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SALT Talks
by SALT
SALT Talks is a series of digital interviews with the world's foremost investors, creators and thinkers. To learn more about each episode, visit salt.org/talks
Episodes
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How Blockchain Solves A.I. Concerns with Casper Labs CEO Mrinal Manohar | SALT Talks #310
Anthony Scaramucci sat down with Mrinal Manohar, co-founder and CEO of the layer-1 blockchain infrastructure company Casper Labs, to discuss how blockchain tech and artificial intelligence can work together, Casper Labs' blockchain enterprise solutions and the company's exciting next steps that...
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Writing Crypto's Next Chapter with Galaxy's Steve Kurz | SALT Talks #309
Steve Kurz is the Global Head of Asset Management at Galaxy and a member of Galaxy’s founding team. Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader providing access to the growing digital economy, spanning three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital...
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Building Crypto's Layer-1 Future with Figment's CEO | SALT Talks #308
Lorien Gabel is founder and CEO of Figment, a crypto infrastructure company that provides comprehensive staking solutions for 250+ institutional clients. Gabel joined Anthony Scaramucci and John Darsie to discuss his eclectic childhood, his path to serial entrepreneurship and his journey to…
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Modern Alternative Investing with iCapital Co-Founder | SALT Talks #307
iCapital Co-Founder Dan Vene discusses the evolution of alternative investing and iCapital’s role connecting financial advisors and asset managers. Dan then explains iCapital’s latest product rollouts, Marketplace and Architect. Finally, he offers his thoughts on the current investing environment...
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Managing Risk With Alternative Credit | SALT Talks #306
Prime Meridian Capital executive team members Don Davis (CEO) and Sean Bill (CIO) discuss the success of the firm's multiple credits funds amid difficult market conditions. They explain their firm's approach to risk management, share their view of the The Fed and interest rates, and offer…
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Deloitte Brings Institutional Guidance to Digital Assets | SALT Crypto #305
Richard Rosenthal and Roy Ben-Hur are key figures within Deloitte Advisory, both working within the fast-growing world of blockchain and digital assets. Richard is a principal in Deloitte's Advisory practice. He leads complex & transformative projects, supporting banking, crypto-native and…
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Miles Nadal: Keys to Entrepreneurship & Partnership | SALT Talks #304
Miles S. Nadal is an international entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of Peerage Capital, a leading North American business services and private investment firm focused on real estate services, real estate investment, self storage, wealth...
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Dave Ripley: Crypto Leadership with Kraken's Incoming CEO | SALT Crypto #303
Dave Ripley is the incoming Chief Executive Officer at Kraken, a global digital asset exchange. Before becoming Kraken’s CEO, Dave served as Chief Operating Officer at Kraken for over six years, playing an instrumental role in growing the company to be one of the largest crypto exchanges in the...
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Alan Knitowski: Owning Your Digital Identity with Blockchain Tech | SALT Talks #302
Alan S. Knitowski is President, CEO and Co-Founder of Phunware. He is a successful serial entrepreneur with multiple exits over a 15 year period to companies including Cisco Systems. He is a 2014 Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for Central Texas and has been a...
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Tushar Jain: Blockchain, Crypto & Real-World Change | SALT Crypto #301
Tushar Jain is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, which is one of the largest and most established crypto-focused investment firms in the world. The firm manages billions in assets across liquid and illiquid strategies in the crypto markets, and is known for its...
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John D'Agostino: Market Cycles & Digital Assets | SALT Crypto #300
John D’Agostino is a Senior Advisor at Coinbase, overseeing strategic partnerships for the business. John brings deep experience with sophisticated private investment vehicles characterized by complex strategies and asset classes, notably derivatives, structured credit, direct lending, high...
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Lily Liu: Solana & The Future of DeFi | SALT Crypto 299
Lily Liu is the President of the Solana Foundation. She is an entrepreneur and investor focused on the cryptocurrency industry. She has a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US, China, and throughout emerging markets. Lily is the Co Founder of Anagram, and part of the founding team...
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Bill Barhydt: A World Powered by Crypto | SALT Crypto 298
Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading digital asset wealth management platform. Prior to Abra, Bill was CEO of Boom Financial and WebSentric. He was also VP at Goldman Sachs and served as a research engineer at NASA and the CIA. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill...
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Jamie Thomson: Vulcan Forged & The Future of Blockchain Gaming | SALT Talks 297
Jamie Thomson is the CEO of Vulcan Forged, a premium blockchain game studio, dApp incubator and cross-chain NFT marketplace. Vulcan Forged is the creator of popular web3 gaming titles such as VulcanVerse, Forge Arena, Berserk and over 15 other games and dApps with over 200,000 users in the...
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Lynn Baranski: Private Equity in the Current Macro Environment | SALT Talks #296
Lynn Baranski, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Investments for BlackRock Private Equity Partners (PEP) within BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). She is a member of the BAI Exco and PEP's Management Committee, Investment Committee, and Valuation Committee. Baranski discusses the macro...
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Dan Morehead: Crypto & the Macro Environment | SALT Crypto #295
Dan Morehead is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital. Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage...
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Akbar Thobhani: Crypto Spring is Coming | SALT Crypto #294
Akbar Thobhani is the co-founder and CEO of sFOX, a full-service crypto prime broker bringing together liquidity, best price execution, dark pool access, treasury management, custody and settlement services all together in one trading platform and API. Prior to co-founding sFOX, Thobhani served…
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David Mercer: TradFi & DeFi Converge | SALT Crypto #293
David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, a global financial technology company headquartered in the UK, and the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. Following a successful management buyout in 2013, David has built…
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Hendrik Hofstadt: Bridging the Blockchain Divide | SALT Crypto #292
Hendrik Hofstadt currently serves as a Director of the Wormhole Foundation. The Foundation has a mission of fostering development of the Wormhole protocol, a communication bridge between different public blockchains. Hendrik is also the chairman of the supervisory board at Neodyme AG. Prior to...
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Kerry Healey: Advancing the American Dream | SALT Talks #291
Kerry Healey is President of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. Her career spans higher education, elected office, and foreign and domestic policy. Previously, Healey served as Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor where, among her many achievements, was integral in crafting the...
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Daniel Silva: Forgery & Fraud in Art | SALT Talks #290
Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. His latest book, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, once again follows Allon as he undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger...
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Adrian Aoun: Healthcare on Every Corner | SALT Talks #289
Adrian Aoun is the founder and CEO of Forward, an AI-based healthcare system combining world-class private doctors with new technology to enable proactive, data-driven primary care. Most recently, he was the head of Special Projects for the CEO of Google/Alphabet, where he founded one of the...
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Luca Cosentino: Embedded Crypto Infrastructure | SALT Crypto #288
Luca Cosentino is the Head of Crypto at Cross River which focuses on building technology that will enable FinTech players to offer crypto-based products to their users. He joined Cross River in July 2021 to close the gap between the 2.5 billion people who have access to digital banking services…
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Nelson Chu: Democratizing Private Credit | SALT Talks #286
Nelson Chu is the founder and CEO of Percent, a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Chu discusses...
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Mike Cahill: On-Chain Financial Data | SALT Crypto #285
Mike Cahill is the Director of the Pyth Data Association, the Swiss association behind the Pyth network, a decentralized oracle solution that brings financial data across asset classes on-chain – directly from the source. Based in Porto, Mike is also the head of European business development for...
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Rich Caputo: Private Equity Today | SALT Talks #284
Rich Caputo is the Chief Executive Partner of The Jordan Company, a New York-based private equity firm focused on investments in middle-market companies across a range of industries. Mr. Caputo serves as Chairman of the Firm's Partnership Board and Executive Committee and is a director of a…
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Dr. P. Jillian Bethel: Crypto in The Bahamas | SALT Crypto #283
Dr. P. Jillian Bethel is CEO of OKX for the Bahamas and a lifelong champion of the Bahamian crypto community. Jillian is an entrepreneur and former obstetrician-gynecologist who became interested in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies while leading international health management and...
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Ben Sparango: Solana Summer 2.0 | SALT Crypto #282
Ben Sparango is the Head of Business Development at Solana Labs, a leading Layer-1 blockchain protocol, where he focuses on DeFi payments, gaming, NFTs and DAOs. Prior to Solana, Sparango was an investment analyst at Multicoin Capital, a multi-strategy crypto fund. Sparango tells his journey to...
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Staci Warden: The Algorand Renaissance | SALT Crypto #281
Staci Warden is the CEO of the Algorand Foundation, an organization dedicated to enabling an inclusive, decentralized, and borderless global economy - at scale - based on the Algorand blockchain technology, a leading layer-1 blockchain. Before, she spent a career in traditional finance (TradFI)...
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Gary Mendell: Reversing the Addiction Crisis | SALT Talks #280
Gary Mendell is the founder and CEO of Shatterproof, a national nonprofit dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis in the United States. After losing his son Brian to addiction in 2011, Gary founded Shatterproof to spare other families the tragedy his had suffered. Mendell recounts the tragedy...
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Troy Tsui: Building a Multichain Future | SALT Crypto #279
Troy Tsui is the CEO of Swim Protocol - a DeFi Protocol bridging the multichain landscape with user adoption and protocol integration in mind. He was previously a trader at Alameda Research since 2018. Prior to his time at Alameda, Troy was a trader on SIG’s Fixed Income desk, where he designed...
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Alan Murray: Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business | SALT Talks #278
Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media, authored his latest book, Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. Murray also writes a closely read daily newsletter, the Fortune CEO Daily. This follows a long media career that's included leadership positions at Pew Research Center and the...
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Dr. Derar Islim: Growing Institutional Crypto Adoption | SALT Crypto #277
Dr. Derar Islim is the COO at Genesis Trading, a digital currency prime broker. He is responsible for managing strategic initiatives, integrating new services, coordinating daily business operations, and executing on Genesis’s global vision to build the world’s preeminent prime brokerage in the...
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Kristin Smith: Future of U.S. Crypto Policy | SALT Crypto #276
Kristin Smith is the Executive Director of the Blockchain Association, the Washington DC-based trade association representing more than 80 of the industry’s leading companies. Smith serves as a liaison between policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry to assist in the creation of legislation…
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George Melika: Crypto Prime Brokerage | SALT Crypto #275
George Melika is the Co-Founder and CEO of sFOX, a cryptocurrency prime brokerage backed by Social+Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. He is a fintech expert with over 20 years of software development experience building algorithmic, proprietary, and cryptocurrency trading platforms.…
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Dan Gunsberg: Moving Traditional Finance to the Blockchain | SALT Crypto #274
Dan Gunsberg is the co-founder and CEO of Hxro. He's also the co-founder of Hxro Network, a decentralized derivatives protocol built on top of the Solana blockchain. He also serves as the director of the Hxro Foundation. Prior to Hxro, Gunsberg served as the COO of DV Trading, a…
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Asen Kostadinov: Solving the Crypto Custody Problem | SALT Crypto #273
Asen Kostadinov is the Chief Strategy Officer at Copper, cryptocurrency custody firm. He joined the company from MMC Ventures where he led the blockchain/crypto investment portfolio and also led the fund’s research department. Previously, he spent four years as an equity research analyst at...
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Robin Wigglesworth: The Rise & Future of Index Funds | SALT Talks #272
Robin Wigglesworth is the FT’s global finance correspondent, based in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance more broadly across the world, with a particular focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing, and writing longer-form...
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Billionaire Orlando Bravo: Unveiling the Secrets of Private Equity | Salt Talks #271
Orlando Bravo is a Puerto Rican billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm that specializes in software and technology-enabled services sectors. The 2019 Forbes 400 listed Bravo as the first Puerto Rican-born billionaire....
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PlanB: When Will Bitcoin Hit $100k? | SALT Crypto #270
PlanB @100trillionUSD is a former institutional investor with 25 years of experiences in financial markets and has a legal and quantitative finance background. By tapping to both the S2F and the logarithmic regression, PlanB suggested that the primary cryptocurrency will reach $100k by the end of...
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Spencer Jakab: GameStop, Reddit & the Fleecing of Small Investors | SALT Talks #269
Spencer Jakab, the Editor of the Heard on the Street column in The Wall Street Journal, has written a splendidly entertaining account of the meme stock craze: “The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors.” During one crazy week in January 2021, a motley crew…
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Dr. Mark Epstein: The Zen of Therapy | SALT Talks #268
Dr. Mark Epstein is an American author and psychotherapist who integrates Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings with Sigmund Freud's approaches to trauma. He often writes about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy. In The Zen of Therapy, Dr. Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions...
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Ben Nelson: Rethinking Higher Education | SALT Talks #267
Ben Nelson is the Founder of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions...
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Raghu Yarlagadda: Tokenization & the Future of Financial Markets | SALT Talks #266
Raghu is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, one of the largest and fastest growing digital asset brokerages. Raghu believes most of world's value will be tokenized in the next 5 to 7 years, and Crypto is the first usecase of that. Fiat is getting tokenized with Stablecoins and culture + art with...
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Steve Kokinos: The Future of Finance | SALT Talks #265
Steve is the CEO of Algorand and responsible for overall business vision and strategy. Algorand is a blockchain cryptocurrency protocol that aims to be scalable. The Algorand platform supports smart contracts, and its consensus algorithm is based on proof of stake and a Byzantine agreement...
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Afsaneh Beschloss: Where Is Inflation Heading? | SALT Talks #264
Afsaneh Beschloss discusses her distinguished career in finance, including her roles as founder and CEO of RockCreek, a leading global investment firm, her time as treasurer and chief investment officer of the World Bank, and as managing director and partner at the Carlyle Group. Overall, prices...
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Avik Roy: Bitcoin & the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning | SALT Talks #263
Avik Roy is an Editor at Forbes and the President of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. In his recent article "Bitcoin and the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning" Avok writes "It's becoming clear that Bitcoin is not merely a passing fad, but a significant innovation with potentially serious...
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Joshua Frank: The State of the Crypto Markets | SALT Talks #262
Joshua Frank is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, a crypto-focused data company that analyzes social media and news sources to create sentiment analysis. Prior to co-founding The Tie, Frank worked at SS&C Technologies where he helped develop solutions for custodians, brokers and asset managers.…
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Jeremy Allaire: Internet Money | SALT Talks #261
Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. Founded in 2013, Circle is the pioneer of USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing,...
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Bitcoin for Billions: Building the Lightning Network with Elizabeth Stark | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘
Bitcoin for Billions: Building the Lightning Network with Elizabeth Stark, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Lightning Labs. Moderated by Brett Messing, Partner, President & Chief Operating Officer, SkyBridge. —————————————————————— Watch this video on YouTube:...
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SALT Talks is a series of digital interviews with the world's foremost investors, creators and thinkers. To learn more about each episode, visit salt.org/talks
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