0149 - Working in Blockchain with Kevin Matthews

Hosts: Anil Yadav and Andres Aboitiz We are very pleased to welcome Kevin Matthews from Coinbase. First, Kevin, could you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to be a Blockchain Operations Programme Manager for Coinbase? 1. What attracted you first to a career in the Blockchain industry? 2. Can you give us a sketch of the various actors that make up the ecosystem? 3. Is there a role for specialist consultants and tech consultancies? 4. Is the approach taken for programme management just the same as in other software centric sectors? [that is, working with diverse product owners, project management, software lifecycle, product portfolios?] 5. Where do new product ideas come from? [internal 20% projects; inside/outside entrepreneurs] 6. What new organisational forms do you envisage based on DAOs? 7. Finance and Banking has evolved over a long time rather than being designed for purpose - ancient (if not ‘antiquated’) industrial structures. How can they co-exist with distributed finance, distributed ledgers? [example of custody-of-assets?] 8. Where do you see this sector in the next 5+ years? [emerging trends in Crypto, DAOs and NFTs] Acknowledgements Music Title: Check Them In Artist: Ema Grace Source: https://bit.ly/2tJ6Bnd License: CC BY 4.0 Artist notes: Ema Grace is an AI vocaloid produced by Ryoma MAEDA (@Ryoma_Maeda). Styled as virtual Singer&Idol 架空のバーチャルアイドル & シンガー、それがEma Grace. Cover Art Title: Guest Billboard Artist: Allen Higgins Source: License: Podcast License Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.