Zac is the CEO and Founder of BlockFi – a leading wealth management firm for crypto investors. Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. In this podcast, we discuss:
- The three use case of crypto – store of value, new commerce, and new payments system.
- Stablecoins are underappreciated.
- What is decentralized finance (defi)?
- How you can earn interest on crypto assets.
- How to manage crypto lending books.
- Breakdown of market players.
- How to hedge your portfolio.
- Regulatory trends in crypto finance.
- Future of NFTs.
- Books that influenced Zac: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz) and Zero To One (Thiel). Books Zac has recently read: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Hastings) and Shantaram (Roberts).
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