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The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pomplianowww.anthonypompliano.com
Host Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano talks to the most interesting people in business, finance, and Bitcoin. From billionaires to cultural icons, Pomp helps you get smarter every day.
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Episodes

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle: Circle's Place In Crypto

Jeremy Allaire is the CEO of Circle, one of the most well respected crypto incumbents. In this conversation, Jeremy and Anthony Pompliano discuss Jeremy's experience taking numerous companies public, the similarities he sees with the dot-com bubble, how he has built Circle, and why he's so bullish on Tokenized Assets. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox ...

Mar 04, 20191 hr 30 min

Eric Piscini, Deloitte Ex-Head of Blockchain: Supply Chain Enterprise In Use Today

Eric Piscini is the Deloitte Ex-Head of Blockchain. In this conversation, Eric and Anthony Pompliano discuss all things Enterprise Blockchain, and applying Blockchain technology to the supply chain. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute read. https://offthechain.substack....

Mar 01, 201930 min

Ed Moncada, Founder & CEO of Blockfolio: The Future of Crypto Governance

Ed Moncada is the Founder and CEO of Blockfolio. In this conversation, Ed and Anthony Pompliano discuss how Ed is a big poker player, the real story behind Dash, why he started Blockfolio and how it’s become one of the top apps in the crypto space, and Ed’s views on governance. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp The Grove is a full service creative and design agency that helps new and established companies tell their stories. The Grove firmly believes that a brand is mor...

Feb 27, 20191 hr 1 min

Cathie Wood, Founder & CEO of ARK Invest: The Intersection of Genomes, AI, and Blockchain

Cathie Wood is the Founder & CEO of ARK Invest. In this conversation, Cathie and Anthony Pompliano discuss investing in innovative technologies, building asset management firms, how crypto is related to things like autonomous cars, and why Bitcoin should be in every portfolio. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will see. You never get a second chance at a first impression, which is why it's so important th...

Feb 25, 20191 hr 32 min

Alex Gladstein, CSO of the Human Rights Foundation: Bitcoin and Global Welfare

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and a guest lecturer at Singularity University. In this conversation, Gladstein and Anthony Pompliano discuss Bitcoin, foreign aid, Web 3.0 as a decentralized world, unbanking the banked, and the surveillance state. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No...

Feb 22, 20191 hr 6 min

Nolan Bauerle, Director of Research at CoinDesk: Cryptography's 90s-esque Boom

Nolan Bauerle is the Director of Research at CoinDesk, an early proponent of Bitcoin. In this conversation, Nolan and Anthony Pompliano discuss Canada's past investigations into the global financial crisis, how Ethereum's ERC standards shook the world, and why humans will use math to talk with Aliens. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will see. You never get a second chance at a first impression, which is why...

Feb 20, 20191 hr 3 min

CZ, Founder and CEO of Binance: Binance and the Future of Global Crypto Regulation

CZ is the Founder and CEO of Binance, a company with 400 employees, and hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. In this conversation, CZ and Anthony Pompliano discuss what he understood that many others didn't when he started the company, how he scaled, and what their future plans are. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will see. You never get a second chance at a first impression, which is why it's so impo...

Feb 18, 201957 min

Robert Habermeier, Co-Founder of Polkadot: Why Early Crypto Adopters Didn't Care About the Money

Robert Habermeier is a Co-Founder of Polkadot, and a former core developer for Parity. In this conversation, Habermeier and Anthony Pompliano discuss Ethereum, the scalability issues, Oracles, layer two scaling solutions, and why the best people in early crypto didn't care about the money. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will see. You never get a second chance at a first impression, which is why it's so imp...

Feb 15, 201938 min

Jesse Lund, Head of Blockchain Solutions at IBM: How Fortune 500s Treat Crypto

Jesse Lund is the Head of Blockchain Solutions at IBM. In this conversation, Jesse and Anthony Pompliano discuss enterprise blockchains, how IBM is using the technology, what their customers are saying, and what Jesse sees as the most important things for the future of crypto. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will see. You never get a second chance at a first impression, which is why it's so important that y...

Feb 13, 201951 min

Sam Cassatt, CSO of ConsenSys: The Scalability of Ethereum

Sam Cassatt is the CSO of ConsenSys. In this conversation, Sam and Anthony Pompliano discuss the history of ConsenSys, Sam's perspective of foreign governments' views on liquid crypto, why Maker is so interesting, and the current scalability conversation around Ethereum. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will see. You never get a second chance at a first impression, which is why it's so important that your we...

Feb 11, 20191 hr 8 min

Talal Tabbaa, Co-Founder of Jibrel Network: How He Convinced the Saudi Prince to Buy Crypto

Talal Tabbaa is the Co-Founder and COO of Jibrel Network. In this conversation, Talal and Anthony Pompliano discuss how he convinced the Saudi prince to buy crypto, what the regulatory and startup environment is like in the Middle East, and how tokenized debt will likely become more popular moving forward. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every mornin...

Feb 08, 20191 hr 4 min

Jarrod Dicker, VP Technology at The Washington Post: Free Speech and Censorship on a Blockchain

Jarrod Dicker is the former CEO of Po.et. In this conversation, Jarrod and Anthony Pompliano what's wrong with the media today, what potential solutions may be, how censorship and free speech are constantly tested ideas, and how foreign governments like China will deal with un-censorable content on a blockchain. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every ...

Feb 06, 201937 min

David Bleznak, Founder & CEO of Totle: Simplifying Decentralized Exchanges

David Bleznak is the founder and CEO of Detroit based Totle. In this live recording, Bleznak and Anthony Pompliano discuss tokenization of assets, the current regulatory environment, future financing mechanisms, and fundraising in today's bear market. This episode of Off the Chain was recorded at CUT by Wolfgang Puck. Totle’s B2B platform provides crypto-to-crypto exchange at the best prices. Similar to using Kayak for finding the best flights, Totle’s platform aggregates access to leading decen...

Feb 04, 201939 min

Nikhil Kalghatgi, Founding Partner at CoVenture Crypto: Why Aligning Incentives in Crypto is Challenging

Nikhil Kalghatgi is a founding Partner at CoVenture Crypto. In this conversation, Nikhil and Anthony Pompliano discuss Nikhil's work at SoftBank, how to apply Moonshot Investing to digital assets, and what CoVenture is currently excited about as the crypto industry continues to mature. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bull...

Feb 01, 20191 hr 2 min

Ateet Ahluwalia, Managing Director, Coventure: Inside the Mind of a Crypto Quant

Ateet Ahluwalkia is a managing director at Coventure. In this conversation, Ateet and Anthony Pompliano discuss Quant Trading, the challenges with finding great data in crypto, and what the future of active management may look like. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute r...

Jan 30, 20191 hr 1 min

Eduardo Gómez: An on the Ground Perspective from Venezuela

Eduardo Gómez is the head of support at Purse.io, a native Venezuelan who has been working to expand adoption and awareness of Bitcoin throughout his country. In this conversation, Gómez and Anthony Pompliano discuss the current political issues in Venezuela, the hyper inflation of the bolívar, the creation of the petrodollar, the rapid adoption of Bitcoin, and he explains what's actually going on in his come country. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypt...

Jan 28, 201948 min

Tom Shaughnessy, 51percent Founder: Crypto Research in the Wild West

Tom Shaughnessy is the founder of the institutional crypto research platform 51Percent. In this conversation, Shaughnessy and Anthony Pompliano discuss what equity research is, how information is gathered in crypto, and how institutions are thinking about the space. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everythin...

Jan 25, 201947 min

Roy Niederhoffer, President of R.G. Niederhoffer Capital: A Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Manager Talks Crypto

Roy Niederhoffer has been a quantitative hedge fund manager for over 25 years. In 1993, Roy founded R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, which invests in global public equity, fixed income, currency, and commodity markets. Roy's fund, which manages over 900 million dollars today, has annualized returns of approximately 12%, out performing the S&P and most other money managers. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors...

Jan 23, 201947 min

Matt Galligan, Interchange CEO: Portfolio Management for Crypto Investors

Matt Galligan is the founder and CEO of The Picks and Shovels Company. In this conversation, Galligan and Anthony Pompliano discuss crypto custody, crypto data, trading, and what needs to happen for crypto to continue progressing. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute rea...

Jan 21, 201950 min

Sergey Nazarov, CEO of Chainlink: Smart Contracts 101

Sergey Nazarov is the CEO of Chainlink, one of the most interesting companies in the smart contract space. He's been building blockchain smart contracts since 2011, and this is definitely the most in-depth we've gone on the topic. Sergey is a firm believer that crypto has the ability to change the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share critical information. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. S...

Jan 16, 201941 min

Halsey Minor, Co-Founder of Salesforce: The Rise of Distributed Computing

Halsey Minor is one of the biggest internet and tech pioneers of our day. In 1993 he co-founded CNET, which would eventually be sold to CBS for 1.8 billion dollars. In 1999 he helped Marc Benioff co-found Salesforce. Today, Halsey is working on a bunch of projects, including Videocoin, and in this conversation, Anthony Pompliano and Halsey cover everything from distributed computing, crypto currencies, and blockchain technology. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyze...

Jan 14, 20191 hr 20 min

Rahul Sood, Founder of Unikrn: E-Sports will be Bigger than Traditional Gaming

Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, an E-Sports startup backed by the likes of Mark Cuban, Tim Draper, Brock Pierce, and Pantera Capital. In this conversation, Rahul and Anthony Pompliano discuss Rahul's experience selling his first company to HP, his time launching and leaving Microsoft's VC arm, and why E-Sports will be bigger than traditional sports. ----- BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do...

Jan 09, 201954 min

Pascal Gauthier, President of Ledger: What is Cold Storage and Why Does it Matter?

Pascal Gauthier is the President of Ledger, one of the most well known crypto hardware wallets, and the creator of the Ledger Vault for institutions. In this conversation, Gauthier and Anthony Pompliano discuss his past experience building a data company that Yahoo bought for over 500 million dollars, his time in venture capital, and the importance of cold storage and why you should care about it. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institut...

Dec 19, 201845 min

Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower: The Current State of Crypto

Ari Paul is the CIO of BlockTower, one of the best known crypto investment firms. In this conversation, Paul and Anthony Pompliano discuss his previous work at a university endowment, what Ari thinks about the current state of crypto, and how he sees digital assets performing during a global financial crisis. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every mor...

Dec 17, 20181 hr 9 min

Howard Lindzon, GP at Social Leverage: The Science of Seed Investing

Howard Lindzon is one of the best FinTech investors in the world. His portfolio speaks for itself. In this conversation, Lindzon and Anthony Pompliano discuss what Lindzon looks for in great founding teams, and the trends he's excited about moving forward. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need...

Dec 12, 20181 hr 11 min

Ali Hamed, founder of CoVenture: A VC's Take on Crypto

Ali Hamed is the founder of CoVenture. In this conversation, Hamed and Anthony Pompliano discuss crypto currency, blockchain, Bitcoin, direct lending, alternative asset management, and why Bitcoin is like Kim Kardashian. ----- BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockF...

Dec 10, 20181 hr 32 min

Josh Stein, Harbor CEO: Tokenizing the World

Josh Stein is the CEO of Harbor. In this conversation, Stein and Anthony Pompliano discuss tokenized securities, the future of finance, and why they both believe every stock, bond, currency, and commodity will be digitized in the future. BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. V...

Dec 05, 20181 hr 1 min

Matt Jennings - Kingdom Trust: The Future of Crypto Custody

Matt Jennings is the founder and CEO of Kingdom Trust, the first regulated financial institution to offer custody of digital assets, making them the first qualified custodian in the digital asset industry. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute read. https://offthechain.su...

Dec 03, 201859 min

Ken Nguyen: Tokenizing the World One Startup at a Time

Ken Nguyen is the founder and CEO of Republic. In this conversation, Nguyen and Anthony Pompliano discuss working at AngelList, the variations of securities law, building a startup in a highly regulated market, and why tokenization could eradicate global poverty.

Nov 28, 20181 hr 1 min

Ryan Selkis: Building Accountability in Crypto

Ryan Selkis is the founder of Messari, an open data library and curation tool that helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the crypto industry. In this conversation, Selkis and Anthony Pompliano discuss macro-crypto trends, the importance of data transparency and disclosures, and how to go viral on Twitter.

Nov 26, 201859 min
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