Episodes
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00:29:58 Intelligent Investing In the Blockchain Space with Tomer Federman
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 25 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Tomer Federman, CEO and founder of Federman Capital.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Tomer Federman discuss why he left Facebook to start his own crypto and blockchain investment fund.
“I think this technology is truly revolutionary, is going to disrupt the financial ecosystem, and is going to have major impact across entire industries in years to come.”“Crypto shouldn’t be about getting rich quickly. It should be about creating meaningful products that solve real world needs, and address real pain points.”“If I’m right and blockchain is going to be so transformative, it’s obviously going to generate significant returns for investors who invest wisely. The ability for people to transact with no intermediaries involved, and for the transactions to be recorded in an open way and settled almost immediately, the opportunities for building on top of the technology is just mind blowing.” — Tomer Federman - 00:36:10
Effectively Marketing Blockchain Technology with Erica Blair
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 24 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Erica Blair, founder of Blockchain Branding.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Erica Blair discuss branding, messaging, and what takes to effectively market a blockchain technology company.
“I see cryptocurrencies more generally as a broad political philosophy about what it is you find important in the World.”“Crytpocurrency is an entire governance model of saying this how decisions get made, this is how how value gets distributed.”“We are changing the World and we’d like you to join us, oh and by the way, we’re doing it with these tools and this technology that was never available before, which is why what we're doing is so revolutionary.” — Erica Blair -
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The Live Stream Hack with Peter Yang formerly of Twitch
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 23 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Peter Yang, former Product Manager at Twitch.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Peter Yang discuss the live streaming market including the differences between the US and Chinese markets, video game streaming, and product management.
“Live streaming is about long form content, interactive content, content you can talk to your viewers about or talk to other streamers about.”“It is about creating these jobs for people who might not enjoy a white collar job, or driving Uber or something, who just really enjoy playing videos.”“Why not make a career out of playing video games? Being able to connect with other people around the country playing these video games and have a thriving career that way; I think that’s just awesome.” — Peter Yang - 00:30:08
The Cannabis Conference Hack with Alex Rogers
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 22 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Alex Rogers, CEO of ICBC the International Cannabis Business Conference.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Alex Rogers discuss the cannabis industry, legalization, regulations, and what is happening internationally around the World as cannabis moves out of prohibition.
“Our tech stuff is still considered fairly pedestrian in our industry, but that’s what makes it so exciting of an opportunity.”“We see a lot of tech guys, and business guys coming into the cannabis space and they’ve seen it before, they know what is going on. It is just a simple analogy.”“You see a lot of marriages between tech and business in the cannabis space that are creating some amazing breakthroughs and developments.” — Alex Rogers - 00:36:38
Hacking The Tokenization of Assets with Danny An of TrustToken
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 21 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Danny An, CEO and Co-Founder of TrustToken.Today’s show would not be possible without Digital Ocean. Learn more at do.co/hackernoon.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Danny An discuss tokenized assets, stable coins, True USD, and cryptocurrency.
“Compliance is definitely a top priority for us.”“True USD is meant to be as regulatory compliant as possible. We recently published a stable coin code of ethics, where we said, ‘hey, here is some of the things we learned about creating a stable coin, and some of the past lessons we learned historically.’”“We’re never actually going to prevent redemptions, because we think a stable coin is only good as its ability to redeem the underlying US dollars. We said we would never influence the price of a stable coin purposely by offering discounts. We will continue to be as regulatory compliant as possible and sustain the stable coin so it is not knocked down by miscompliance.”— Danny An - 00:42:08
Hacking The Cannabis Industry via Blockchain with Sumit Mehta
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 20 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Sumit Mehta, CEO and founder of Mazakali, a Cannabis Investment Banking Platform.In this episode Trent Lapinskiand Sumit Mehta discuss the emerging cannabis industry, the science behind cannabis’s medicinal benefits, and Sumit’s new blockchain based cannabis investment platform.
“If we looked back at 1935, and if we were having this conversation then, we might find it fairly ludicrous if someone suggested that we elect a governmental body into power that would put us in cages for having a relationship with a plant.”“When we begin to move into a World where we see all of the benefits around our lives, around our communities, around our animals, around our plants, and around our planet that this plant is going to be able to provide I am very excited and very optimistic to be a part of that future; because it is coming, and it is coming quicker then most of us are likely prepared for.” —Sumit Mehta - 00:37:22
Hacking Education For The Future with Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 19 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Professor, Executive, and innovator.Today’s show would not be possible without Digital Ocean. Learn more at do.co/hackernoon.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Erik P.M. Vermeulen discuss decentralization, automation, and the future of work for Millennials.
“I really believe in communities.”“When I talk about creativity, and what I want my students to be, I want them to understand communities. I want them to be visible.’”“Thinking about how to become visible in a community based World, and how you can actually contribute and build something with the community is something they cannot do on their own. Most of them don’t even understand it, and when we talk about education, that’s what education is about, because it is going to happen, this decentralized thing.” — Erik P.M. Vermeulen - 00:22:50
Hacking The Job Market via Lambda School with Austen Allred
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 18 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Austen Allred, the CEO and founder of Lambda School.Today’s show would not be possible without Digital Ocean. Get started on DigitalOcean for free with a free $100 credit at do.co/hackernoon.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Austen Allred discuss learning programming and how Lambda Schooltrains software engineers.
“We want to get the point where 90% of our students are hired within 90-days of graduation.”“For us, it is very important that when you graduate from Lambda, we want to say, ‘this person has a stamp of approval they understand these 120 things, and we know that and we verified that and people stand by them.’”“In the longterm that will matter a lot when it comes to employers and hiring. They will know what a Lambda graduate means.” — Austen Allred - 00:44:29
Hacking The Self with Nick Jankel
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 17 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with serial entrepreneur and author Nick Seneca Jankel.In this episode Trent Lapinskiand Nick Seneca Jankel discuss consciousness hacking, his new book Spiritual Atheist, and how to be a spiritual person without giving into religion or ideology.
“I am hacking capitalism to make a more connected World.”“We’ve got to use this technological power, this power of business, creative power, and we’ve got to take on some big problems.”“What is purpose? Well, purpose is like love in action. It is that love and kindness that comes out into I’m going to take on this community issue, I’m going to take on a bigger social problem then I was before. Until we can access purpose within, and keep it stable within us, that control and protect mode of a monkey will keep going ‘forget the purpose, lets make another million, that would be really cool, then we’ll be loved’.” —Nick Seneca Jankel - 00:35:23
Building A Movement Through Emerging Tech with Enigma's Tor Bair
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 16 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Tor Bair from Enigma.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Tor Bair discuss privacy, blockchain, the problems with the centralized tech industry, security, and data science.
“I don’t want to get too much into why truth is broken right now in the tech space, that’s a whole other can of worms, but I think we can all appreciate that it is getting harder and harder to know what is trustable.”“The moment we start believing there is no other way, then it is just a race to the bottom. There will only be two companies in the World, and that’s if we’re lucky. There may only be one.”“We have to be building a movement at the same time we’re building the technology. I think we need to be funding these kinds of solutions like this is the apocalypse event for the Internet.” —Tor Bair - 00:36:42
Emerging Technologies with Venture Capitalist Julian Moncada
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 15 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Venture Capitalist Julian Moncada.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Julian Moncada discuss emerging technologies such as blockchain, augmented reality, virtual reality, to artificial intelligence.
“I think that is really important that if you’re a hacker or developer that you balance the excitement you have around a new technology, around a new potential problem to solve, with the opportunity in the market and building a sustainable business.”“If you build one without the other, if you have a great business plan, or you have some amazing idea but its not feasible, technically you’re not going to get very far.”“I also think the inverse is true, you can build amazing tech, but if you haven’t thought through the market for it, or the value proposition it offers. Whether its a market we’re use to or whether it is a completely new market that doesn’t mimic anything today, if you had to make a call on that side of your business that can be very challenging as well.” —Julian Moncada - 00:45:33
Blockchain and Future Tech from the Crow's Nest with Daniel Jefferies
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 14 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Science Fiction author, and futurist Daniel Jeffries.In this episode Trent Lapinskiand Daniel Jeffriesdiscuss cryptocurrency, blockchain, AI, future technology, and philosophy.
“We need to stop throwing the damn baby out with the bathwater, and assume that decentralized everything just works because it’s decentralized.”“These things that we have now, they are still in their earliest phase. We barely understand them. They are going to evolve into something so mind boggling different from what we have today.”“We have to look to each structure, and abstract out the things that work and create new mitigation systems that solve the problems of the existing ones, and when we make the next iteration we stand on the shoulders of giants.” — Daniel Jeffries - 00:43:48
The VC Approach In Today's Tech Markets with Steve Schlafman
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 13: An interview with venture capitalist Steve Schlafman from Primary Ventures.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Steve Schlafman discuss venture capital, leadership, executive coaching, and even mediation.
“For me I always ask myself is this an entrepreneur who that is special, talented, tenacious, and on a mission.”“Is this someone who can go and tell a great story, inspire potential employees, investors, partners. Is this someone who people are going to gravitate towards? In a competitive hiring environment, are they going to be able to build a World class team?”“I don’t need to see a huge amount of traction. I need to answer the question: Is there enough evidence or an unique insight that people want the product or service. I love founders that are incredibly focused on the customer. Is this someone who is just incredibly focused, and obsessed with the customer and solving their problem?” “Is this team on a journey that is important, bold, difficult, and inspiring? In someways does it make me uncomfortable because it is hard?”— Steve Schlafman - 00:27:01
University of Boulder Live Edition: Linh & David Smooke Speak at Disruptive Entrepreneurship Class
Hacker Noon Podcast addHacker Noon CEO David Smooke & COO Linh Dao Smooke recently spoke at University of Colorado Boulder's Disruptive Entrepreneurship class taught by Professor & Hacker Noon contributing writer Nathan Schneider. Learn more about Hacker Noon's equity crowdfunding campaign.
"On the internet right now, there is a massive battle going on between centralization and decentralization." - David
"It's what drives us everyday: we know that people want to read more, write more and that people rally behind us when we are threatened by an external source." - Linh
"Know that the obstacles are only a day, and tomorrow will be a new day and that obstacle won't be as bad, or maybe it'll be worse and day after will be better." -David
"It's the community that decides what we're gonna' look like - therefore we think it's the best reflection of the internet." -Linh
"We're people that built a company out of iteration, and we did not intend to make one of the most popular tech blogs." - David
"How can we reflect the internet? The merits should be the story and the story itself." - Linh
Learn more about Hacker Noon's equity crowdfunding campaign.
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Building an Effective Crypto Product with Miles Paschini from B21
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 12: An interview with entrepreneur Miles Paschini from B21.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Miles Paschini discuss what it takes to build an effective crypto product.
“In bear markets the good people go build products, and in the bull markets people speculate.”“Once you get to critical mass, theres a lot of friction that exists between the existing banking World, and the emerging crypto payments World.”“We’re all in, we believe that blockchain is the future. We believe that investing in the alternative asset class of crypto should be a part of people’s future portfolios. We need to get to a point as an industry where we can point to things and say, ‘hey this is a productized example where the blockchain is better’ and it is being used at scale. But, remember you’re building a community.” — Miles Paschini - 00:33:40
The Elusive Black Swan with David Kadavy
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 11: An interview with creative entrepreneur, best selling author, and podcaster David Kadavy.In this episode Trent Lapinski and David Kadavydiscuss elusive black swam moments, which are moments that describe an event that comes as a surprise and have a major effect.
“I had an event where my e-mail list went from 5,000 to 30,000 within a couple weeks. All these events, they kind of happened, and I did things to make them happen, but I couldn’t have predicted that they were going to happen. So I wondered to myself, how can you make black swans happen?”“They suffer from interacting with an issue I call irrational rationality. Which is the treating of absence of evidence as evidence of absence.” “It always really turned me off, the whole A/B testing obsession that there was in Silicon Valley… Well yeah, if you can use machine learning to do that, that’s even more reasons for you to try and ignore those activities. Then look for the activities that are low investment, but uncertain in outcome. That uncertain outcome may be a very positive outcome.” — David Kadavy - 00:35:50
Health Hacks with Casey Fenton of UpStock and CouchSurfing
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 10: Part 2 of an interview with Casey Fenton, CEO and Founder of UpStock (http://upstock.io), and Co-Founder of CouchSurfing (http://couchsurfing.org). Listen to Episode 9 for part 1 of this interview on Ego Hacking.
In this episode Trent and Casey discuss health hacks, how to live longer, and how to improve your overall health with simple tips and tricks.
"If you can get someone in your life who loves you, to help you hack yourself… to get you to think 'I care about my health, I care about my health, I want to live a healthy way for a long time.' Get someone to help you get that kernel, that little nugget that is health hacking, and that will grow."
"You will start to see all little things in your environment, all over the place, that corroborate and bolster of this identity that 'I care about my health, and I love myself,' and all that good stuff."- Casey Fenton
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Hacking The Ego with Casey Fenton of UpStock and CouchSurfing
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 9: In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Casey Fenton, CEO and Founder of UpStock (http://upstock.io), and Co-Founder of CouchSurfing (http://couchsurfing.org), who is working on a new book on ego hacking.
In this episode Trent and Casey discuss some of the techniques Casey has been researching and presenting that are going to be included in his new book which he's still working on.
"It is so important to think about how we become our identity. We have to be very careful with how we are programmed. What is in our identity? What does that cause? We automatically find more of it, whatever it is. A lot of the time the authentic self is intuitively what I feel in my heart and soul, but maybe that authentic self was programmed by society, maybe that was no programmed by you. Maybe that authentic self means self author."
"It is interesting, is the ego, is the identity, are the things inside me, are they self authored? Or are they authored by others? We want to rationalize who we are, we want to feel good. We want to say, 'oh well I made all that stuff,' but did we?" -Casey Fenton
Check out part two of this interview: Health Hacks with Casey Fenton
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Ending The Crypto Winter with Garry Tan and Brett Gibson of Initialized Capital
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 8: In this episode we sit down with Garry Tan and Brett Gibson of Initialized Capital and discuss emerging technologies such as cryptocurrency, blockchain, and what sets them apart from other venture capital firms.
"People are conditioned for 200 milliseconds at this point. Even waiting 5-seconds for a little spinner is not going to cut it."- Garry Tan
"Privacy is going to be a big deal for the blockchain and crypto technologies." - Brett Gibson
"It really is about those users, and what's their experience. We want to help other fellow hackers who are builders." - Garry Tan
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Crypto Unchained with Ralph Liu
Hacker Noon Podcast addEpisode 7: An interview with Ralph Liu, CEO and Founder of MuleChain.com. In this episode we discuss blockchain, supply chain management, logistics, and the delivery industry.
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