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Had a super fun time interviewing Justin Waldron, the co-founder of Zynga!!!Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro 0:35 – Building games on MySpace, AOL Instant Messenger, 5:37 – Dropping out at 19 to Co-found Zynga, Realizing Facebook would be HUGE 11:03 – Shipping Farmville, Inventing New Social Games 12:28 – Printing hundreds of millions off games 14:49 – BEING DELUSIONAL on early trends you spot 18:16 – Sta...

Interview with Mert, the CEO & co-founder of Helius, the top Solana infrastructure company. Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:50 Getting His First Computer in Turkey02:20 Canada & Dreams of Pro MMA Fighter05:06 Skyrim Changed His Life 😭07:14 Grinding Engineering in Highschool & Queens University12:50 Discovering Crypto & Leaving Coinbase to Start Helius18:26 Turning Friends into Co-Founder...

Jia is one of the most genuine, kind, and hilariously funny people I’ve met, who helps everyone around her. No wonder she has such a loyal authentic audience online. We have a pretty deep and vulnerable conversation, especially on winning emotional battles. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:34 Wanting more while at MSU 2:50 Hackathons as a pipeline 6:38 Blowing Up on Social media, Life feels surreal 9:17 H...

Thank you to my wonderful amazing talented friend Ivy for coming on the show :) Such an amazing conversation. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:36 Ivy Origin  3:19 Falling for the prestige race 7:55 Wharton Gap Year & High Agency 14:36 Carving out a life path that doesn’t exist 15:44 How to have full delusion in yourself  19:43 How to create wealth outside of tech / finance 22:04 Naval was right 23:03...

Amazing conversation with my good friend Addison — listen through to get all the alpha... Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:38 Addison Origin Story 2:45 Founding Thunderhead at 16 13:45 Early to Hyperliquid in 2023 15:32 Why do high caliber people go to crypto... 17:01 Valantis Acquisition of Thunderhead 22:08 Value creation in speculation as the world becomes more hopeless 26:29 How to not get cooked in t...

My talented funny friends Eunice and Cayden come on Countersignal Episode 2 :DTimestamps:0:00 Intro1:00 Tattoos3:37 Modeling6:10 Viral Marketing for a startup7:16 Cayden & Tally Gooning Origin Story 10:30 Getting crypto hacked / Algorithm Differences15:17 Eunice Hinge Origin Story18:07 Meaningful media vs doing what works24:42 Linkedin Marketing25:47 Getting over hate27:52 Distribution33:22 Ga...

Countersignal Podcast Episode 1 with Eric Zhu! Eric Zhu is the co-founder of Aviato, the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets and Sperm Racing, the world's first bio-competition. He also just turned 18. 0:00 DSM-5 2:30 Crypto People are Built Different 4:50 Sperm Racing Origin 9:57 Craziest Stories 14:42 Virality Thesis 16:57 Weird Tech People 18:21 Did I fuck up my life? 20:36 Growing up in...