MacroCrunch Sean Bill

In this episode we cover artificial intelligence and the rise of decentralized finance.

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer @ Bitwise

Jessica Raybeck, Head of Institutional CRM @ BlockFi

James Vermillion, Founder and CEO @ Vermillion Private Wealth


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Artificial Intelligence is on the rise. If it takes on such functions as executing trades and picking securities, what are the benefits and the costs? Will there be a human toll? What are the benefits and innovations we expect from AI in the near future? In this episode I discuss these and other topics with Maggie Ralbovsky, Managing Director, Wilshire Associates, Dr. Ashby Monk, Executive Director, Stanford Global Projects Center, and Alex Stimpson Chief Investment Officer at Corient Capital Partners. This episode was originally recorded on March 30, 2021 at the ALTs LA conference, a special thanks to the organization for letting me share it here!


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In this episode I interview Lex Sokolin, a futurist and entrepreneur working on the next generation of financial services. He is the Global Fintech Co-Head at ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. Lex focuses on emerging digital assets, public and private enterprise blockchain solutions, and decentralized finance and autonomous organizations. I highly recommend Lex's free weekly letter The FinTech Blueprint which can be found on Substack or at www.fintechblueprint.com You can also follow Lex on social media at:


Twitter @lexsokolin
LinkedIn @alexeysokolin
Medium @sokolin
Angelist @alexey-sokolin
Quora @alexey-sokolin


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Zach Coelius is a Founder turned Investor. In this episode we talk about Zach's journey from Minnesota to the Silicon Valley and how he got started as an Angel Investor. Zach takes us through his experience of starting a company, growing that business and then getting gutted by a tech giant. It was a painful but valuable experience with many lessons learned and ultimately helped Zach become a valued Advisor and investor. In this episode we talk about pattern recognition, investment vehicles and lessons learned along the journey. 

You can follow Zach on Twitter at https://twitter.com/zachcoelius 

If you are an Accredited Investor you can invest with Zach at https://angel.co/v/back/coelius-capital


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In this episode Nick and I discuss investing in China and focus on the private equity space and portfolio construction. We talk about the growth in the consumer, healthcare and services sectors. The episode was recorded prior Covid-19.

As the head of Asian Investments, Mr. Lee spearheads Morgan Creek's investment strategy and activities in the region with a particular focus on China, investing in both funds and co-investment opportunities. Prior to relocating to Shanghai in 2011, Mr. Lee was based in Morgan Creek's Hong Kong office from 2009 where he assisted in all Asian private investment activities in the region. Mr. Lee joined Morgan Creek in its Chapel Hill headquarters in 2007 where he facilitated screening and analyzing private asset fund globally. Mr. Lee received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce, with concentrations in Finance and Accounting, from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.  Mr. Lee is fluent in Mandarin and has earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst SM designation.

https://www.morgancreekcap.com/team/nicholas-lee-caia/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-lee-39baa96/?originalSubdomain=cn

https://twitter.com/macrocrunch

https://macrocrunch.substack.com/


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In this episode Cody and I discuss investing in revolutionary companies. Cody bought Apple at $1, Google at its IPO, Facebook at $20, Tesla at $200 and he still owns all of them! He is an investor in SpaceX and sees space exploration as a multi-trillion dollar opportunity. This episode was recorded in December of 2019 in Abu Dhabi.

Cody Willard is the publisher of a subscription-based investment newsletter TradingWithCody.com and the author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, "Everything You Need to Know About Investing" as well as several other books.

He was an anchor on the Fox Business Network, where he was the co-host of the long-time #1-rated show on the network, Fox Business Happy Hour, was the Wall Street Correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and was Larry's Kudlow's sidekick on CNBC's Kudlow & Company. He has had a featured investment column for The Financial Times, Marketwatch, the WSJ, TheStreet.com. Willard also served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University where he taught class called "Revolutionomics" focused on technology, business and politics.

He began his career at Oppenheimer & Co. in 1996 (after his first job in New York City, a barista at Starbucks[1]) and was chief analyst at Visual Radio, a technology venture capital fund, and vice president of wholesale operations at Broadview Networks, a telecommunications company. 

https://twitter.com/codywillard

https://tradingwithcody.com/

https://twitter.com/macrocrunch

https://macrocrunch.substack.com/


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