Moment of Zen is a weekly podcast where Dan Romero (Farcaster), Antonio Garcia Martinez (Spindl), and Erik Torenberg (Village Global/On Deck) discuss the latest in tech, business, and culture. (0:00) All-in Tribute (1:15) What happens to SBF? FTX = Enron + Theranos (5:00) History of collapses in crypto (8:10) DeFi/Web3 actually works (11:35) Redemption arc for SBF/Caroline? Comparing with other frauds (15:37) In an alternate universe, what could FTX have become? Steelmanning FTX the business (22:30) What’s going to happen to Twitter? (24:20) How would we advise Elon? (25:20) Is controversy good for Twitter? (26:10) The killer app for Twitter is to dunk on your enemies (26:40) Bull case for Twitter (34:00) Tech civil war? The fight for free speech (40:15) Future of AI - open vs closed? (45:10) Intersection of AI and crypto (53:00) Role for gov’t regulation (58:50) 2023 Predictions Dan Romero: www.twitter.com/dwr Antonio Garcia Martinez: www.twitter.com/antoniogm Erik Torenberg: www.twitter.com/eriktorenberg Marc Andreessen: www.twitter.com/pmarca Thanks to Rob Perla and Molly Mielke for production
(0:00) All-in Tribute
(1:15) What happens to SBF? FTX = Enron + Theranos
(5:00) History of collapses in crypto
(8:10) DeFi/Web3 actually works
(11:35) Redemption arc for SBF/Caroline? Comparing with other frauds
(15:37) In an alternate universe, what could FTX have become? Steelmanning FTX the business
(22:30) What’s going to happen to Twitter?
(24:20) How would we advise Elon?
(25:20) Is controversy good for Twitter?
(26:10) The killer app for Twitter is to dunk on your enemies
(26:40) Bull case for Twitter
(34:00) Tech civil war? The fight for free speech
(40:15) Future of AI - open vs closed?
(45:10) Intersection of AI and crypto
(53:00) Role for gov’t regulation
(58:50) 2023 Predictions
Dan Romero: www.twitter.com/dwr
Antonio Garcia Martinez: www.twitter.com/antoniogm
Erik Torenberg: www.twitter.com/eriktorenberg
Marc Andreessen: www.twitter.com/pmarca
Thanks to Rob Perla and Molly Mielke for production