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Fireside Chat: Investor Journey: from Bitcoin to VC. Moderated by Eric van der Kleij
Richard Moorhead, Olga Feldmeier, Charles Hoskinson, Resp: General Partner, Open Ocean - CEO, Smart Valor
Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 · 1:42 p.m. · 32m 36s
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section of me i hear resume i go away you should be as i've
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explained it cost i do weddings grills monitors i do all of that
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and actually it well don for making it through luncheon being back here
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um my name is alexander clan they've foolishly asked me to
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moderate this panel so the paddles thinks they know
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the questions i'm gonna ah okay yeah but actually before i go into that i just want to say
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full q. last to smart val are all gonna and the team it's marvellous for putting this on this is your first one of these
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okay so now now to the topic
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starting with someone who i i wouldn't say how long we've known each other which it because it would
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be giving away a little too much but the last awesome boom and bust does come to mind
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and so you got a good viewpoint about investing across that time period
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and so actually when you think about the time line you know of of the
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transition of an investor starting from twenty years ago so i do today um
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what does it look like and especially with a view on risk have you seen it evolved
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so maybe start with the first time you either took all made an investment right the way through to now
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gosh i'm so that was back in nineteen ninety five and um
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so i was twenty three the time and i was a building a company my uh brother charlie so we were uh we would
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trying to build some piece of the internet um uh as
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it was being constructed then and we built a uh
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service activation software for networks made of browsers as they used to call them in that
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in america and um it was i mean it was incredible uh experience obviously
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that age and uh it gives me a lot of respect and indeed
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uh attraction towards a entrepreneurs of that particular a vintage and um
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we got the opportunity to be involved in uh you know the
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i. t. f. the internet engineering possible so the time and
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try to participate a little bit in the setting the standards around quality of service and security and
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social first hand that process all the involvement of the companies like cisco intel and so forth
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so that was the expansion we ended up having um actually to to really the
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point five a company we live here in june two thousand um and
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reaches the end of two thousand and one point four billion dollar market cassie
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that was the i. p. of yes that was saying um and
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i doubt i must say was put domain on the back
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of um a a great story a rising tide a
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product that was being bored by the magic areas in telecom service providers and grow revenue growth but um
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uh i would say that the pretty kind of eye watering multiples on
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the on the on the revenue to to market calf but um
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and out often issue that that to me in relation to i see those um
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i actually try to stop us do not live here at the time
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um i felt that there was a more methodical approach to building a company that
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actually uh you know you have to do with the coding on the
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product the value proposition and the the cultures of the company and so forth
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and he is possible to uh getting way ahead of yourselves and
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and and think that is just about being equip just walking going that way so
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that can be obtained or something it want to watch out for but going
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back to your question um the uh it was extremely hard we took money
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from individual angels will predominate lays we took money from one house uh
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is pretty famous yeah but there's now and i'm in the u. k. she but he was a view
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exception to the rule and we do my from esther dyson in the states but other than that
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the venture capital scene in europe was still thinking about risk
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management and minimisation rather than thinking about risk maximise nation which is
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where does got it now we're so gonna come back to
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risk maximise nation because i think that i feel that way perfecting that in some ways with the i. c. uh
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that room but we'll come back to all the can i just say that
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i loved your presentation on the time line was really ideas what all's
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exercise yeah it's nice to do something like that but more about that because it is the history of investing that i think that it's
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quite interesting to especially from say swiss context yeah well you know a a
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history of investing would be too long to cover in thirty minutes
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um what particularly excited about us what's going on now i remember uh
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when was it like two thousand fifty ah just two years ago
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i would say to him you know his man says 'cause ours foul yeah for example we were sitting
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here in britain offices family offices said they were beach and
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clay might people should they were kind of polite thereof
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look like they were no questions no actually it was
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like completely dead air play great to erase it
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oh really then this is there is a very very yeah i mean i don't know how many people you
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can we sheepish but also requires maturity yeah but it
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is the right one or two hands says it
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best actually you know for me like some some crazy acts
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you know who's investing in something that some code
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rating uh says that's mace in in these in evolution and the religion is of course continuing and
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i i it we can't go i mean you briefly mentioned in your talk about work that
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you did with zappa and thing but but i can't let it go by because
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that's a huge building block for switzerland in that
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it means that anyone that goes to meet women now they're gonna know what a token is and they understand that actually or
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developing the capacity in it so that was important work in
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the industry but then let's phosphor to now right and
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doesn't it's level thirty nine like that was the the probably the first side that we that say i let me ask
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you the question that you probably would expect is easy to remove the right weapon of choice of ah yeah
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so uh for those of you who don't know me i've uh what are the co founders of ethereal actually
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i was like i did with a shorter that's that so i had to fly out live with the
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high end is you back and twenty fourteen and we were the very first people to actually talk about purple
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currencies uh we uh we're enemy apart first script occurrence apply uh i think it's all they do
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by the way is if you're in the right platform so the way i think
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of that question is let's look at an analogy so what's over the internet
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or do we start we start with t. c. p. i. p. so that kind of
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like a standard for moving information so that crypt the current technologies big point
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as a standard for moving valued uproot you could do it then what came
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next the web browser this was the standard the platforms as actually
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allowed you to get on and do something useful with the system that's a theory on a certain respect but any competing standards there
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what came after the web browser you have the amazons the google e.
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bay's all these big businesses that are consumers of that stack
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so similarly now we have this ability to represent value in a very complex way
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and we're saying nice yellows and all these business models instrumented innovation that's occurring
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this does not necessarily me appearing in per se you can use pretty much any platform with
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equivalent capabilities right now there's gonna be tremendous competition what matters are the standards what
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matters is having standards are used and of all over time applying that standard of your
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c. twenty as token anyway so so so for example the syrian classic has no
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role in any of this well we have your three to two three and the uh we also support your c. twenty for example
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but there's you know at many ways you could represent value your c. twenty allows you to create token but there's a story behind
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that okay there's and that data there's attribution there's oracle services there's
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so much complexity that involved in doing real life applications
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well only a web brother has to have what's yes yes and javascript in a litany of other features
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in capability yeah so these things tend to love all over time and they come out of
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kind of a regulatory pressure necessity of the market and just pragmatism going going back to thank
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you for that by the way it wasn't but i'm just telling audience what you do
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oh i run i watch k. so now we're research and development for on the research side we actually right
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white papers into science go through peer reviews so we write consensus algorithms and
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zero knowledge through sunday and here is that we build cripple currencies
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resentful the investors in the roman i've made quite a few today and i say what you know what questions you wanna ask and
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so i did the question is do investors come to you for advice well yeah we diligence yeah we
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have to collection to people that tend to come to us one are people were considering investing
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in something and actually it's not even normal investors it usually on the seats are the people who
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are saying we want to take a position in a company or a in a crowd cell
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and then we help them along and we do due diligence so we look at things like
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the technical talent of the team the code the white paper these types of things
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and the other people come to us with those whatever the nice yell and they have
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like regulatory questions structuring questions marketing questions so this is what i'd like us to
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drill down the because from the entrepreneurs that i've met today you are asking the question
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should i i see a when should i do it usually use what you like is
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and the investor is your skiing should i invest should i invest in the font
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when to get in it is the dangers in well i got a present and you know the question
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so i guess it's i mean we've seen a lot of initiatives around the formalisation of process but
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there's one thing that inspires people or the the common denominator that we've noticed is that
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the potential for liquidity is high okay so was let me i mean richard maybe is want
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to try to and and all that because you met those investors and at the
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time you didn't know you could offer them this incredible potential what is it me the
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potential for liquidity i mean i mentioned a little bit earlier five in it
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go first and i'll try to keep it brief but all got um but um
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you know i think that we should explore all you know the potential for you
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know as an investor thinking about uh uh returning some of the capital to
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you know our investors that something that clearly is gonna be on the table for consideration bought
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going up to one side i think this liquidity use it is extremely dangerous
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um i think that uh that we need to remember
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that great finnish degree polish between venture capital
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and entrepreneur as um you know comes from that report between the individuals it comes from
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i'm actually doing the level of of due diligence on technology so
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that that we were just discussing just now that's not
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actually not new that's how the festival is is is is down it comes from thinking about how you can
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get the the the largest and most jerome possible company out
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of the whole uh project all all those for me
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thinking back to my times an entrepreneur what you're looking for and frankly have been
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missing for a long period of time in europe tended to be
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concentrated in silicon valley but now a much more prevalent
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i'm sort of it's kind of like the same old story again but if
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anything it's really uh in the office of grey venture capital investing
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nice to be as finely tuned as possible for this next year uh and not to get distracted
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by the uh the quick riches of a liquidity i was uh in car is to here
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a journey back i was i was delighted see that you're going on a previous panel because
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he spoke he has spoken previously of enjoying the disruption of his
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own industry the budget gap leads to like kinda like
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but then he made a terrific point which is you know smart because i don't need to come to
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us to the best is right we made for for for the money 'cause it could available anyway
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it's actually the advice that they need to help not to screw it up it is it's is that still the case
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and uh all go what do you think is likely then to happen as the next step
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as a result of the freedom that the i. c. uh well has given us
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what is likely to to be the next will any of that people's that
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in the next that yeah i think you know i'll circulate here we'll
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move on and we'll have much more you know a comfortable environment tend
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to be secure you know whatever to invent what has the consequences
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that's all nice hillside right but that's you know just one use case
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offset technology right and we're gonna see a lot of different as they use cases is that right
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it's just came up is the first one yeah i see a huge opportunity since the space of
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two condition of real assets that's gonna be the next to each way if you know
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and we're gonna use this one to create small creates a intel's
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asset classes set where consider it you know quite early quit
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where you know difficult to deal with if your like prime integrity like real estate right
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yeah it's rare didn't begin right and this technology enables says you she ends and trading in
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a completely different manner rate meditations cheap reliable
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is that building is it the efficiency
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and if you like the larger audience that we can address with this that's that's the real magic yeah i think it's
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efficiency and you know it's also governance model to look at
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the economy enables us to create new governance models
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well it allows us to doesn't mean we are doing it yet i i think we will get there i
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had a lot of different companies and teams summons and you see here i want a good way
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and this is governance models it's essential what's very interesting about the token economy rate is that
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you don't have to stay cool there is in the system and see all have their
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but to be sure nate incentives to move to create value altogether rate right
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and this is very unique system actually gonna see you know i think
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overall that it's on c. exchanges you know is that our government else
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you know membership clocks great where you just call this take i
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mean i think that is one of the barriers there are
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missing components such as robust brokerage services
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that we desperately need people to develop the the best in and and to be
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able to rely on it's kind of a big hit and miss often example
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let's talk about risk briefly that tell us because one of the things that uh
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we've been told is exciting is this the tension will this into mediating
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the asset manages and uh you know the way it was control the risk it's it's if that happens
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well okay so market there's a lot of theories about this but
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people who really believe in markets believe that markets are ultimately
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fairly good at managing risk by herself six yes so there's a caviar to that you need to have their free
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transparent inconsistent markets so when you see most market failures are usually
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occur as a result of either bad regulation or there
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is a result of dark pools or other things or over use of certain models that the sports or banks
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so uh you know the centre mediation of institutions doesn't necessarily
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mean we're gonna see a catastrophic increase the rest
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what will happen is people will naturally reacted build metal
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layers to compensate like insurance market or added due
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diligence and so forth and you'll see voluntary regulation a core or restrictions occur or is it just because you
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could buy something your pension fund can't because it's not rated for example why not necessarily requirement so
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i i think that's the wrong question of will increase risk or not it's more of a question of organs
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for markets and and that's how the market will judge whether that if there will know exactly if they
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have the tools to measure and i mean i would agree i mean you you know i'm a i'm
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i'm a mention again early i'm sort of excited by the fact that we can unlock up a
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far greater amount of the wells caplan deported interesting projects i would i would agree that
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you know the transparency that is inherent in the digital comics are being built
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should be um and with the founder should um he to you know pretty good markets um
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and that yes without having that markets that is let's of the climate is historically but
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obviously you know speculation and also lead to us we say some
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uncomfortable um experiences in in markets and so i mean
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one of the questions is um uh you know what are the you you mention insurances insurance or is it
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derivatives or what is it that can provide the dampening uh within the flow of capital
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into different projects uh that would be of uh make this more effective and
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i guess that probably does tied into a you know the role of investors as
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as not just as investors and and and having to get very sophisticated
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um work with the management team in another the boardroom but also it
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as kind of key stakeholders in these digital economist so those i
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know this is us such complex interplay you got open markets with
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to relive actions and stakeholders and digital column is and boardrooms
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all of which really work at how they can come together but i just really bring up one thing so
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go ahead uh the markets knew that china shutting down big point on the right before we do
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you so the price if required of an hour said with all these announcements of
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chinese exchanges being shut down markets are smarter than people they always are
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so uh it never underestimate the power there now with respect the product it's really good
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that we now have liquidity that's also really good that we now have the
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ability to read the rest other people in as long as that's not restricted in
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its open mind you actionable see much better risk management the what existence silos
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'cause it you have competitive advantages and regulatory robert frost insider trading all the things that
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aren't dammit with traditional markets and that's good it did you mention about the potential
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for this technology to all comments to widen the market but let's
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put some numbers around that i mean how big is
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i think i managed early the the size of the alternative investment market out of the total well all
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i it depends on you know what you define as
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alternative investments but in the classical traditional sense
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uh it's every says that it's you know we're not real estate not cash
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equity or want and currently we have around seven trillion
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inset segment traits and true and if you
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compare to what bit current was just to know today that yesterday it was around eighty
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a billion rate is it it's it's a huge amount um of assets and you know it's very
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just inches isn't the chip trent in alternative assets that you've seen over the recent years
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as a as a trench of retailers say she which irritation means you
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know opening up of certain asset class to retail investors right
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and why it's obviously only gets you have so much till created to raise the and you know very low interest
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rates for so many years now so obviously even uh
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investor since the last segment low high their voice
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or affluent right there will continue opportunities and this this year's trends
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that was going on like for the last ten years
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now now we have all solicit technology to make that happen made the block change the to concede i mean
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which would you can you take a guess of how big it could be about well i mean i i i
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triple checked the other then i think maybe a can of tuna ten percent of financial assets under management now
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um that are really in kind of corny but alternative but i think for me the the real point
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is that i venture is a sliver of that and actually be good venture that focused on
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you know when you work on the moon shots all star shops that can
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really exciting stuff is like another sliver of that and that's the
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stuff that could really move this forward and it's you know there are
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some really exciting venture capital firms from the the the wells
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um who who are combining now this ability to allocate capital
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like they couldn't before to build digital economies with a phone in advance is like
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whether it be the the price of solar all quantum computing or you
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know obviously a iron in are becoming more prevalent i mean the some really
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fundamental shifts if you allow yourself to get into gonna futurist mode
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sort of rate cuts was sort of mode and you can you can get seriously excited and i think
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there's this panel maybe is another pilot but i'm at and you know and i think that
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the building the tissue economies the unlocking of that that capital through
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you know taken cells has got a got a key part to play in that i
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mean it's about getting the mall some providing income and education and also and and
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solving major problems of genetic disease i mean that's what we're talking about in
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terms of that improve capitalisation with getting excited about i think that
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so i know it and this kinda by the way is the one on one of the ones perhaps
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that is going to be asking allowing questions that people used so uh i if you have
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a burning question that you wanna ask then we'll see i get ready to come and ask you
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the question so i have a quick think 'cause we're gonna leave some time at the end
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even for this panel previous ones if there's people here that that that can perhaps contribute to it
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so uh if you have any that you a question one austin please raise your hand
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and i will try to keep an eye out for when i was uh
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as one in the middle now i don't know if we have a microphone that come live
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so what i would suggest you in school like to to to projects to use your diaphragm
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ha ha this is it go for it but i will repeat the question so
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uh with the first person the question i think is in the uh middle cargo here please stand up so your name and then a
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guy with a question like that i have a might so that's part so i'm nah next and the question is more directed
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yeah that's the the last years where we are and also how it can or things started so
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it's a mind it's a world full of let's say three money nowadays and flooding the
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money because uh central banks and how do students going when the cycle is
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over and we can go back to an average writer cycles we found the stem
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cell so you know you have all well this organ tissue you have part
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leverage longer simple nerve tissue right they'll think different and assets are
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the same way you have cash in commodities securities bonds
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that right tokens of the stem cell they could turn into anything and they can move anywhere they can do anything
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so now that we have that uh it's not a question of
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how we actually build a sustainable mass of global market for
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and then anybody is on equal footing just the pretty magical part of all
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but it also means that everybody's expose the same set of risk
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as opposed to just accredited investors and special people that's the hard part
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where we're at now it is to act as that one maybe
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it from my side um you know when you start any kind of business it's of course you know the first question how
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do scale how do scale quickly right so i think for the school
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to condition topic now is the right time and it's not
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just you know question of man sits question of here is will
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still be insists low interest environment uh four years tickle
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i'm still if you manage to start says kind of business
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today and scale it quickly was in two three years
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then i think you'll get one cycle turns it will stay with already owns this
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critical mass so in terms of business model things that's that's not as the
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first uh it's a major risk today yes so i agree with both of those things on a button to say to put numbers on it i mean
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yeah sure low interest rate environment right now maybe that means of some family off
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his attorney around going oh gosh i should try to make some money
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using you know this whole group that phenomenon you know but i hope that the interest rates can go
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up to anything new yeah the the rates of return that these kind of projects can deliver
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uh quite aside from kind of making the world a better place you know they you know we should be forty fifty percent
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i know rates which i'm sorry the interest face and and they're within
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that should make that much difference that's good expression of that we're
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gonna try and ploughed through a few these please say who you are and then your question die from moment go for it huh
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um my name's right okay okay okay yeah my name's brian and
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i have a question richard you made a comment about uh the issues with immediate liquidity
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um you know that's happened now what i see those organisation
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um i wonder you know from my perspective i see
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uh an opportunity to really say and and the prophecies and assumptions
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that have gone into the traditional fundraising models for start ups
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and so i'm wondering what your perspective and what the panels perspective is on
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on the other side of that equation you know the benefits for 'em
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is new structure and what opportunities we have to maintain the relationship capital you
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know that that was existing between venture capitalists and and other companies
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they're working with or or now that's you know that's new one raising all sure i mean i mean a brief don't get me wrong i
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think the we should be all others down to me or us that
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they should be the freedom to experiment as as radically as possible
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um you know and that's what this is providing that's one of the beauties of that um i just think we
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should never on that estimate the ability of individual people to be you know short term as shortsighted and greedy
00:26:38
and that's gonna lead to some um uh you know undesirable
00:26:42
effects on intended consequences we just need to be alert
00:26:45
to that um and i think absolutely it's it's um as you said it's it's providing you with funding
00:26:52
not just the projects we had before but you know new projects good we're gonna find through some more questions 'cause this is uh
00:26:58
doing well please ones can say you are very short question go for it and then yeah one of the back
00:27:02
of the last one for a hike right but i'm i'm just coming back to the questionable quality yeah
00:27:07
um oh what you say you could argue for example the bottom ah that's the problem is that the
00:27:13
lack of off so it doesn't right what do you see these offices and uh jane uh in
00:27:20
the market in the us market it will come in
00:27:25
at the clock once it's high quality and by
00:27:28
what that's all so institutional do me yeah yeah oh whatever form you see that high right
00:27:33
okay so first off you have to understand something that uh i see those are not actually do
00:27:39
it's surprising but it has been for example how they found
00:27:41
the model lessen the gen three and the kicker factory
00:27:45
this come from theses and all the issue more stock and sold it to people to read billions of dollars
00:27:51
so the concept of i need to raise money i'll issue an asset a token and and
00:27:56
raise capital backing come from anybody to the general public institutional investors and so forth uh_huh
00:28:01
uh it institutions or a really in a rock and a hard place 'cause they live a paradigm where they make seven percent to
00:28:07
ten percent or whatever maybe less right now 'cause markets aren't so good in the crypt the market's making an enormous return
00:28:14
right we're going for at five or actually there's a nice yellow near you get five x. you're complaining about it 'cause all
00:28:20
mad that i got a twenty x. or something like that but right now we're thinking knee jerk reaction to rocking institutional
00:28:26
investors and uh but hope or crock just to try to get exposure to these markets to get some money that's all gonna
00:28:32
try i'll just like the top problem had the same problem yeah he'll remember anybody else will remember the same problem
00:28:37
we're not you ninety eight ninety nine people are getting a hundred x. it wasn't real it's
00:28:41
all fake but it doesn't mean l. p.'s should not be interested in institutions and as
00:28:45
as it absolutely not what needs to happen is they they need to be a bit
00:28:49
more diversified better standards need to merge and we have to go through a rash
00:28:53
people have to lose money get a wife 'cause then what happens is the pest dot
00:28:57
coms go away but the amazon stay yellow that we have standard that was them
00:29:02
because point that uh in a crash that's when some of the greatest companies only
00:29:05
black exactly like there's only two more questions because we have exactly a minute
00:29:10
would you mind getting both of you to say oh questions and then we'll tried
00:29:13
on some really quickly go for it ha my uh my name's start
00:29:17
uh actually i spoke to read show about the same question but i would like to hear all your answers please
00:29:23
um nowadays with the the chinese news and the regulations
00:29:28
and banning what if you could in as
00:29:31
community are get regulated and more countries actually get
00:29:36
involved in this banning things and closing
00:29:39
i'm shutting down these exchanges what is the next step for you as icicles ah
00:29:45
okay so what's the next step in the wake of a changing regulated environments
00:29:50
boss like front back on to the next question and wildly we wait till next
00:29:53
question i'll actually just give you the one piece of advice that i
00:29:57
i always give anybody who wants to me in the market like this which is a
00:30:00
bit like a gold rush sell them or shovels right now the second question
00:30:06
how do you pick the best i. c. e. o.'s and
00:30:09
where will the assets that go behind the future tokens
00:30:13
come from which is best uh with commodities a securities
00:30:17
real estate property where where what are the best
00:30:20
assets uh to back tokens so that's it it's an unregulated question twenty using one question yeah
00:30:26
well since i've been in but bit going for awhile maybe i take up this one so i
00:30:32
think you know of course what we hear now from chang has this is there a
00:30:36
um that of worrisome right and it's it's not a good
00:30:39
yes yeah it would be a a significant a break
00:30:43
down that were a significant a problem for bit quite i don't think so great because one case it seems
00:30:50
the same in russia couple of years ago rating pressure you know puts in said that stable so everybody in
00:30:56
the jail for four years if you however tight speak quite great and what happened it became one of
00:31:03
the largest uh uh volume treaters on local bit quite dot com i think about this we should expect that then
00:31:12
from j. p. morgan right exactly we actually expect to find other already doing that that would be controversial
00:31:21
that we should comfort to it i think it's a great
00:31:26
opportunity to buy for those who didn't changing regulator
00:31:30
environment i mean you have to that and we're all saying that don't wonder whether on that one
00:31:35
well first off about china why why is everybody surprise the country that built the giant fire wall is
00:31:40
upset and scared about free money especially have capital controls i was looking which doesn't have that right
00:31:46
uh you know regulatory environment changes it's frustrating it starts it next lawyers
00:31:51
lots of money in accounts lots of money but all goes point
00:31:53
uh the genie is out of the bottle and we're now actually in control over on my
00:31:58
again we found the steps all we can do whatever we want to do with it
00:32:01
and uh as a consequence of that freedom uh we have now lahore
00:32:06
responsibility as individuals but we also have a lot more financial freedom
00:32:09
so i don't worry too much about regulation you deal with that when you want to and you make a personal choice of
00:32:15
how badly do you want us to the jail cell i i l. yeah double their attention work its way out yeah
00:32:22
well he just as i i i think weeks on run out of time but it was worth going over
Conference Program
Welcome and opening remarks
Sept. 15, 2017 · 9:25 a.m.
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Tokens Generation on the Blockchain
William Mougayar, General Partner, Virtual Capital Ventures
Sept. 15, 2017 · 9:29 a.m.
193 views
Panel Discussion: Inside the Token Economy, moderated by David Wachsman
Alexander Bulkin, Ransu Salovaara, Dominic Zynis, John Quinn, Resp: Co-founder, CoinFund.io - CEO, TokenMarket - Co-founder, WINGS Foundation - Co-founder, Storj
Sept. 15, 2017 · 9:54 a.m.
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Swiss Finance in Transition
Olga Feldmeier, CEO, SMART VALOR
Sept. 15, 2017 · 10:32 a.m.
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Panel Discussion: IPO 2.0: How Blockchain is Disrupting Venture Capital and Investment Banking? Moderated by Marc Badertscher
Jamie Burke , Kenzi Wang, Eddy Travia, Richard Muirhead, Resp: Founder & CEO, Outlier Ventures - Managing Partner, Superbloom Capital - CEO, Coinsilium - General Partner, Open Ocean
Sept. 15, 2017 · 11:19 a.m.
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Panel Discussion: State of ICO Market – Cutting through the Hype, moderated by Daniel Haudenschild
Richard Kastelein, Daniel Zakrisson, Alexander Ivanov, Miko Matsumura, Resp: Co-founder, Cryptoassets Design Group - Co-founder, Cofound.it - CEO and founder, Waves Platform - Partner, Pantera Capital
Sept. 15, 2017 · 11:54 a.m.
Fireside Chat: Investor Journey: from Bitcoin to VC. Moderated by Eric van der Kleij
Richard Moorhead, Olga Feldmeier, Charles Hoskinson, Resp: General Partner, Open Ocean - CEO, Smart Valor
Sept. 15, 2017 · 1:42 p.m.
Pitch DomRaider
Sept. 15, 2017 · 2:19 p.m.
Pitch Science
Sept. 15, 2017 · 2:30 p.m.
Pitch Swapy / Credit Dreams
Edmilson Rodrigues, CEO
Sept. 15, 2017 · 2:38 p.m.
Pitch Modex
Sept. 15, 2017 · 2:45 p.m.
Pitch Etherisc
Stephan Karpischek
Sept. 15, 2017 · 2:54 p.m.
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Pitch RecordGram
Sept. 15, 2017 · 3:02 p.m.
Pitch AION / NUCO
Sept. 15, 2017 · 3:11 p.m.
Presentation and demo Props project by YouNow
Sept. 15, 2017 · 3:56 p.m.
Pitch BitBoost
Sept. 15, 2017 · 4:14 p.m.
Pitch Sweetbridge
Sept. 15, 2017 · 4:20 p.m.
Pitch Streamr
Henri Pihkala, CEO
Sept. 15, 2017 · 4:29 p.m.
113 views
Pitch RightMesh
Sept. 15, 2017 · 4:36 p.m.
Pitch Sun Exchange
Sept. 15, 2017 · 4:44 p.m.
Pitch Papyrus
Sept. 15, 2017 · 4:50 p.m.
PanelDiscussion ICO Best Practice, moderated by John Hacker
Nicolai Oster, Michael Terpin, Arie Y. Levy Cohen, Andreas Glarner, Resp: Head of ICO, Bitcoin Suisse - CEO, Transform Group - President, Blockhaus - Partner, MME Legal
Sept. 15, 2017 · 5:03 p.m.
290 views
Investor Jury Announcement and Closing Remarks
Olga Feldmeier, CEO, SMART VALOR
Sept. 15, 2017 · 5:50 p.m.
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