Tangent Fireside Chat: From Scaling a $3B Protocol to Investing as a Founder - Tascha Punyaneramitdee, Alpha Venture DAO, Ep. 212

Who best to understand struggles of crypto founders than fellow founders?    Tascha is the Co-Founder of Alpha Venture DAO and built a DeFi protocol that had a TVL of $3 billion at its peak.   Today, she joins us as a mentor in Tangent to share with us:   How Alpha scaled to $3B in deposits 2 crypto verticals Tascha is excited about How to identify great founders in 60 minutes   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice. ------------ Timestamps ------------- (00:00:00) – Introduction (00:02:42) – Early days of Alpha Finance (00:06:10) – Motivation behind building levered yield farming back in 2020 (00:09:44) – What is Alpha Venture (00:13:17) – How to be a successful founder (00:17:53) – Balancing between reinvention and solving pain points (00:26:07) – Key areas that Tascha is excited for (00:30:09) – Thought process for identifying market opportunity (00:32:11) – Identifying great founders to invest in (00:40:36) – Difficulties of running a crypto start-up ----------- Sponsors ------------- dYdX is the Leading Decentralized Exchange for trading perpetual contracts. Users enjoy low fees, deep liquidity, up to 20x more buying power and even earn $DYDX from trading. Trade on dYdX today at: https://trade.dydx.exchange   ----------- More Resources --------- Guest Taschas Twitter: https://twitter.com/tascha_panpan Alpha Venture DAO's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlphaVentureDAO   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi   ------------ Disclosures ------------- Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast ("Blockcrunch") is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch's guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch's podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.