Off The Chain

Matt Hougan is chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management. In this conversation, we talk about bitcoin, ethereum, digital assets, what the institutional world is currently saying about crypto, why the assets have started 2023 so well, macro environment, banking crisis, inflation, interest rates, and much more. Matt always has great views on what is going on in the industry, where regulation is moving, and shares what Bitwise is currently up to. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Michael Shaulov is the CEO of Fireblocks. In this conversation, we talk about counterparty risk, current banking crisis, self-custody wallets, and what Fireblocks has built to help people in the bitcoin and crypto world keep their assets safe. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Delian Asparouhov is a principal at Founders Fund and the co-founder of Varda Space Industries. In this conversation, we talk about building space factories, what is going on in the venture investing community, why Delian believes more people should be starting tech companies, AI, and bitcoin. This conversation was held at Lyceum Miami. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Sam Parr is one of my most interesting friends. He previously built The Hustle, which has over 3.5 million readers, he also is the host of My First Million podcast. Sam recently co-founded and launched Hampton, which is a private community for super successful CEO's and founders. We also talk about his personal operating system, how he builds various companies, why tinkering is such an important skill on the internet, artificial intelligence, and who some of our heroes are. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Chris Williamson is the host of the Modern Wisdom Podcast. This conversation was held at Lyceum Miami. Chris talks through 10 principles to help you survive and thrive in the chaos of life. A few principles include choosing our regrets, confidence starts with action, a rich vocabulary results in a rich life, and more. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Caitlin Long is the co-founder & CEO of Custodia Bank. In this conversation, we talk about the current banking crisis, short-term & long-term solutions, what should happen to the US dollar, inflation, FedNow & CBDC, traditional finance, bitcoin, and Caitlin's effort to create a safe bank. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and an investor. He was the former chief technology officer at Coinbase, a former general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and he also has a number of nine figure exits as a founder of companies. In this conversation, Balaji and I discuss the current banking crisis, the potential of hyperinflation, what happens to the U.S. dollar moving forward, why he made a $1 million bitcoin bet over the next 90 days, and what exactly Balaji thinks has led up to this scenario. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Raoul Pal is the co-founder & CEO of Real Vision, he is also the brilliant mind behind Global Macro Investor. In this conversation, we talk about the recent bank failures, macro environment, how the Fed can respond, why quantitative easing is coming back, and what will happen to bitcoin in that scenario. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Banks are failing. Interest rates are rising. Bitcoin is pumping. What is going on in the economy? Anthony Pompliano gives an in depth explanation of what we are seeing in the economy so far in 2023.    ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Mike Solana is the editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, an independent media company that continues to question the public narrative and talk about all of the topics that people care about. He is also an entrepreneur in residence at Founders Fund, and is one of the best independent and critical thinkers. This conversation was held at Lyceum Miami, it covers all the insanity of the last couple of years, and tries to seek out truth and fact. Topics include COVID, politicians vs citizens, evaluating situations, crime, AI, and what he believes is going right.  ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/ ======================= TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:38 - Insane world - what happened? 4:53 - Pirate Wires 8:13 - Information changing 12:00 - COVID 16:14 - Ev

These individuals are some of the top earning folks from the adult film industry, we have Brandi Love, Lisa Ann, Eva Lovia & Damon Dice. This conversation was held at Lyceum Miami. These four individuals are pioneers in technology adoption, business, and investment portfolios. This is a fascinating conversation that includes the adult film business, starting other businesses, balancing identities, writing books, social media, OnlyFans, and how big of a team they each have when it comes to reviewing financials.   ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/ ======================= TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - Adult film business 6:38 - Cameo & sports 8:30 - Starting a business 11:20 - Transferring to social media 13:25 - Balancing identities

Codie Sanchez is the founder of Contrarian Thinking, and has a goal of creating one million financially free individuals.  This conversation was held at Lyceum Miami. Topics include preparing for a recession, the benefits of investing in private markets & "boring" businesses, the importance of winning the war for attention, how to negotiate business deals effectively, her financial Fridays, her daily schedule & how she conducts meetings, strategies for finding talent & scaling through automation, questions about her MBA, running a business while working a full-time job, and emphasizes the importance of building an online presence.  ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/ ======================= TIMESTAMPS:  0:00 - Intro 0:15 - Prepari

Cathie Wood is the founder, CEO, and CIO of Ark Investment Management. This conversation was recorded at Lyceum Miami. Topics include investing in innovative companies & technologies, volatility in the market, dealing with critics, investment horizon in oil & energy, bitcoin & the crypto market, regulation, and importance of thinking indecently.  ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Vivek Ramaswamy is the co-founder of Strive Asset Management, and he is a 2024 Presidential Candidate. This conversation was recorded at Lyceum Miami. Topics include exploring the meaning of “wokeness” and being adopted by corporations, the last ten years of politics, national identity & what it means to be an American, and why Vivek decided to run for President. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Kris Krohn is a real estate investor, a business coach, and owns more than 400 different companies. I have never met someone who has created so many systems, processes, and continues to acquire so much real estate. Topics include learning from successful people, how to hire CEOs, managing businesses, social media, and what his most important metric in life is.  ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

John Shahidi is the president of Happy Dad, Shots Podcast Network, & NELK Boys. In this conversation, we talk about the rise of the NELK Boys, how they make money, what the business is behind all the content. This includes the Full Send Podcast, SteveWillDoIt being banned from YouTube, how they interviewed Elon Musk, sales figures & product plan for Happy Dad. Happy Dad is one of the fastest growing seltzers in the world. John is one of the greatest minds when it comes to scaling products when a creator is providing all the distribution.  ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 200,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

Laura Spaulding is the founder of Spaulding Decon Industries, which is a full service restoration company for crime scene cleaning. In this conversation, we talk about the economics of cleaning a crime scene, prostitution, drug busts, and many more topics. This is one of the most wild episodes yet. We also break down all the finances and businesses Laura has been involved with.   ======================= Announcing LYCEUM | Miami, a day-long event on March 4th in Miami Beach hosted by Pomp. We’re gathering an explosive group of experts to engage in a series of bold discussions, covering topics from investing, emerging tech, longevity, space exploration, entertainment and more.The speaker lineup includes names such as investing legend Cathie Wood, NYT bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy, billionaire Christian Angermayer, master of Contrarian Thinking Codie Sanchez, Modern Wisdom host Chris Williamson plus many more. Listeners will receive an exclusive 40% discount on VIP and Insider Pass tickets with code P

Dylan LeClair is the head of research at Bitcoin Magazine, & the co-founder of 21st Paradigm. In this conversation, we talk about bitcoin, macro economy, Nostr, ordinals, Lightning Network, bitcoin mining, regulation, & more.  ======================= Announcing LYCEUM | Miami, a day-long event on March 4th in Miami Beach hosted by Pomp. We’re gathering an explosive group of experts to engage in a series of bold discussions, covering topics from investing, emerging tech, longevity, space exploration, entertainment and more.The speaker lineup includes names such as investing legend Cathie Wood, NYT bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy, billionaire Christian Angermayer, master of Contrarian Thinking Codie Sanchez, Modern Wisdom host Chris Williamson plus many more. Listeners will receive an exclusive 40% discount on VIP and Insider Pass tickets with code POMP40.  General Admission tickets are free of charge. Spots are limited so head to lyceummiami.com to buy your ticket today. ==================

Richard Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company. In this conversation, we talk about his entrepreneurial career, building mobile apps before YouTube was in the app store, how he built a media company with Verizon, all the secrets of Black Rifle Coffee, and tips to grow an audience online.  ======================= Announcing LYCEUM | Miami, a day-long event on March 4th in Miami Beach hosted by Pomp. We’re gathering an explosive group of experts to engage in a series of bold discussions, covering topics from investing, emerging tech, longevity, space exploration, entertainment and more.The speaker lineup includes names such as investing legend Cathie Wood, NYT bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy, billionaire Christian Angermayer, master of Contrarian Thinking Codie Sanchez, Modern Wisdom host Chris Williamson plus many more. Listeners will receive an exclusive 40% discount on VIP and Insider Pass tickets with code POMP40.  General Admission tickets are free of charge

Robert Bryce is one of the foremost experts and reporters on the energy business around the world. He is also the author of a book, “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations.” In this conversation, we talk about energy markets, about renewables, can the United States become energy independent? What is going on with Russia & Ukraine? Why does China have a monopoly on different metals and magnets that are necessary to actually build renewable technology? And what does Robert think about bitcoin and the energy markets? ======================= Announcing LYCEUM | Miami, a day-long event on March 4th in Miami Beach hosted by Pomp. We’re gathering an explosive group of experts to engage in a series of bold discussions, covering topics from investing, emerging tech, longevity, space exploration, entertainment and more.The speaker lineup includes names such as investing legend Cathie Wood, NYT bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy, billionaire Christian Angermayer, master of Contrarian Thinking Cod