maurer on Tesla Battery Day
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Maurer is the man behind Tesla Daily, a media platform focused on covering all things Tesla. This includes news on Tesla Motors, Tesla Energy, Tes...
#402: Nicholas Hinrichsen on How To Build A Successful Startup
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Hinrichsen started his first company, Carlypso, in 2013. He participated in YCombinator and raised $10M in venture funding, before eventually...
#401: Parker Lewis & Will Cole on Bitcoin As A Reserve Asset
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will Cole is the Chief Product Officer at Unchained Capital and Parker Lewis is the Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital. In this conver...
#400: Kraken Financial CEO David Kinitsky on Crypto's First Bank
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Kinitsky is the CEO of Kraken Financial, the first approved SPDI bank under Wyoming's new crypto-friendly legislation. He previously worked at C...
#399: Fred Pye on Launching A Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Pye is the President and Chief Executive Officer of 3iQ Corp, who manage The Bitcoin Fund is a public bitcoin fund listed on the Toronto Stock Ex...
#398: Web Smith on The Future of Media
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Web Smith is the Founder of 2PM, an unique company that creates some of the best reports and summaries breaking down the DTC industry. In this conv...
#397: Congressman Davidson, Caitlin Long, and Adam Traidman on Stablecoins
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode features Congressman Warren Davidson, Avanti Bank Founder Caitlin Long, and BRD Founder Adam Traidman. We focus the conversation exclu...
#396: Matt Leising on the Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Leising is a Los Angeles-based reporter with Bloomberg News covering the derivatives markets. He moved to Los Angeles from New York as part of Bl...
#395: Comedian Rachel Feinstein on COVID-19 and 2020
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Feinstein is a stand-up comedian. She is also a new mother and married to a NY Fire Department Captain, which provides a never-ending amount of...
#394: Amanda Agati on Tactical Asset Allocation
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Agati is the Chief Investment Strategist for PNC Financial Services Group. In this role, Amanda leads the team which establishes overall strate...
#393: Lisa Shields on Building Tech-enabled Financial Services
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Shields is FI.SPAN’s founder and CEO. She previously founded Hyperwallet System, which sold to PayPal for $400 million. In this conversation...
#392: Dave Portnoy on Barstool, Betting, and Bitcoin
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Portnoy is the founder of Barstool Sports. In this conversation, we discuss the business behind Barstool, the new sportsbook they launched, why ...
#391: Eric Jorgenson on Capturing Naval's Knowledge
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Jorgenson is a startup growth guy, writer, and (rarely) an angel investor. He is on the founding team of Zaarly, and has been publishing online s...
#390: Ben Golub on Decentralized Computing & Storage
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Golub is a serial entrepreneur and CEO, who has played a key role in building six start-ups. Three of these were as CEO, including Docker, Gluster...
#389: Sam Bankman-Fried On Capturing Profits In Crypto
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Bankman-Fried is the CEO of crypto derivatives exchange FTX and Alameda Research. He majored in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo...
#388: Robert Rosenberg on Lessons Learned Running Dunkin Donuts
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Rosenberg served as the CEO of Dunkin Donuts for 35 years. He took a company with 100 shops and $10 million in sales when he first became CEO, ...
#387: Tor Bair on Private Smart Contracts
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tor Bair is the founder of Secret Foundation, an organization dedicated to building, researching, and scaling the adoption of decentralized technologi...
#386: Richard Byworth on Becoming Public Market Crypto Exchange
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Byworth is the CEO at Diginex based in Hong Kong. Previously he was Managing Director at Nomura where he ran Multistrategy Sales for Asia Paci...
#385: Michael Saylor On Buying Bitcoin With His Balance Sheet
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Saylor is an entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded and leads MicroStrategy, a company which provides business intelligence, mobi...
#384: Erik Torenberg on Decentralizing Venture Capital
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Torenberg is a co-founder and partner of Village Global, an early stage venture capital firm. He is also the host of Venture Stories. Erik was th...
#383: Jim Cramer Becomes A Bitcoin Bull
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Cramer is the host of Mad Money on CNBC. He is a former hedge fund manager as well as an author and a co-founder of TheStreet.com. In this convers...
#382: Alex Konrad on The Best Stories In Tech
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Konrad is a Senior Editor at Forbes covering venture capital, cloud and enterprise software out of New York. He also edits the Midas List, Midas ...
#381: Andy Rachleff on Wealthfront & The Future of Fintech
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Rachleff is a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Wealthfront. He also co-founded Benchmark Capital in 1995 and was a general partner until 2004...
#380: AJ Vaynerchuk on Building The Next Great Sports Agency
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AJ Vaynerchuk is the co-founder of the athlete representation firm VaynerSports. He is also the former COO of VaynerMedia, a social-media-first digita...
#379: Keith Grossman on The Future of Media
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Grossman is President of TIME, where he leads the business operations of the company, including global advertising, marketing, and their digital...
#378: Chris Ashenden on the Importance of Food, Sleep, and Immune System Support
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Ashenden is a serial entrepreneur, a health and fitness expert, an investor and world traveler. He is the founder of Athletic Greens, an all-in-...
#377: Geoff Lewis on The New World We Live In
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Lewis is a Founder and Managing Partner of Bedrock. In 2019, Geoff was named as one of the Top 100 Venture Capitalists in the world by CB Insigh...
#376: Ryan Begelman on Buying and Building Profitable Companies
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Begelman and his partners bootstrapped Bisnow Media, an email newsletter and conference business, to over 7M in annual profit after only an initi...
#375: Ben Cohen on The Mystery and Science of Streaks
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Cohen is a sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York covering the NBA, college basketball and college football. He is also the autho...
#374: Morgan Housel on the Psychology of Money
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He also recently wrote a f...
#373: Matthew Dellavedova on Investing as a Professional Athlete
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Dellavedova is a professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. Dellavedova won an NBA championship with the Cleveland...
#372: Mark Nadal on Decentralized Network Infrastructures
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Nadal is the founder and CEO of ERA, an innovation lab focused on bringing the decentralized web to life across infrastructure, applications and ...
#371: Rapper FiDi Guy on Financial Education
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
FiDi Guy is a New York City-based rapper who has built a significant following on social media by using hip-hop to share financial education and marke...
#370: Jack Mallers on the Future of Strike, Zap, & Lightning Network
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Mallers is the founder of Zap, which has created Strike, an application that allows anyone to send money instantly, with no fees, anywhere in the...
#369: Alex Masmej on Personalized Tokens
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Masmej is the creator of the $ALEX token. He is interested in how decentralized computing and smart contracts can significantly change the world....