The Pomp Podcast
Episodes
#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....
#368: Leah McGrath Goodman on Searching for Satoshi Nakamoto
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leah McGrath Goodman is an American best-selling author and award-winning investigative journalist who writes from New York City and London. She will ...
#367: John St Capital Breaks Down Public and Private Companies
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John St Capital is the pseudonym used on Twitter by one of the smartest people I know on Wall Street. He works at a large family office during the day...
#366: Avlok Kohli on AngelList Rolling Funds
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Avlok Kohli is the CEO at AngelList Venture. This includes the Syndicates, Funds and Capital products. He previously built and sold two companies, inc...
#365: Zac Prince on Raising BlockFi's $50M Series C Financing
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zac Prince is the co-founder & CEO of BlockFi, the industry-leading wealth management platform for crypto asset investors. In this conversation, we...
#364: Nelson Chu on Digitizing Private Credit Markets
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nelson Chu is the founder and CEO of Cadence, the leading digital securitization and investment platform for private credit. He is a 3x startup founde...
#363: Joe Pompliano on the Business and Money Behind Sports
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Pompliano is the Founder of Huddle Up, a new media platform that breaks down the business and money behind sports. He also happens to be one of...
362: Pattie Sellers on the World’s Most Powerful & Successful People
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pattie Sellers is an an award-winning writer, producer, and multimedia journalist. She currently serves as the Co-CEO of SellersEaston Media and the C...
361: Chris Fenton on Chinese Propoganda & Censorship in Hollywood
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Fenton served as president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group and GM of DMG North America for 17 years, internationally orchestrating the...
360: Bill Barhydt on Building A Crypto Bank
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Barhydt is the founder of Abra, a simple to use cryptocurrency investment platform. After working for the CIA, NASA and Goldman Sachs, Bill decid...
359: Pierre Rochard on the Ethereum Supply Issue
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre Rochard is the Founder of Bitcoin Advisory and one of the strongest public proponents of Bitcoin. He has the unique combination of skills and e...
LIVE Q&A: Pomp and Jason Williams talk Bitcoin, Crypto, and the Decentralized World
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Williams is a co-founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital. He previously built and sold FastMed, an approximately $500 million healthcare bus...
358: Shaan Puri on Building Companies & Riding Trends
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaan Puri is the Senior Director of Product for Mobile Gaming at Twitch. He previously built Bebo, before ultimately selling the business to Twitch. ...
BREAKING NEWS: Coinbase Is Now Supporting Human-Readable Domains!
09 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bradley Kam is the co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, a company focused on popularizing blockchain-based domain names. This is a special "breaking ne...
357: Yan Liberman on Liquidity and DeFi
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yan Liberman is Managing Partner at Delphi Digital. He focuses on the quantitative side of the business, including predictive on-chain metrics and aut...
356: LIVE Camila Russo and Catherine Coley on Defi and Ethereum
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Camila Russo is a financial journalist with experience across continents and asset classes. She is the author of a new book, The Infinite Machine, and...
355: Jarrod Dicker on The Rise of Individual Creators
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jarrod Dicker is the Vice President of Commercial at The Washington Post, where he oversees strategy, engineering, product operations, technology and ...
354: Caleb Pressley on Creating Viral Internet Content
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Caleb Pressley is one of the most electric people on the internet. He currently works at Barstool Sports, run the @thinker account on Instagram, and p...
353: Peter McCormack on Bitcoin, Podcasting, and The World
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter McCormack is a journalist who hosts two popular podcasts, What Bitcoin Did and Defiance. He previously ran an advertising agency and has grown t...
352: Congressman Tom Emmer on Bitcoin and Decentralization
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Congressman Tom Emmer has served the people of Minnesota as their elected official in the US House of Representatives since 2015. He also currently si...
351: Roger Ver on Personal Freedom and Bitcoin
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Ver is an early investor in Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related startups. He has been known as "Bitcoin Jesus" for his promotion of Bitcoin. In this co...
350: Ross Gerber on Tesla and Bitcoin
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ross is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management. Ross has become one of the most influential investors o...
349: Tom Wright on the Billion Dollar Whale
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wright is a co-author of the best selling book Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World. He is a Hong Kong-b...
348: Zuby on Building a Business as an Individual Creator
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zuby is a rapper, author, speaker, and coach. He graduated from Oxford and has quickly become an international sensation. In this conversation, we ta...
347: Steven Galanis on Creating The New Autograph With Cameo
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Galanis is the CEO of Cameo, the world's leading marketplace for personalized video shoutouts. He previously helped finance films in Hollywood ...
346: Caitlin Long On Federal Banks and Bitcoin
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Caitlin Long is the Founder and CEO of Avanti Financial Group. She spent 22 years on Wall Street, including Morgan Stanley, where she was Head of Corp...
345: Ian Cassel on Micro Cap Investing
25 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Cassel is the founder of Micro Cap Club and CIO of Intelligent Fanatics Capital Management. He has spent the last 20 years learning about and inve...
344: Sahil Lavingia On Building Technology Companies
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sahil Lavingia is the co-founder and CEO of Gumroad, a technology platform that helps creatives earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to ...
343: Joe Lallouz On Building Blockchain Infrastructure
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lallouz is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in New York City. He is the CEO of Bison Trails, a leading blockchain infrastructure company h...
342: Kendrick Nguyen on The Future of Digital Securities
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kendrick Nguyen is Co-Founder and CEO of Republic, a crowdfunding platform with a mission to democratize fundraising and a vision to become a true mar...
341: Chris Slaughter On A Better Crypto Exchange Business Model
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Slaughter is co-founder and CEO of LVL, a new full-fledged banking account that I invested in that is focused on providing all of the fiat and B...
340: Greg Isenberg On Building Consumer Internet Products
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Isenberg is the Founder of Late Checkout and a Growth Advisor to TikTok. He previously built and sold a number of technology companies, including...
339: Brooke Pollack On The Blockchain VC Landscape
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brooke Pollack is the Founder and Managing Partner at Hutt Capital, a blockchain venture capital fund of funds and direct investment firm. In this con...
338: ByBit CEO Ben Zhou On Building A Leading Derivatives Exchange
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of Bybit, a global crypto derivatives exchange. He previously ran a retail forex brokerage for almost a decade. In ...
337: Kingdom Trust CEO Ryan Radloff On Advancing Bitcoin Adoption
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Radloff is the CEO of Kingdom Trust, an independent qualified custodian focused on leveraging technology to provide customized and innovative cus...
336: Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein On Investing In Crypto
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sonnenshein is the Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset manager. In this role, Michael oversees the ...
335: Former Professional Skateboarder Mikey Taylor On Winning In Business
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mikey Taylor is a former professional skateboarder who now spends his time investing in real estate across the United States at Commune Capital. He pr...
334: Ana Lorena Fabrega On How To Learn
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Lorena Fabrega is a former teacher who now spends her time focused on building products to reimagine education. In this conversation, we discuss w...
333: Jesse Proudman On Quantitative Investing In Crypto
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Proudman is the co-founder and CEO of Strix Leviathan, a quantitative crypto hedge fund algorithmically trading digital assets. In this conversa...
332: Julie VerHage On The State Of FinTech
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Julie VerHage is the Senior Correspondent at FinTech Today. She also serves as a fintech analyst for a number of well known Silicon Valley venture cap...
331: Hiten Shah On Building Successful Startups & Products
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hiten Shah is the co-founder of FYI, a company that helps you find your documents in 3 clicks or less. He previously co-founded CrazyEgg and KISSmetri...
330: Kat Cole - The Best Business Leader In America?
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kat Cole is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Focus Brands, a company doing nearly $5 billion in annual revenue. She is the former presiden...
329: Jon Najarian On Wall Street and Bitcoin
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian was linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of contact sport – trading on the Chicago Board Options...
328: Pomp Answers Listeners' Questions
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode of The Pomp Podcast with host Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano. He answers a bunch of questions from listeners about everything from financ...
327: Cameron Porter On Apple Becoming A Healthcare Company
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Porter is a Venture Architect at Alley Corp, an organization in New York that originates a startup idea, hires the team, funds the initial 6-1...
326: John Shahidi is the Architect Behind Your Favorite Digital Content
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Shahidi is a businessman, software developer, manager and producer. He and his brother started Shots Studios, a management company that produces ...
325: Michael Arrington On The Future Of Crypto
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Arrington is the founder of Arrington XRP Capital. He is also the founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Vall...