Managing Partner at Dragonfly. Effective Altruist. Airbnb, Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase) alum. Writer. Former poker pro. Donate 33% of my income to charity.
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Every week I sit down with three friends—Tom Schmidt (Dragonfly), Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet), and Robert Leshner (Superstate)—and we argue about what’s actually going on in crypto. We’re all investors or founders, so we talk about the industry from the inside.
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A few episodes that hold up well if you’re new to the show:
Talks, interviews, and podcast appearances. For the weekly show, listen to The Chopping Block, which I record every week. Building a $4B Fund in Public (Surface Area, 2026) Crypto's Not Made for Humans—It's for AI (Bankless, 2026) In Defense of Exponentials, read aloud (The Chopping Block, 2025) The Secrets of a Top-Tier Crypto VC (Epicenter, 2025) How to Distribute Tokens (Network State Conference, 2025) Debate: Will Synthetic Dollars Cause the...
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What I’m doing these days. Last updated August 2026. Running Dragonfly with my partners. We launched our fourth fund, $650M, in February 2026. Recording The Chopping Block every week. Writing, mostly on X. The longer essays get archived on this site. Thinking a lot about what AI does to crypto, to venture, and to my own job. Still donating a large part of my income to charity. Still only drinking...
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