Holistic Investment w Constantin Kogan

🔥Really exciting interview with Ilia Maksimenka - Founder of Plasma Pay and Plasma Finance.  PlasmaPay is a global payment and remittance platform for people and digital business. Here you can securely store crypto and fiat currency, buy and exchange popular digital assets, make and receive payments, build your own payment network with zero-fee transactions.  Plasma mission is to create an open f...

🔥Had a blast learning from Scott Stuart - Co-Founder & Head of Product at Kava Labs.  Kava is native blockchain that enables cross-chain financial services. This means that you can now take out loans in any fiat currency, USD, Euro, or the Yen to name a few. Not only do you get to keep your Bitcoin, but you can actually earn up to 11.8% APY on your Bitcoin and Kava offers very affordable inte...

🕹Learned a lot from an interview with Peng Zhong - CEO of Tendermint. Tendermint is  a core contributor to the Cosmos Network, building the most powerful tools for distributed networks. Their goal is to empower people to create a transparent and accountable world through open, distributed, and interoperable networks. Here are some of the products they have built: ⭐️ Tendermint Core - the "best-in...

🥇Had a great interview with Daniel Kim - Head of Revenue at SFOX. Founded in 2014, SFOX, San Francisco Open Exchange, is the first and leading U.S. cryptocurrency prime broker that provides reliable and secure global trading and custody solutions to traders, investors and institutions such as exchanges, money managers, funds, banks and payment companies. The platform offers a simple, reliable, an...

Had a blast with Tyler Ward - Co-Founder of Barnbridge. He runs Proof Systems, one of the largest marketing & UI/UX companies specializing in digital assets. Tyler has worked with ConsenSys, Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), FOAM, Dether, Grid+, Centrality, Sylo, NEAR Protocol, DARMA Capital, SingularDTV & the snglsDAO. He started working in crypto in late 2016 & has bought and sold num...

🎆What a way to close the year with LinkedIn and Hub Co-Founder Eric Ly.  Eric is passionate about combining innovative products, technologies and business models to create highly successful companies. He worked with a talented teams to enable professionals to connect in fundamentally better ways with each other online. Before his LinkedIn and Hub success stories he worked at IBM, Sun Microsystems...

Great rundown of yield farming strategies by Keegan Selby & EJ Rogers - Co-Founders of Fourth Revolution Capital. 4RC’s investment thesis is centered on the belief that decentralized computing and web3 networks will become the digital infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. They are hands-on, stage-agnostic partners focused on long-term product-market fit and sustainable utility. I...

One of the brightest minds in our industry Meltem Demirors - CSO at CoinShares, first joined the cryptocurrency industry in 2015. Prior to that has been actively managing and leading investment firms; supporting and advising founders building early stage companies; and leveraging her experience and network to accelerate the growth of the crypto asset class and the firms developing it. Invested in...

Insightful conversation with Jamie Burke - CEO & Founder of Outlier Ventures (OV) a custom accelerator for Web 3. Since 2014 OV have advised, invested in and incubated 25+ projects in the New Data Economy. Now they have condensed these 6 years of learning into an accelerator program to support pre-seed stage startups across all 3 key layers of Web 3 innovation: Infrastructure, Middleware &...

Important guide on crypt taxation provided by David Kemmerer - CEO of CryptoTrader.tax. Millions of cryptocurrency users face a challenging problem when it comes to staying compliant with tax laws. Due to the way the digital asset is treated by governments around the world, it is most often subject to capital gains and losses rules similar to stocks, bonds, and other forms of property. This sparks...

Very insighhful interview about the future of bitcoin with Mike McGlone - senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, a unique research platform that provides context on industries, companies, and government policy, available on the Bloomberg Professional service at BI(GO). Mr. Mike specializes in the broad investible commodity markets. He joined Bloomberg in 2016 with over 25 years of...

Enjoyed our conversation with Richard Byworth - CEO of Diginex. Richard is based in Hong Kong. He has 20+ years of experience spanning finance, start-ups, investment, and FinTech sectors. Previously Managing Director at Nomura, the Japanese Investment Bank, Richard was running Derivative and Equity Linked product Sales for Asia Pacific product globally. Diginex delivers solutions that make digital...

🥇Insightful interview with Michael Saylor - Founder and principal shareholder of MicroStrategy. Entering the business intelligence marketplace with the MicroStrategy 2.0 product in 1994, it was one of the first products for building analytical applications on large relational databases. The firm went public on the NASDAQ in 1998. You can find further information about us under the ticker MSTR or...

👍Great interview with Semyon Dukach - Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, the venture capital fund backing exceptional immigrant tech founders who are building great companies like Brex, Momentus Space, and Chipper Cash. Former Managing Director, Techstars in Boston. Former Chairman of NASDAQ:SHSP. Worked on virtual reality at IBM research in the late '80s. Developed an early internet payment p...

This time I was delighted to join Timothy (Tim) Draper - venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates and Draper Goren Holm. His most prominent investments include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, a...

🙋‍♀️This time I was delighted to join Alexandra (Sasha) Johnson - Founder and Managing Director of the Global Technology Capital (GTS) and Heed Capital, CEO at VC.House. GTS is a premier investor conference on global emerging markets held annually in Silicon Valley since 2003.  Alexandra is an experience investor in early stage companies and was one of the first female partners in the VC industry...

🔔In this interview I had a pleasure to  learn from Spencer Bogart - General Partner at Blockchain Capital. Formerly on the Internet Equity Research team at investment bank Needham & Company where Spencer led the firm's research efforts in all things bitcoin and blockchain. He conducted fundamental investment research and analysis of companies in those industries as well as the broader Interne...

🤩Jake's background combines quantitative analytical skills rooted in pure mathematics as well as a life-long interest in computer science, programming, and technology combined with financial, pure technology and private equity research experiences. Jake is deeply involved in studying blockchain technologies, decentralization, digital crowdfunding, and cryptoassets.  CoinFund is a cryptoasset-focu...

👆Constantin Kogan joins Matthew Le Merle - Сo-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era which manages Blockchain Coinvestors - the world's leading blockchain venture fund of funds. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is Chairman of CAH and Securitize (Europe) and Vice Chairman of SFOX. Matthew...

😎Constantin Kogan joins Igor Shoifot - Partner at TMT Investment and experienced angel investor.  TMT Investments PLC provides investors with liquid exposure to a diversified portfolio of earlier-stage technology start-ups. Quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange since 2010, TMT has invested in over 40 companies to date and realized 12 full and partial exits...

🚀Constantin Kogan joins Brooke Pollack - Managing Partner of Hutt Capital, a blockchain venture capital fund of funds and direct investment firm.  Prior to Hutt Capital, Brooke worked for ten years across private fund, secondary and direct investing with leading institutional investors. Most recently, he spent 4+ years with Greenspring Associates, a venture capital platform with $8 billion under...

🏆Constantin Kogan joins David Siemer - Founder of Wave Financial, Wavemaker Partners, and a technology-focused investment bank, Siemer & Associates LLC, which he sold to CEC Capital in 2016. David received an MBA from the University of Chicago.  Wave Finance offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto a...

🚀Constantin Kogan joins Ash Egan - Partner at Accomplice.    Accomplice (FKA Atlas Venture) is a tech VC firm with a crowdsourced approach to venture. Through platforms like AngelList, Boston Syndicates, and Maiden Lane, Accomplice harnesses the community to empower and fund the best founders. We invest in extraordinary people with big ideas across many industries, including cybersecuri...

🚀Constantin Kogan joins Alon Goren, Founding Partner at Draper Goren Holm, Co-Founder of Crypto Invest Summit, LA Blockchain Week, 805 Startups & Investedin. DGH, founded by Alon Goren and Josef Holm is a Fintech Venture Studio focused on investing in early-stage blockchain startups. DGH invests in and also accelerates projects related to blockchain technology, digital currency, crypto assets...

🔥Constantin Kogan joins Jeff Dorman - Chief Investment Officer at Arca,  a digital asset investment firm, where he manages all aspects of portfolio sizing, trading, and risk management. Jeff has nearly two decades of experience in portfolio management and trading and previously served as COO of Harvest Exchange, a top FinTech firm. Arca is an institutional-grade financial services firm build...