Ross Mason of Dig Ventures on Going Down the Crypto/NFT Rabbit Hole

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My friend Ross is back for round two of Panic. He’s an open source legend who started Mulesoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6 billon) – which was well covered in our previous interview (linked below) – but today we’re going down the crypto/NFT rabbit hole. And if there’s anybody outside of Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, and the people at Multicoin I like to learn from on the topic, it’s Ross.

Nowadays Ross splits his time between Switzerland and Amsterdam. I’ll be catching up with Ross in Amsterdam this week too. Be sure to follow along on Twitter.

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Guest: Ross Mason

Profile: Founder of DIG Ventures, MuleSoft

Where to Find Him: LinkedIn, Twitter

What’s Ross Panicked About?: His unhealthy fascination with FIFA 22.

Previous Panics:

Mulesoft Founder Ross Mason Joins Me On Panic With Friends And Explains The Software Revolution In Some Great New Ways (September, 2020)

Show Notes:

• Introduction. (00:39)

• Welcome Ross. (05:51)

• Best cities in the world. (06:04)

• Leaving Mulesoft for good. (08:34)

• Leveraging the social networks (09:06)

• Digging into web3 whitepapers. (10:07)

• The Holy Grail of Open Source. (12:24)

• Down the crypto rabbit hole. (13:24)

• Crypto’s gaming angle. (15:10)

• NFTs as assets. (16:33)

• You’re going to get scammed. (19:17)

• Manufactured urgency, but it’s fun. (22:49)

• Living with the drawdowns. (23:41)

• The thesis for minting your own coin. (26:03)

• Creating a ‘carry’ token. (27:40)

• Can centralization fix the scams? (30:49)

• Build your community the correct way. (31:48)

• Helping founders (33:52)

• Public tech meltdown (38:47)

• Long bitcoin and ethereum. (39:52)

• The need for middleware connections. (40:34)

• Amsterdam’s web3 culture. (42:19)

• The thing about FIFA. (46:07)

• Wrapping it up. (47:39)

• Closing thoughts. (49:12)

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Host: Howard Lindzon | Producer: Knut Jensen | Researcher: Pete Weishaupt

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