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 crypto. He explains how irresponsible monetary policy and runaway national debt brought about crypto's inevitable creation, how Figment services the layer-1 ecosystem and Wyoming's role as a home for crypto's future.
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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
3:15 - Lorien Gabel's childhood and background
6:20 - Path to entrepreneurship and early Internet
12:50 - Monetary policy and path to crypto
18:50 - Ethereum and proof of stake
20:12 - Figment
22:58 - Bitcoin
24:55 - Figment's offering and a blockchain future
30:00 - Layer-1 ecosystem
31:18 - Wyoming and digital assets ecosystem
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