Paul Veradittakit is a Partner at Pantera Capital, a leading digital currency investment firm. Before Pantera, Paul worked in venture capital at Strive Capital, in consulting and research roles, and served as an advisor & mentor to a bunch of interesting companies.
The emergence of digital assets opened up a whole new asset class for investors, along with a new generation of companies working on infrastructure and user interface solutions for retail and institutional users. Paul was one of the early adopters, joining Pantera in 2014 when and other were still fringe technology to mainstream investors, best known for the Silk Road and Mt. Gox.
In this episode, Paul and I discussed differences in approach to investing in digital currency projects versus more traditional early stage companies; Pantera’s current focus on infrastructure-oriented projects working on scalability solutions; Paul’s framework for initial exchange offerings as a replacement for the current initial coin offering (ICO) process; the potential for to improve financial access in emerging markets; and much more.
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Published at Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:52:15 +0000
