MoneyNeverSleeps 243: Light Speed | Solana with Amira Valliani and Nick Ducoff

I’m joined this week by two of the great people I met at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam last month: Amira Valliani, Head of Policy, and Nick Ducoff, Head of Institutional Growth, both at the Solana Foundation.

Before my trip to Amsterdam in November for the Breakpoint conference, my engagement with the Solana community over the years had been lacking. At Breakpoint, I found a diverse community with a bunch of smart and engaging people building interesting projects, and I wanted to go deeper, hence this episode.

In this conversation, Amira and Nick both tell their personal stories about their path to the Solana Foundation and what they brought with them from their past lives as startup founders. We also riffed on my observations on the diversity of projects being built on the Solana blockchain from high-volume stablecoin networks to Triple-A games like the massive galactic game world that is Star Atlas, and we also covered what we would all like to see from web3 founders going forward.

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Episode title inspired by ‘Light Speed’ by Dr. Dre

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