The Pomp Podcast

#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....

#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 ...