EP 19: Matt Levine, Meme Stocks, Crypto Crash and Terrible Attempts at Crime

What this episode covers

(00:00) Intro (00:13) Intro Zach and Packy (01:07) Solana (05:14) Crypto Ecosystem (13:00) Crypto Use Cases (18:02) Crypto Investments (21:45) Elon’s Ultimatum (27:43) Billionaire Senate Run (32:04) VC Firm’s Scam & Media War (37:39) Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down (48:03) Matt Levine Intro (49:39) Leaving Goldman Sachs (52:26) Joining Deal Breaker (55:04) Choosing Topics (1:01:08) Crypto as a Lab for Financial Institutions (1:02:08) Deal Breaker to Bloomberg (1:07:00) Finance Bro Groupies (1:08:14) r/WallStreetBets (1:12:31) Insider Trading (1:15:17) Crypto (1:22:13) Elon and Twitter (1:25:08) Elon and the SEC (1:29:01) Writing on Unexpected Topics (1:31:16) Impact of Meme Stocks (1:33:11) Future Writing (1:34:51) Outro   Links:  VC threatened a media war against a start-up after unsolicited investment https://sifted.eu/articles/heroes-amazon-solid-capital/ Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/musk-s-tesla-ultimatum-return-to-office-or-work-somewhere-else https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531867103854317568?s=20&t=cKRzLoqnu1HMX-LPLCbZFQ Solana goes down for over 6 hours https://cryptopotato.com/solana-goes-down-for-over-6-hours-validators-prepare-for-restart/ Coinbase pauses new hiring and rescinds accepted offers https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-hiring-plans-bcedfa634989 US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/01/us-charges-ex-opensea-exec-with-nft-insider-trading/   Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir Executive Producer: Josh Machiz Music: Griff Lawson   🎙 Listen to the show  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cartoon-avatars/id1606770839 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=00fe3494b43a4e4c Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg    Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/cartoonavatars 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/cartoonavatars 🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars   About the Show A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise. Executive Producer: Rashad AssirProducer: Leah ClapperMixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow📱 X - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.Tap follow and enable notifications to stay ahead of the game.

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