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 A longtime investor and founder in the crypto space, Joey Krug understands the upsides (and downsides) of being early and making big bets. Now at the Founders Fund, he’s focused on defining the next decade of the firm’s crypto strategy. In the first episode of season 2, Joey sits down with Denelle to talk about what motivated his early ventures, finding and backing the best founders, and his list of biggest mistakes and lessons learned (literally - he keeps a list). Plus: what horses and poker have to do with financial markets and crypto investing.

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Janet Foutty, Executive Chair of the Board for Deloitte US, knows what it takes to lead large organizations through meaningful change. As chair and CEO of Deloitte Consulting, she led the digital transformation and growth of the $10B business through investments in digital, AI, and cloud. Janet and Denelle sit down to discuss the breadth of the web3 opportunity that is in front of businesses today, the clients she sees coming to Deloitte looking to engage, creating the backbone companies need to adapt to digital transformation, and advancing women's leadership in this space.

Sigal Mandelker, lawyer and longtime public servant, served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and held many other senior positions throughout her distinguished government career. Now at Ribbit Capital, a VC focused on financial services and technology, she’s leveraging that experience to help change the world of finance. She sits down with Denelle to share what motivated her early on in her career, her approach to engaging with industry for better outcomes, and how that public sector experience impacts her work with founders now.

Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital, knows that investing in Web3—from finding builders, to giving them money, to supporting them—requires a new, different approach. Avichal sits down with Denelle to discuss reorienting human organizations to take advantage of this new infrastructure, being thoughtful about partnership and giving Web3 founders advice, and even shares a bit of history about the origins of corporations which brings us to the present day and DAOs.

Chad Cascarilla, CEO and Co-founder of Paxos, has been building crypto infrastructure since the early days, so he has a unique vantage point when it comes to things like scaling a crypto business and regulation. Chad and Denelle discuss bringing brand name players into crypto, what it should mean to be called a stablecoin, and prioritizing regulation to ensure a sustainable business, enable mainstream adoption, and make a better financial life possible for people. (To be clear on this episode’s title: we’re all big fans of the post office here. Our point is that a truly modern financial system needs to operate in a new way—blockchain tech is making it possible.)