Category: Apprentice VC
Crypto podcast – good one
Why we will not ICO – Ouriel Ohayon – Medium
Nearly two years ago i started to deep dive into the crypto world. It quickly felt like a natural playground for my next company: i became fascinated and obsessed with the blockchain technologies and…
— Read on medium.com/@ourielohayon/why-we-will-not-ico-59153334cca4
Esquire Shophouse 2018 video
This was an awesome event. Super cool venue, format and people.
Hope to see more stuff happen in Singapore like this.
Esquire – thanks for having me!
How to Pitch
My deck I used at the Esquire Shophouse 2018
💼 – Get a Job (SEA region)
Good to see this is back.
One of the best resources in SEA region for tech/VC job hunting.
This week we have selected 19 positions from Venture Capital (Openspace Ventures) to Startups (Transcelestial, CardUp, Homage, 90 Seconds, ViSenze, Tradegecko) to Centaurs (Mixpanel, Appier, Carousell) to Unicorns (Stripe, Grab) to MNCs (Zendesk, Rakuten, Google, Facebook).
One investing firm is behind a string of this year’s big money-making moments in Silicon Valley – Recode
Great read.
This one gets me – I know this feeling:
Undoubtedly. It’s an amazing company — we should’ve owned more. But for us, it was an incredibly important investment.
Index Ventures is quietly encroaching into the top tier of American investors. Here are five questions with them.
— Read on www.recode.net/2018/8/5/17624034/index-ventures-mike-volpi-q-and-a-silicon-valley
Jenny of GGV Capital
Great listen – she has to be the most famous VC to come out of Singapore!
Very inspiring.
Esquire !
First time I was asked to speak for an event organised by a men’s magazine.
Was an honor and a lot of fun.
Thx for having me Esquire!



Drinking From The Crypto Firehose – AVC
Some good points in here.
Especially:
But we still don’t have consensus mechanisms that can scale to transaction speeds that are typical of mainstream web apps, we don’t yet have consensus mechanisms that are both energy efficient and battle-tested at scale, we don’t have an array of development tools that make building applications on this stack easy, quick, safe, and secure, we don’t have hundreds of millions of users with crypto browsers & wallets, and we don’t have all the other things that would need to be in place in order to move into the deployment phase.
But we do have the one thing that is the hallmark of a classic installation phase. We have a frenzy of innovation and financial capital that has been unleashed by the ICO boom, itself a creation of the crypto tech cycle.
Drinking From The Crypto Firehose – AVC
— Read on avc.com/2018/07/drinking-from-the-crypto-firehose/