We had investors from Silicon Valley and Union Square from New York City. If you don’t then you are coming in for the wrong reasons I think.Ĭyril Gilson: How are things going with CryptoKitties lately?īenny Giang: Well we recently just raised 12.6 mln venture funding. Then you could go to these conferences and network with people. Understanding why is so important and then you can dive in the technical aspect.

It’s about decision making, collective decision making, where a corporation is a group of people making decisions, or back when kings and monarchies when one or two people or family. He did a talk, and the whole talk wasn’t about Bitcoin it was about why does this matter. I encourage you to read Naval Ravikant, the founder of Angellist, he has a lot of tweet storms about crypto.

That took me about two weeks to really just keep asking myself that question and reading more until I found that answer and I was like okay this is the reason why! Why is this technology going to change everything? Why do you care about it? With anything you do in life if you don’t understand why you care about it, then why are you doing it? Besides money. One of the things I encourage for new people who have no clue what crypto is, is for you to spend the first or second week to try to understand why it matters to you. He is super deep into economics and he is also deep in philosophy and then he talks about the technical aspects. Vitalik along with a couple other people are really really smart. I would encourage to listen to a couple of Vitalik’s talks. These things in combination are so interesting to see. Then the psychology of it, the whole game theory, incentivizing behavior and trying to solve the classic problems in computer science that have been so difficult to solve, like the Byzantine Fault Tolerance or the general problems.

Cyril Gilson: How much psychology is involved in the crypto industry? I think there is a lot of talk about finance, trading, these kind of things but people underestimate the role of psychology.īenny Giang: Well really what got me into it was, when I first started to dive deep into Blockchain, it wasn’t necessarily the technical aspects that drew me in, what drew me in was the philosophical approach on why does this matter, why does this technology matter.

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