Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

We’re back! New brand, who dis?

For Fintechs Sake is now officially the Fintech Family Hour! Scream it from the rafters! Tell your fintech friends, tell your barista, tell your mom :)

We are kicking this re-brand off in the best way possible by sharing a live interview with THE Vinod Khosla. We talk about his work with Sam Altman and solving proof of personhood through their Worldcoin cryptocurrency, abuse he is seeing in Crypto, how to innovate in hard times and we wrap up with Vinod issuing a challenge to the listeners…Enjoy!

Special thanks to our exclusive sponsor: FS Vector - Learn more at https://fsvector.com/

Links:

Vinod on Twitter - https://twitter.com/vkhosla

Anchorage Digital - https://www.anchorage.com/

Worldcoin’s $115m raise - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/25/sam-altmans-crypto-project-worldcoin-got-more-coin-in-latest-115m-raise/

Khosla Ventures - https://www.khoslaventures.com/

Timestamps

(00:04:06) Introducing Vinod & discussing Fintech innovation since ’15

(00:06:53) Identifying abusive uses of Crypto

(00:10:59) Anchorage and Lead Bank

(00:14:00) Worldcoin and solving proof of personhood

(00:20:29) How mainstreaming Crypto and Web3 can improve relations between China and the USA

(00:22:15) Innovating in hard times

(00:28:45) Vinod’s driving inspiration: Working on hard problems