Ari Paul on the Fat Protocol Thesis and Product/Market Fit in Crypto
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“I really value experimentation, we are so nascent in this industry, there are so many unknowns that I think bad experiments are valuable. So, EOS is a radical experiment in governance, if it fails due to poor engineering, we won’t learn anything but if it fails for governance reasons we’re going to learn a lot from it.”
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Fri 17th August 2018
Company: BlockTower Capital
Role: CIO
Eight months into a Crypto bear market and the lens firmly on the Crypto industry. Last week I caught up with Ari Paul from BlockTower Capital to discuss many important issues relating to token projects.
We talk about Joel Monegro's Fat Protocol Thesis; product/market fit within token projects and Crypto marketing.
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SHOW NOTES
Connect with Ari Paul:
Ari's Website: https://thecryptocurrencyinvestor.com/
On LinkedIn
On Medium
On AngelList
BlockTower Capital:
Website: https://blocktower.com/
On CrunchBase
On AngelList
Discussed in the Podcast:
Joel Monegro: Fat Protocol Thesis
Kyle Samani: Aggregation Theory, Thin Protocols, and Recentralization: Augur Edition
Chris Dixon: The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
BREAKDOWN OF THE SHOW
00:02:51: Introductions
00:03:19: Changing theories during a bear market and the ERC-20
00:07:42: Utility tokens and the idea of recentralisation
00:10:06: Criticism of Augur's launch, and the UI
00:15:55: Product market fit, the customer factor and marketing
00:21:09: Innovations around governance
00:25:26: Protocol security
00:27:46: 2018 predictions
00:33:21: Institutional adoption
00:40:43: Bitmain IPO
00:44:59: What to look out for over the next year or two
00:52:37: Final comments
THANKS
Jason Camiolo for audio production, his website is at http://www.jasoncamiolo.com/
James Parkin for helping me with admin and trading
Paul Edmonds for graphic design
