Description
Jeremy is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle, the financial technology company behind the USDC stablecoin. Before Circle, Jeremy co-founded several companies, including Brightcove and Allaire Corporation, which was acquired by Macromedia. Follow Jeremy on X @jerallaire.
0:00 - Jeremy’s career growth in parallel to the internet
10:06 - Comparing the first decade of internet adoption to the first decade of crypto innovation
18:37 - Why infrastructure innovation precedes application innovation
25:44 - What happens when the marginal cost of moving value approaches zero
33:59 - Crypto’s potential impact on existing institutions and society at large
43:19 - Jeremy’s thoughts on internet-native currencies
48:07 - The potential impacts of regulating crypto
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Thanks to Chase Devens for the show notes and Yiction for the music.
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