Predicting the Future of Web3

0:00And someone I met on Lunch Club basically said, you know, all the stuff you do in your free time like meeting people and writing online and stuff like you would get paid to do that if you were in venture. And his advice to me was to get on Twitter. He basically said like you pick an industry and you follow people, follow the smartest people in that given industry and then very quickly you get like an IV into the brain of like what the smartest people are reading, writing, who they hang out with, how they spend their free time. Um and all all of this kind of stuff and

0:27then you get a really good bird's-eye view of like what the ecosystem looks like and very shortly after getting on Twitter is how I got my first job in venture.

0:39Gabby, thank you so much for taking the time. We're uh stoked to uh stoked to have you here. It's super casual format. Um you know, you might have heard some of them in the past. It's like Yeah. the furthest thing from an interview. We're just going to kind of I you know, I sent over some topics obviously and some stuff that we want to jam through, but basically just like open format, talk about anything that you know, you, we, etc. find interesting. Um feel free to call call us idiots, push back on things, etc. Uh more than open to uh to being told we're wrong on on any and

1:08everything, but have been um have been really excited to have a chance to to have you on and to have this discussion for for a while now, so I'm glad we're finally getting to do it. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm a long-time listener. Long-time listener, first-time caller. Thanks for having me. And you're a you're a fellow Stanford grad, so I'm uh

1:26Yeah. I'm already like positively inclined towards you as a result of that. Um but uh can can we just actually start with like very quickly um how you wound your way into or found your way rather into the um into the Web3 world. Like what what had you kind of gone down the rabbit hole in college and then you know, it was the natural place for you to jump into. Now you're obviously you know, an investor at at TCG, you know, the Turning Group, an amazing investment shop doing a lot as a as a thought leader in the space on Twitter and everywhere else, but would love to just

1:59understand like what your kind of like idea maze or like your path into this all was. Yeah. Also, how old are you? I'm 22 for one more week. Okay. Oh, there we go. Happy birthday. Well, by the time this is released, it'll you'll be 23 probably then. Okay. Amazing. It's my birthday present. I have I have like a a short answer and a long answer. So, the short answer is through college and basically during COVID all of my smartest friends were quitting their jobs to work in crypto that was kind of the diligence I needed to go down the rabbit hole myself and figure out what was going on. The long

2:31answer and then I can kind of get to the shorter one is I actually grew up selectively mute, which is like not many people know what it is and it's also interesting cuz I can't shut up now, but basically when I was a kid for like 5 years I didn't say anything. It's sort of like a manifestation of anxiety or something like that. I actually have like

2:49How old? Like 5 to 9 basically. And I don't have a ton of memory of like why it happened or what was going on, but the collateral, which is important to know and it's why I bring it up, is because of that I spent a ton of my time online. So, I think I was kind of like early to the internet like spending a lot of time on RuneScape and Minecraft and Club Penguin. I had a Tumblr blog. I was actually talking to someone right before this and like was looking at the hits on my blog. People are like still looking at it, I think. Which is crazy

3:18and then I had like a music blog where I was writing about music and generally like from early on was always finding community in digital spaces because I think I couldn't find it otherwise. So, then when I got to Stanford, I studied symbolic systems, which you know, Sahil. It sounds really cool. It's actually like one of the most popular majors, so it's not that interesting, but it's kind of a combination of computer science, philosophy,

3:40linguistics, and psychology. And I was concentrating in human-computer interaction, thinking about things like social computing, like how do you grow and moderate computing social computing systems anywhere from like Wikipedia to Facebook. I was working in the virtual reality lab, doing stuff like that. So, all feels super similar to what I'm working on now, but at the time like still wasn't really down the rabbit hole. Um I first bought crypto in 2017 for something that I can't say on the podcast cuz I was still a kid. Um but honestly didn't do the work to learn

4:15about it. Silk Road. Yeah. So, I I I like wasn't doing the work to actually learn about like what was going on from a technical perspective. It was purely financial. So, then when it crashed, I like quite literally sold it all. So, it wasn't until early 2021 that I actually fell into the space. By that time, I was working at Bessemer Venture Partners doing

4:34Okay. early stage consumer investing. And so, basically like looking across consumer social, consumer marketplaces, a bunch of creator tools, like the creator economy was alive and well. And I was looking at all these companies like the Cameos and the Kickstarters and the Patreons of the world, etc. that basically all allowed us to build and operate and fund the products and services and people that we engage with every day, but we didn't have any way to collectively own them. And so, I kind of felt a disconnect that way. Um that paired with hanging out at the Bright Moments Gallery in LA um when they had first launched and hanging out with a

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8:24won't regret it. So, you hit on both in the short version and the long version a few really interesting things that I want to double down on. One um was just like this idea of following your smart friends. Um I've written about this in the past. Like, I I think it was Chris Dixon first talked about it the weekend test. Um like, figure out what are the weekend projects of your smartest friends and the smartest people in your circles because those are likely to be the

8:50things that everyone does in 10 years. And I feel that with crypto. Like, it was just I don't know. In like '14 and '15, some of my smartest friends were starting to toy around with this stuff. Like, when I was at Stanford or just after Stanford. Um and then, you know, during the bear markets, like, after the crashes, a lot of my smart friends were starting to think about like and still working on projects in the space. And so, if I had been smart, which I'm not, I'm an idiot. Um I didn't go down the

9:15rabbit hole as much as I should have. And it was actually when I finally said and convinced myself, like, after this most recent bull run, I was like, I'm never letting one of those opportunities pass me again where all of my smart friends are doing something or thinking about something and I'm somehow ignoring it. And so, now my new rule of thumb, for what it's worth, is if I have three smart friends tell me something, I automatically make a bet on it. Even if it's like a small bet. I just have a stock amount that I'll put into it so that I have some skin in the game that I

9:43can then go and like double down on if I want to learn more about it. The other one on top of it is just like invest in your friends. And I kind of got burned by not doing that multiple times this year. Smart friends either starting companies, but kind of more specifically cuz I saw the turnaround of like my inaction starting NFT projects like kind of during the bull run. I wasn't sure how seriously I should take them, but knowing my friends and how hard they work and how thoughtful they are, some of the coolest projects and now I'm like shilling them on my Twitter and I have no bags in them and I can't

10:14afford them anymore. Um so I totally agree. The one thing I want to Yeah, the one thing I want to add to that is you know, a lot of people I don't know how to say this without A lot of people don't have smart friends um or don't have friends who are starting companies and stuff like that. We you know, we were talking about that um with Julian Smith um yesterday Sahil. I think the pod will be out by the time we we we publish this which is um Yeah, I it's just it's not uncommon that if you're not from a major city, you don't you don't have that. And I think

10:53the the way to sort of counter balance that is you don't even need to have friends. Like your your friends quote unquote could be like people that you follow on Twitter, podcasts you listen to which is what I love about the world we live in 2022 which is you know, these are your like personal Sahil and I have talked about like your

11:13personal board of advisors. Like you don't need to be friends with Sahil and I, you know, if you think we're smart and you can just like think about what would Sahil do? Like what would you know, what's a framework he would do to to to approach this problem? Yeah, and talking like Sorry, it's also like how I got into venture. I was working abroad right before COVID. I just like candidly didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I was working out in HR SaaS startup in Israel. I just like wanted to learn the language. I wanted to live on

11:43my own there. Um and I was using Lunchclub like that app to meet up with people who are like working in tech in your area. And someone I met on Lunchclub basically said, you know, all the stuff you do in your free time like meeting people and writing online and stuff like you would get paid to do that if you were in venture. And his advice to me was to get on Twitter. He basically said like you pick an industry and you follow people, follow the smartest people in that given industry. And then very quickly you get like an IV into the brain of like what

12:11the smartest people are reading, writing, who they hang out with, how they spend their free time, um and all all of this kind of stuff. And then you get a really good bird's-eye view of like what the ecosystem looks like. And very shortly after getting on Twitter is how I got my first job in venture. Yeah, I mean these opportunities have been um decentralized. Like you no longer need to have gone to Stanford or be at

12:32Stanford in order to have smart friends. I mean you even said it from earlier in your life. Like when you were dealing with that, you know, that adversity of um of what you mentioned when you were a kid, you sought out online communities. And that was like before the boom in online communities, too. That was like the early days of it. But today, I mean with the proliferation of the internet and cheap and free internet, um a kid, you know, born on the streets in India, has the opportunity to do that and participate in those communities and be in Discords and learning and being around those friends

13:02um you know, in a pretty similar way. And so there is like a an evening of the opportunity playing field globally that is simply amazing, I think, that has happened over the last five or so years. Um and will likely just continue to accelerate at an exponential pace, hopefully. So um pretty exciting to uh to hear that and walk through it. I do want to um I want to transition to just talking about some Web3 ideas and things that are happening in the space while we have you cuz um the timing of filming this is actually pretty phenomenal. Like I'm glad we didn't film it 2 months ago or whenever

13:36we first started chatting about it because a lot has happened you know in the space over the last couple of months. A huge crash you know being one of them. We've all seen the news on it. Every media you know mainstream media companies like dunking on crypto as though it's all everything's a scam you know Web3 versus Web2 is like the new hot debate on Twitter and people are like fighting and doing podcasts debating it which is just like fun as a casual observer to to to just kind of like enjoy the the roasts in both directions but a lot's going on and you know the reality is always that

14:10there are shades of gray. Nothing's ever black and white at least in my opinion and so I'd love to just like pick a few ideas within Web3 you know trends ideas concepts etc. and just you know have a have an open discussion around them if if that works. Yeah, let's do it. So can we start on work to earn? I I want to I want to talk about I want to talk about step in. Is it called step in or step step in? I don't know how you how

14:37you pronounce it. Okay, step in. Step in. So for people who aren't aware of this and I wasn't prior to I don't know maybe a week ago or so. This is kind of part of this whole and you guys by the way are much closer to this so please correct me if I say

14:52anything stupid. This is part of this whole trend within Web3 called work to earn. So you know basic idea being you can like provide some service or do some work or something and earn as a result of that. Sounds kind of funny as like a concept because that's what we've always done. Like I've gone to work and earned money and so like that's that's a general idea that people should understand but there have been several companies actually who have been extraordinarily successful in doing this. Like Helium is probably the one that comes to mind for me. That was an early player in this. Helium provides what is it like Wi-Fi connectivity

15:30effectively in a decentralized way, which is a really cool use case actually. And when I think about about Helium, you know, you could go in the early days of it buy a Helium hotspot and basically you would pay some upfront you know, capital to invest in one of these hotspots. You'd put it somewhere and people could leverage the um the Wi-Fi capacity you were creating with your hotspot in order to and pay you basically to use the the bandwidth you were creating. And so you could kind of Sorry to interrupt, but like the other super interesting thing there is like Helium wasn't always like a token based

16:08or kind of like crypto based company. Like they had this vision of a decentralized wireless network and they were doing it for a while. And then it I think it was in 2017 they basically went bankrupt. And I think it was an engineer at the company who said, "Hey, what if we used these cryptographic tokens to incentivize people to buy and run the

16:26hotspots?" And they tried it out and like that's how Helium became what it is today. That's really cool. It's like my favorite case study. I didn't know that. It's very cool and it's very cool because it's um it's an industry like utilities are a massively stayed industry, right? It's like a monopoly and it's it's like a sanctioned monopoly at the national level where there's just a few companies that are allowed to do this and the capital intensity of starting a new one is too high so no one can do it. And so doing it in a decentralized way sort of makes sense. Helium has been extraordinarily successful. Greg, you

16:57and I talked about um Anthony Levandowski, the uh the auto guy who got pardoned by Trump had um uh started Pollen Mobile, which is another one that's doing mobile um that I think is doing quite well actually and it's the same thing as Helium basically, but they're doing mobile um hotspots that you can you can buy. So there's this like general um space that's been developing and growing. I think those are some really cool use cases. But now, in comes this company, Stepn, which is a sub-segment of work to earn called, I don't know, move to earn or walk to

17:34earn. And the basic idea, I think, is you buy like an NFT of a sneaker, and that's kind of like your car your ticket to ticket to ride, like your entry cost. And then, you digitally, you know, using wearables, etc., track your movement, and you get paid in the tokens of the game for moving, like for walking. And so, people in the early days of it were literally like you'd go walk and you'd earn tokens. And as more and more people started to pick up on this, you know, on this game or on this community, the cost of the NFTs was going up, the minting cost for kind of getting a

18:12sneaker was going up, and the value of the tokens was going up because more and more people were participating and finding value in it, and so it was kind of driving it up. So, the people that were in early made like pretty astronomical sums of money, I think, by literally just walking and and participating in this. So, with that as a preface, I want to talk about this both in a specific case and then in a more general case, but would love your guys' thoughts on on this because I have very strong thoughts on it. I want to I want to put it out first before I dive into

18:41mine. Yeah, I have maybe I'll start off with like a general statement and then kind of explaining how the token economy works, and then I'll talk about the good parts of it, and then I'll I'll get into the good stuff, if that sounds good. That sounds great. I think generally, the financial gamification of stuff like fitness is super interesting, and it's sort of like how a lot of people in Web3 beg for a better Strava. There are a lot of these companies that in Web2 have a really strong online community. You know, in Strava's case, there's like a fitness-first or like take SoundCloud,

19:13it has a music first ethos. Quote-unquote permissionless in the sense that anybody can post and create on the platform, right? Like anybody can use Strava and kind of like build their own social network there. But then like the most important part is the monetization model of these Web2 products is pretty weak. And so there's like a huge opportunity for disruption in Web3. Um so generally I think it's really interesting and I was really interested in STEPN when it first came out. I should have used it. I like have had the app for a while and I love to run and I just like never got around to

19:43like actually using it, which maybe is a good thing. I probably like who knows. But anyway, um kind of how how the app's economy actually works is it's based on two tokens, GST and GMT. So GST is this unlimited token that you use inside the game, and then the GMT token is like the governance token, which is capped and it's deflationary. So in the app, you can get both. I'm pretty sure you get GST on day one just by like every minute of walking and depending on how fast you're walking or what sneakers you have, you'll get GST. And then GMT, I think you don't unlock until you reach

20:19a higher level. It's like level 30 or something like that. And then you can spend your GST to like repair your sneakers and mint new sneakers and level up and stuff like that. Um I think because of how the token economy works, it's been pretty interesting because like you said, established players can make money, but it's still accessible and like price friendly for newer players. The other thing that I think is super smart that STEPN did that I wish I saw in more Web3 dApps, especially in

20:45games, is they have their own wallet. Like when you think about it, think about all these Web3 dApps that are actually pretty consumer friendly. Like let's say you love electronic music. Like you can go on to any of these Web3 music sites and see like digital native, Web3 native artists who are putting out amazing music. And then the first step to get involved is connect wallet. Oh, I don't have a wallet. Like immediate churn, right? Why would I use it? But with STEPN, it's like you get on, it's like, "Oh, interesting. Here's a financial incentive for me to try it out. You don't have a wallet, make one right

21:13here." And I think it's a huge reason why it did so well. Um and I think it like really deserves props for that. But I guess now, the question everyone's asking is like, "How long until the music stops, right?" Like Yeah, how is this not a Ponzi scheme? That's like my my question. So, I mean, like to cut to the chase, the in-game economy is not sustainable as it is. STEPN has a lot of time to figure it out. So, I'll kind of explain why it doesn't work. And by no means am I like a game economy expert, so this is

21:40very high-level. Um but also just kind of like sidebar, it's really funny. Literally yesterday, someone on my team texted our group chat a picture of a literal NYC subway ad for a STEPN competitor Huh. called Step. Walk to earn, same thing. It's crazy. So, it's already coming out. And like at the end of the day, like whichever one is the best token model is where

22:02consumers are going to go, right? But basically, um and credit to Amanda Young, she wrote this really amazing Mirror piece about STEPN and the in-game economy. And like this was really helpful for me to understand. Yeah. Basically, when we think about virtual game economies, there has to be a balance between the faucets and sinks. So, it's a balance between the rate at which assets are issued into the game and the rate at which assets are consumed. So, you have like stuff in equals stuff out, right? Like you have to have a balance. So, the problem we're seeing with STEPN today is the current sinks are net inflationary. So, the

22:36current sinks on STEPN today are like repairing your sneakers, leveling them up. And what it does is it leads to increasing or restoring the emission rate of GST and GMT. Um I also read another piece from Nat Eliason. I don't know if he's come on the podcast, but he should come on. Not yet. He's great, though. He's like a STEPN maxi, or like he was

22:53using it a ton. But he basically brought up that STEPN has this runaway sneaker breeding problem because there's no burn mechanism in place for getting rid of all of the excess sneakers. Like people are minting and minting and minting and so eventually they're all going to become worthless or you're going to have way too many people getting top-level sneakers with the highest earnings which

23:12would result in the token price falling. So you're kind of at this standstill now and even if you go into Dune Analytics and check out the STEPN dashboards, you'll see the amount people are minting new sneakers has slowed down and people have been withdrawing from the game for a few weeks now I think because they

23:27realized that like the music might stop. So Mhm. what can they do? I think what they can do like I have this framework for consumer that I actually created when I was mostly investing in web 2 but I think it carries over and it's four questions that I ask. Why do people come? Why do people share? Why do people stay? And

23:47why do people pay? Um and two of the questions are kind of related here. I think when it comes to web 3, people can certainly come for a financial incentive, right? Like LooksRare is another good example. Um their airdrop tokens and now you're incentivized to go check it out cuz you have a stake in the business.

24:02I made bank on that by the way. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. We talked about that on the pod at one point. That was like my last foray into like speculative web 3 stuff. Yeah, I mean we'll see. It's it's super interesting. But so people so people can come for a financial incentive but if they're staying for a financial incentive, um I think that's a problem. People should be staying especially if it's a game, they should be staying for the love of the game. So STEPN can make the user experience better, right? They can make it more social. They can make it feel less about money. Um and maybe also

24:31figure out a way to bring external cash into the business which I think is something they're trying to do. Maybe bring on like partnerships like they have the partnership. Bring on like local vendors, stuff like that. Yeah, that's So first off, I love that framework. Why do people come? Why do people share? Why do people stay? Why do people pay? Just to reiterate it. I think that's like an amazingly uh like beautiful crisp simple way to think about these things. So thank you for sharing that cuz I think that's awesome and it's a great one for people

24:59to remember and take away from this. My whole thing with these models and and I we talked about it with Jiho from Axie Infinity when we had him on um and it was before they had kind of their crash in the token a little bit as well and the hack and and all of that stuff. So, I'd love to actually have him back on for more of a discussion, but my challenge with all of these models is like there has to be utility net of the money you can make from these things in order for it to be um like creating value long-term. Like I I look at it and I

25:29just say like where is the money from? The money is from new people buying into it and you're paying out rewards from new people buying in. That to me I'm like that's the definition of a Ponzi scheme when I look at it and I'm like, you know, I I come in and I'm getting paid from the rewards of new people coming in and so it's like a pyramid that you're just creating where new and new people need to keep grow like it needs to keep growing. And so, when you mention partnerships when I was thinking about it like how do you fix this problem and create a sustainable

25:54ecosystem. Um the two that I came to were like community value and partnerships. And so, partnerships I think is really interesting because they have sneakers, right? Like how much would Nike pay to have you be able to pay extra to get like a Nike branded sneaker within this game? If this becomes this amazing thriving community and all of a sudden I can like pay more to have I mean it's basically like what Fortnite has with dope skins in the game, right? Like how much would I pay to have dope, you know, Nike shoes in this game where now I'm like it's a digital flex in the same way

26:26that people like to flex in Fortnite with their cool skins. So, now do you have like it's not just money from new users coming in. Now I have a partnership where there's net new dollars coming into the system that can be used to you know, invest in growth in it, build out new functionality, you know, track different activities, foster the community, host live events. Like there's all sorts of new things then and I think that that net external money coming in and partnerships would allow you to kind of like build out real community value where now you have people that are deriving value from this not just from the money they're earning

27:00from it, but also from the camaraderie and the feeling of connectivity to other people who are STEPN users which like that's a huge thing, right? I mean I'm like you'd pay to be a part of communities where you feel a sense of connection with, you know, the people around you. People pay for social clubs all the time. Could this become like a social club feeling where you're actually generating utility and feeling positive irrespective of whether or not you made money on it, you just want to be a part of this community. So, that was where I was shaking out on it. It was like it looks like a Ponzi scheme to

27:29me. Um I feel like it's going to come crashing down, but is there a path where you can kind of play with some of these things and it continues to grow to the point of viability? Probably. I think the the smartest thing that STEPN did was make it invite-only basically. You need an access code to Like Gabby, I don't even know if you'd be able to download it and and use it today. I I still think you

27:55need an access code. And you know, there's this uh I think Andy Warhol said or one of the founders of Studio 54 said this great quote which I think applies to building social products and web 3 products which is um Studio 54 was a dictatorship at the door, but a democracy on the dance

28:17floor. And funny you say that. It's like my favorite quote ever. Yeah. I mean it's It's a late checkout. it again, Greg? Yeah. So Uh Studio 54 for those of you don't know, by the way, like famous club in the '80s where like all the celebrities used to hang out is a Studio 54 is a dictatorship at the door,

28:39but a democracy on the dance floor. I think that if STEPN were to win, they would need to basically, to your point Sahil, be building that democracy on the dance floor, be building that community, be building that great experience, or else uh or else there's nothing here. Yeah. That's a cool I love I love that quote. Um that's really really cool. I I agree with you. It's like you create that feeling of exclusivity um and like I it's sort of the same model that like

29:11But you know why it's important right? It's It's important because it gives the product team at Stepn the product cycles to be to basically be building in the background. So, they basically have the invite-only cohort as let's get key insights to actually how people want to use this product and then let's go spend two, six, nine, 12 months product cycles be building in the background to actually build um like the core experience. I think the mistake that a lot of people make when they're building consumer products is they build something and they take ads out in the New York subway. Like Stepn,

29:48like that's a bearish signal to me. Hm. Um because I think that like um you know, having 10 million users on Stepn on day one is actually more chaos than they really need. You really just need a small amount of chaos, enough chaos to learn. I love it. I think I mean I think it's like super super interesting way to think about it. You've You framed it up for me in a different way. So, um more to come on this one. We should definitely have Nat and do a follow-up on this. Um I just pulled up his piece

30:22and also you you mentioned Amanda Young. That's an awesome piece as well. I I had read that one actually. Um that was a a great piece on Mirror. So, shout out to both of them. Um we should do a follow-up on this Gabby. We can have you back on and we can do a round table on this stuff and a deeper dive on

30:36it. Let's do it. Let's um let's switch gears uh to a few other uh a few other ideas and things. So, one other one that I wanted to talk about and then I can open it up, um, insurance in the Web3 space. So, this is like admittedly half-baked, but one of the things that I've perceived as a roadblock for, um, you know, the next

31:01billion users of crypto. Uh, everyone talks about that. Like, how do we on-ramp the next billion users? Right now, you have like this tiny percentage of people who are sort of crypto-native or like digitally native that have kind of played or understand the space. And then you have, you know, my parents and like this next billion who who have no idea and also are just like inherently skeptical probably and a little bit scared because the media has, you know, created a narrative around all of this. One of the things that I think jumps out as a reason for that is like constantly brought up to me is, "Oh,

31:34yeah, but these accounts aren't like FDIC-insured." Um, or, you know, you don't have insurance in the way that you do if you put money with Bank of America. People are like, "Well, if I have money with Bank of America, I know, you know, my money's not going to just disappear." Which if you talk to a Bitcoin maxi, you probably get a different answer. You know, they would tell you that your money might disappear

31:53and the government might just take it. Depending on what country you live in, maybe that is true actually. But, um, I've often wondered like whether there were opportunities and maybe people are already, you know, trying to go after this, to just create more, um, like interesting insurance products that these platforms can leverage and acquire in order to provide more certainty or safety to on-ramp, you know, more

32:18skeptical users to the space. Um, any thoughts on that in general? Yeah, I mean, I guess first to point to like why don't we see that or see a ton of it yet? It's like pretty simple in the sense that insurance companies don't like insuring volatile things, right? And so, they're not going to move into the space. but I think the big question of like, how do we actually solve this problem is how do you assess the intrinsic value of a digital asset, which is an entirely new asset class, right? You could argue that you could like abstract it all away and say an asset is worth exactly what someone

32:54is willing to pay for it. Um but clearly we've seen how that might fail, right? Like, is that really the case? Is the market price actually the price at which the asset should be insured? So, I don't really I don't think Yeah, that's a good point. It's not like a diamond where you're like, "Hey, I know that this two-carat, you know, diamond with these properties is going to be worth roughly this, and so I can insure it at that level." I saw a good uh TikTok last night. Warren Buffett's

33:20first TV interview. Have you seen this? No. I haven't. He basically he's like He's like, "I don't look at the prices of stocks. Like, just because someone's willing to pay $70 a share doesn't mean I believe it's worth $70 a share. It could be worth $20 a share or it could be worth $150 a share." Like, that's basically the idea. And if he's saying that for like Coca-Cola, yeah, then, you know,

33:45Dogecoin stablecoin, like, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I Yeah, I mean, the the counterpoint to this, Gabby, in my mind is like insurance companies don't want to move into it. The flip side of that is there's a price for every risk. And so, I imagine if you went to an insurance company and were like, "Hey, I want to insure every account that we have at this entire place." And the reason it's super risky is cuz hacks happen and they have historically happened and, you know, [ __ ] happens, right? And and within crypto, just given it's all pretty new, we're in the like earliest

34:16days of something that is a broader, you know, secular movement, shit's going to happen. And so, the risk is much higher than like Bank of America getting hacked and you losing all your money, probably. And so, the price of that risk is really high, and so the platform would have to pay absurd premiums, probably, and deductibles in order to acquire that insurance. What I wonder is whether someone should make the bet, like a new platform should come along making the bet that boomers or uh older consumers who are skeptical will really value knowing that they are 100% or 110% covered by like, you know, FDIC 2.0

34:56insurance on X platform. So, like Sahil's platform, um you know, it's like Coinbase, but it's Sahil's Coinbase is 100% FDIC 2.0 insured, and I just happen to pay this like massive rate to an insurance company that will fully cover any losses that ever happened. And so, consumers that come to my platform know that they are 100% covered, ironclad guarantee by like Geico or whoever the insurance company is um on my back end, and I would have to figure out a way to make the economics work so that I could cover that. You know, I'd have like a lower margin than Coinbase would cuz I'd be paying those insane premiums. But, do

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39:01like risk off. So, there are a couple companies doing interesting things in insurance or like tangentially related to insurance. Um and they're very like admittedly web 3 native now, but I think it's because they kind of have to be to serve the user base that's actually ready for those products. So, cozy.finance provides insurance against smart contract risk and then the other two are specifically in regards to NFTs and I

39:23think they're both super interesting. Disclaimer, I haven't used either of them, but um the first is called Upshot and it uses machine learning and crowdsourced appraisals to value NFTs. I'm pretty sure the founder Nick Emmons worked in insurance before. I'm not totally sure. Um but yeah, basically uses these models to kind of like value NFTs continuously and they have these massive data sets to do it almost immediately. And then Abacus does something similar, but it's fully decentralized. So, it's like a web 3 native version of Upshot. And I guess generally they're both interesting cuz they help you find value in over or undervalued assets and then figure out

39:59where you want to make your bet. Um That's really cool. These are all I mean I'm just looking abacus.wtf and cozy.finance and then upshot.io I think. or .xyz I think it's either. Oh, they're both. It's the same thing. Oh, only in crypto and web 3 yeah, could you have an insurance company with a top-level domain as wtf.

40:22Yeah. The NFT opportunity is really interesting. Like I think about um like point of sale insurance for NFTs would be really cool. I imagine that OpenSea will work on this or will acquire a company that is going to do it. The challenge of doing it internally at these platforms versus, you know, acquiring or partnering with a you know, embedded finance API type company that will do it for you is like it's a massive new set of core competencies cuz the the insurance side of this is like you have to go find reinsurers, you have to have a panel, you have to have like your commission rates. Like very complicated on the back

40:59end of making that work. But it would be really cool if when you bought, you know, say I wanted to go buy a Bored Ape on OpenSea and it's like, "Okay, I'm going to spend $200,000 on a you know, on this ape. I want to know that I'm insured in the event of it being stolen, in the event of a phishing attack, in the event

41:16of a hack, whatever, something." Like it happened to Seth Green, right? Like he you know, he had that Bored Ape. He was had all these plans to you know, monetize the Bored Ape via TV show, via all these things. It got stolen, he no longer owns the IP to the ape and it's like kind of a hilarious situation, but he can't make the show anymore. And so like he lost a lot of money probably on the back of that. So point of sale like embedded insurance products for crypto purchases is kind of a cool idea. I imagine there are people working on this. It sounds like a pretty

41:46interesting space. I love that. I love the idea. I also just want to I want to comment on the Seth Green thing. Like if I was Seth Green, I would try to get my ape stolen. Because What do you mean? This is my here's my hot take of the day. And and maybe think it's better for him to have it

42:06stolen and be able to go talk about it? The Mona Lisa became popular when it was stolen and then it was brought back. It's is the Banksy theory of uh of art, right? Like it's more it's worth more when you go like shred it in the gallery cuz it makes a story. Yeah, exactly. So,

42:22let's see what happens with this ape. I also think like generally it's pretty silly. I mean, I'm not a legal expert by any means, but how I feel or like what I've kind of read on the topic is digital assets give you system powers, but they don't give you legal rights, right? Like a thief is not a purchaser or an owner per these legal terms. And so, it would be I think it would be hard to argue that the thief actually has the rights to the stolen asset. Um and then I saw also saw an interesting thread on Twitter about this. Um I'm trying to remember the name

42:52of Maybe I can share it after, but basically if you actually read the Bored Ape terms, it says like I wrote down the quote, "When you purchase an NFT, you own the underlying Bored Ape, the art completely." And the terms essentially suggest that IP rights are licensed and not assigned. So, um kind of how uh like the legal experts interpreted this is you could argue that nowhere in the Bored Ape terms does the license

43:14actually have a termination provision. And so, maybe you could argue like once a licensee, always a licensee. You can't have it taken away from you. Um but it's kind of cool cuz it's like cases like these that will set the standard. It's like totally open design space. Yeah, it's I mean, that's what I find

43:31fascinating about the space, by the way. Like I'm the furthest thing from a you know, uh like fully red-pilled person in general. Um but I find it so fascinating intellectually to just see this like laboratory of ideas that's getting constantly like bashed by things from the outside, broken, you know, remade, figured out. Like I mean, the Do Kwon um situation We were By the way, like funny story that I just feel like we need to

43:57talk about. I had DM'd with Do Kwon. Like he'd followed me on Twitter. We were DM'ing. I had like scheduled a time to have him on the show. Um it was going to be on like a Thursday. We were going to have him on the show for an interview. It was going to be like, you know, huge. He was a pretty big He would

44:10have been a huge guest within crypto. And literally that Monday was the Monday when Terra went to zero. And the whole thing happened. maybe another time. Well, no, I didn't So, I didn't hear anything. Uh we didn't hear anything like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And I was like, Greg, there's no way he's coming on the show, right? Like, this dude just lost $60 billion of people's value. Like, there's no way he's coming on tomorrow. And we got an email from his assistant on like Wednesday night being like, Do Kwon will not be able to do this recording unfortunately at this time. We look forward to like discussing

44:40in the future. And I just replied and just said, Yeah, I figured. Oh my god. But like, uh it was the timing of it. I mean, can you imagine? I wish we had been able to record it cuz getting to release the episode ex post would have been so unbelievable. Cuz he I mean, that guy was like he was you know, he wasn't afraid. He didn't shy away from uh you know, from from words. Um yeah, I do think I mean, like it's just been interesting to see the the kind of the intellectual gauntlet around all of this stuff. And like, the number of smart people that are around it, the

45:13number of smart people that are detractors of it, too. And that are like kind of forcing people to um you know, to push and level up around all of it. I I just find really interesting. I think being in crypto and also being in venture, it requires you to have like a real opinion on things. You can't like You can't be successful in venture if you're just agreeable, right? Like, it's the contrarian bets that that have outside returns. And so, I think it's helpful to be in a space where there's so much controversy all the time because it requires me like on a daily basis to

45:42figure out like, what do I stand for? Why am I in this ecosystem? Like, what do I actually believe in? And what are the companies that I want to push forward? Um and it requires you to have an opinion on like where you see the future going. And I think it's a good thing. Yeah, and one of the other cool features of this that I think people don't acknowledge enough is like it is uniquely um enabling young people and also you know minorities, women, etc. to rise through the ranks and like be at the pinnacle of an industry at a very young age. Um and I find that like that

46:22is such a great thing for just breaking barriers that have always existed in these like, you know, very white-collar like Greenwich Country Club industries like VC, frankly. Like the fact that um you know, you know more about this stuff than anyone that's like a 40-year-old VC just like point-blank cuz you've been in it you like you've been in the trenches, you've been working on all this stuff and you can at a young age um you know, truly go shake up an industry that has been uh pretty stagnant for a really long time. And that's cool cuz you're part of this like new class of people that are that are

46:52all going and doing that. Yeah, I mean two things there. I mean first of all like I have to give it all to my team. I think TCG is just one of the sickest teams ever. Definitely the coolest team I've ever amazing. They're Yeah, Jared is amazing. John is amazing. My whole team's amazing and like I don't think we would be able to do this especially as young people. Like we're relatively young team if we didn't have that kind of support. But then also if there's young people listening to the podcast like selfishly when I was moving into this space I was kind of thinking about like okay, I'm young. My years in

47:22my 20s compound so much so I need to figure out like what do I want to do now so that I can be an expert, you know, once I've put in my 10,000 hours and I'm certainly like by no means an expert in crypto. I came into the space full-time so I could catch up and hopefully get there. But um kind of the way I thought about it is like I was in early-stage consumer investing before I just, you know, traditional web two consumer and there are decades of history that I missed, right? Like I either wasn't alive or I was in elementary school or something like that. Like it would be

47:52incredibly hard for me to compete with people who backed these massive companies and have that type of experience and crypto is so new. Like the reason that I decided to actually enter the space, I remember the day I had lunch with Brian Flynn who's the founder of Rabbit Hole, which is very full circle cuz we ended up co-leading their series A with Greylock, but I literally told Brian I was like, "I'm going to buy you lunch every single day until I figure out like all these answers to my stupid questions." So I brought a notebook and we had lunch and we put together a timeline of like big events that had

48:23happened in crypto starting from the creation of Bitcoin to the ETH ICO to the ICO boom to DeFi summer where everyone made a ton of money and then spent all that money during NFT summer and then everyone has a profile picture as their an NFT as their profile picture and like all of these interesting things along the way too. But then you kind of zoom out and you realize that the interesting things on the timeline and like the real foundational aspects that allow you to build interesting things for consumers happened on the second half of the graph. So I saw that timeline and I was like, "Okay, we're

48:53actually way earlier than I thought and there's a massive sort of like arbitrage opportunity for young people to enter the space and actually become experts." And so it's sort of selfish, but like that was another decision that I made. You hit on an amazing piece of an advice in there that I think like is worth is worth reiterating for all young people that are listening. I mean honestly, not just young people. Anyone listening who is looking to kind of do something new or make a change and that's like this whole idea of playing games you are uniquely well suited to

49:21win. Like don't go play a game that you're just, you know, predisposed to lose for whatever reason. You talked about it in the context of like within consumer investing there's 30 years of history that you don't have the benefit of and you're never going to be able to come up the curve to like compete against someone that has done that. I talked to um there's this investor in the in mostly public equities, Gavin Baker, who's an amazing investor and he's talked about it on a few podcasts of this idea that like he's one of the only people now that was around for like the dot com

49:54boom bust and 0809 and all the way through to the current tech trends. And so he's just like it's very hard to compete with me because I've read the 10 Ks and 10 Qs of every single technology company over a period of like 30 years or you know, 20 years and you can't catch up to that. Like you're not going to build up that embedded you know, experience set that I've been able to accumulate over this long period of time. So when you think about crypto and you brought it up and you know, in your in what you were saying there it's like that was a game you were

50:26uniquely well suited to you know, make an attempt to win at least because you can come up the curve and you can do those things and hustle in a way that gets you at least on the same playing field as anyone else that is possibly in it. And then you know, lucky breaks, things happen, you know, your

50:41hustle, your energy gets created etc. But at least you're on a playing field that you can win. So I want to I want to comment on that and I first of all I totally agree with you and I I just want to say a few things actually. So the first is like initially in this on this pod we started talking about how important Twitter is in terms of getting insight and stuff like that, you know,

51:09Twitter is where your best friends are. It's also it's so it's helpful in getting sort of inspiration but it's also very noisy and sometimes for all the builders listening like sometimes you just kind of have to tune it all out and just create something that's interesting. You and to Sahil's point like you you're the uniquely you know, suitable for this particular thing and just create something that you think is going to be interesting to

51:35others. And on another pod I'll talk about this but I've been obsessed with Norm Macdonald recently who's a comedian and uh and some friends have been just like sharing interviews. And one of my friends said something interesting this morning where he he we're talking about this interview and he says, "Norm figured out the secret to most

51:59things. Thinking about what's interesting and then just making it funny. Certain people can have some amount of of success thinking about business opportunities or careers or hobbies that seem {quote} good and then making them work. But the people who really succeed figure out what's interesting to them and then make it interesting to other

52:18people." Mhm. And I think that's the key to building. You you build something that you find interesting to you and some amount of people and you just evangelize it as much as possible. I totally agree. I mean, I'm not a builder but I use that in my writing. Um I have The Psychology of Money from Morgan Housel on my bookshelf. It's like seriously such a good book but I was listening I think it was the Tim Ferriss podcast and I was listening to his podcast and like Tim was asking about how he writes and how he thinks about what to write about and all these things

52:49and his advice was very similar and he basically said, "Write about what is interesting to you. Like the audience should be one person and it's you and you're not that special. There's a non-zero chance that other people out there in the world will also find those things interesting. And then what also happens is like you never really burn out because you're only writing about the things that are interesting to you and talking about topics that are new and innovative to you and then you also find your community that way and it's

53:17like very authentic." I've heard Morgan say it. So we had Morgan on the show of I don't know, maybe like a month after on the month after the Tim show and and it was great. He's amazing. Um and we talked about something kind of directionally similar but one of the challenges that we talked about that that arises as well is like social platforms are engineered um um, to like force you to share the things that everyone wants to hear, not the things that you want to write about sometimes. And so you get this like vicious spiral, you know, and you see it on you I like I see it on YouTube most

53:52clearly, where like you know, personal finance YouTubers, it's basically like, "How I bought 10 Ferraris in you know, for $100 last weekend or whatever." You know, it's just like garbage nonsense over and over again. And it's not that the person has like bad intentions or that they want to share these things. It's that that's the video that gets the most clicks and makes them the most money. And so then they're like on this spiral of like, "Crap, I need to make a video that does just as well or gets me more." And so you end up going back to

54:19the same stuff over and over again. Twitter's the same way. And so people that I I think it's more rare than not that people are able to actually step away from like what works, what gets clicks, what gets shares, and just think about what they want to write about and talk about. And it's why someone like Morgan is a bit of a unicorn in my mind, because he has done that for such a long period of time, so consistently and so well. I find that with your writing, by the way, Gabby. I think like your writing is amazing and you do a great job with it. Um, but it is something to

54:47watch out for for anybody as they continue to like especially as you grow your presence and as your like following continues to grow and be built, continue to write about things that you really care about and want to write about and share, not just the things that you think people want to hear. So I want to spend um, we've got like five five 10 minutes left. Gabby, while we have you, you know, you're in the wee you know, as an investor and as you know, a participant in these communities, like you're just in the weeds on a ton of cool stuff that's

55:17happening um, in these spaces. Can you just share like what what are the areas or things, trends, whatever? Like what's getting you most excited today? Um, and what are some of your predictions for the future of where all this stuff is going? Yeah, I have one kind of like oddly specific one that I really want to write about or like I've just can't stop thinking about. And I really want to see a powerful consumer block explorer. I think there's massive potential for a block explorer. Like Etherscan, for

55:46example, is is a popular block explorer. To tell stories that aren't really leveraged by the existing ones today. So, I guess the way that I'll preface it is like I'm a VC, so like I think about this all the time, but like let's think about switching costs, right? Like motes and switching costs are always top of mind for me. In B2B SaaS, switching costs are pretty high. Like if you're on a product, it's like relatively difficult for you to move to another one. Then think about Web 2 consumer. Switching costs are like drastically lower, almost zero, right? Like you don't have to use Facebook, but you know, if you stopped

56:18using it, it's like kind of annoying cuz you've signed in with Facebook all over the web, right? And all this kind of stuff. Um, but the switching costs of like moving from one consumer application to the other are drastically lower. In Web 3, switching costs are effectively zero, right? Because you own your own data and you can port it over from one place to the next, right? Like all An example is

56:36SMTP, uh, the protocol for email. Mhm. So, for an email front end, like I use Gmail, but if I wanted to use Superhuman tomorrow, or Hotmail, or ProtonMail, or like self-hosted email, I could do all of that, and like the emails are mine. Those are just front ends, right? And I could take my data with me really easily. So, what's good about that is like these really low switching costs in Web 3, and all of these open protocols, end up resulting in a lot of pressure on companies to build products that just

57:05like point-blank serve consumers better. I think like from a venture perspective, too, like I think the best consumer products will come out of permissionless protocols for that reason. So, anyway, that's the preface. Back to block explorers. When we think about what a mote in a block explorer might look like, basically, like there's data on a public blockchain, and if you go to Etherscan or any other block explorer, if you want to index, or even if you want to, you know, index it yourself, you can go and

57:28see what has been done on chain, right? Like the information is public, it's immutable, it's like the same on all of them. But from a consumer standpoint, the data that you choose to leverage and like make more known on these consumer front ends is really interesting. So, these are the some things that technically you could find yourself on Etherscan, but most consumers don't. I think it'd be interesting to like really contextually and semantically tell the story of like your first day on chain, right? Like my on chain birthday, like what was the thing that you did first? When did you get your first wallet? When did you

57:59become crypto native? It's like Facebook memories for crypto. Yeah, or like what wallets do you interact with the most, right? Like I'm always sending like 0.02 ETH to my friends cuz they're like, "Oh, like I don't have gas. Can you send me something?" Like that would be cool to know. Or like what do those relationships look like? Or like even these contextual things, like let's say you sold your most expensive NFT, I want to know what you just did with that liquidity. Like there's got to be a

58:22reason. Can I dumb it down for our Please, yeah. you know, for for everyone actually. For me. For me, Greg. Can I dumb it down for Zai? Yeah. Etherscan is the Craigslist of block explorers. So, if you go to Etherscan, it's like super I mean, I think it was launched in 2015 um when crypto was a lot smaller and

58:51see that comparison. It's like super ugly. page. It's su- It's super ugly. There's like text everywhere. You know, the reason you use it is for like really important transactions cuz you're you you know, I'll send Gabby, you know, some ETH and I want to make sure it gets there. But then all of a sudden I see like 100 data points and it's like it's not like when you when you um you know, you go and you buy like a sandwich from a store and it cost like $12. It's not like you know, and you get the receipt. It's not like you see like a million data points, you know what I

59:22mean? You see like, "Oh, I It was $12 and it was approved." Like that's all I need to see. So I think there's like two layers to this. It's The first layer is what do I need to see like from a trust standpoint? And then number two, what would be really cool to see? I.E. like what Gabby's suggesting, like

59:42nostalgia and stuff like that. And then number three, it's just how do you package this all up in a non-Craigslist-y cool way? Yeah, I think like the general term for all of these companies working in this space is human-readable web3. Like making it make sense. There's actually a consumer block explorer that I'm super excited about. Um uh like I have a friend building it, but I don't think I can say the name yet, but like another one that's sort of

1:00:09playing in a similar space is Polyweave. Um which just launched recently and it's basically like a Etherscan API and I'm pretty sure what it does is it just like makes your transactions more readable. So you can actually see like oh, you minted an NFT on this date for this amount of money. Or you sent something to this ENS address and it just makes it

1:00:27easier to understand. You know, the funny thing about these names of all these companies. So I looked up Polyweave cuz I wanted to find it and I literally like the first thing I clicked well, it took me to like a protective fire retardant uh woven laminated sheeting website where I can like buy this for like building products. So I need to I need to find like there needs to be a web3 search

1:00:48engine where I only get web3 results. That's right. It could be hard. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Um this is cool. I like the I mean the idea of like contextualizing and like giving me kind of curated um interesting insights from the blockchain on a given day too is just cool. Like there have been Twitter accounts that have built massive followings off doing this, right? Like even like whale

1:01:11activity or like NFT whale activity. That's kind of doing this, right? Like they're just scanning the blockchain, finding interesting insights that they can pull from it and delivering it in like a nice package that people want to consume and that like you can take those insights and use them for something. Like in in the NFT space, if you see a bunch of whales moving into some like lesser known project, you might want to go and buy into that or have a bag there. So, that is that's a pretty cool

1:01:35idea. Um I like that quite a bit. Um So, predictions for the future. Give us one. Like 5 years from now, um where do you think we're going to be? Like do you think uh I don't know. Like what's the price of ETH 5 years from now? Oh, don't ask me that one. I don't know if I can do prices right. I have a

1:01:55general I have a general prediction. Well, we can all give a prediction. Well, I can say I can say I'm excited to buy and hold on to ETH for 5 years. Okay. Um Okay. So, I think the for 20 years? I think I'll be holding on to it. Okay. 20 years is a long time.

1:02:10It is a long time. You're 22 years old. I I I know, exactly. It's crazy to think about. But like, you know, when I the reason I asked the question is just cuz I and I've talked to Greg about this. Like my investing strategy is buy and hold things forever. Like basically anything that I buy today, I never want to sell. And I want to borrow against it. I want to like be able to, you know, until like Bitcoin, Ethereum or I own some Solana, but like basically Bitcoin, Ethereum mostly the only things I own and like I expect to just hold these things forever. I hope they become

1:02:39a huge part of the ecosystem and there's a big thing around of it and I want to borrow against it in the future in the same way that I can borrow against my, you know, S&P 500 stocks in my brokerage account. Um And so, like when I think about these things, I'm thinking generally like 10-plus year time horizons. Um It also makes me so much more purpose-driven. Like when you see volatile price changes, it's like if you're on a decades-plus long time horizon, it just

1:03:05doesn't matter. Yeah. And it's like the local or tourist thing. I've heard Shawn uh Porry talk about this before. Like are you a local or are you a tourist? Um and when it comes to getting things like, you know, seasons change, locals know that, tourists, you know, run for the hills when it gets cold or rainy. And so, um you know, just like long-term horizons tend to make you operate more like a local with these things. You you

1:03:27know, you tend to be uh more resilient. And frankly, you view things as on sale when prices drop rather than being like, "Oh my god, I just lost money." Um so, it's just an interesting framing. Okay, well, give us one before we jump off then. What's like it give us one prediction for the future if you've got

1:03:41one. Yeah, it's online credentialism. Like I think my hot take is like when I have kids a couple decades out, I'm not sure if they're going to go to college. Um back to Web3, like if there's an area of Web3 that's quite flawed, it's your online identity and the way that you kind of credential identities online. It's today it's very much about what you have, like what's in your wallet, how much capital is there, how expensive is your PFP, and it's it's very little about what you do, even though people are doing really, really interesting things on chain. And so, the problem is now it's putting this emphasis on

1:04:11exclusivity and capital, and it's not how the ecosystem is going to scale, and it's not how you're going to bring in high-quality contributors. So, I think if we can move towards credentialing based on on-chain actions, we're going to see like a more equitable ecosystem, and it's going to have huge implications also for how people make money or learn online, which goes back to the college thing. Um so, a bunch of companies doing tangentially related stuff in that space, like Rabbit Hole, Station, Layer3, et cetera. Um and I think it's just going to have massive implications for, you know, how we value things

1:04:40online. And it relates to the what we were talking about with um Sahil, what you were talking about with uh work to earn. Like I think the bigger sort of parent to work to earn is X to earn. And then if it's basically like what actions are you going to do on the web to earn some sort of digital asset that

1:05:01could be used for an online identity. So, for example, Rabbit Hole, which TCG is an investor, I'm also an angel in the or actually no, uh Lat Checkout is an investor in in Rabbit Hole as well. We you know that what they do is like if you want to learn about Uniswap, like there's like education around that and you earn the UNI token for learning about Uniswap and all of a sudden like

1:05:25you're earning credentials and tokens. Um so then it makes sense that like if I want to hire someone who understands Uniswap, I would go and work with Rabbit Hole for that. Super cool. That's a great place to uh to wrap up. That's leaves me with a lot to think about and go read about now too with some of these companies that you just mentioned Gabby. So um thank you so so much for taking the time to uh to come on and uh and jam with us. We'll have to do this in person again. Are you

1:05:53are you at New York at all this summer? I just moved to LA. I'll be in New York for NFT NYC and probably in and out because I moved at a terrible time. So yeah, well that's in a few weeks. Let's get together when you're when you're out in New York. Would love to would love to get the gang together and I know I uh I'm overdue to catch up with Jared Dicker as well. So we'll need to need to

1:06:11get the TCG gang together. Definitely. Awesome. Thank you so much. You're the best. Talk soon. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode. If you have any questions that you want featured in a future episode, email us at hi@trwi.h.com. Leave us a review at Apple or Spotify to help us grow the reach of this podcast.

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