Strange Water Podcast Trailer

**Speaker A:** Two years ago, I doubt I could have told you what Ethereum even is. I might have been able to cobble together a somewhat coherent explanation of Bitcoin, maybe. And then in May 2021, I listened to Hayden Adams explain Uniswap on a Bloomberg podcast and I felt a low rumble deep inside of my bones. That was the first time I heard the call of Ethereum, the world computer. These days, that distant tug has transformed into a full blown zealotry. I believe that Ethereum is the inevitable, credibly neutral property layer of the Internet. In retrospect, it's not very surprising that I ended up here. Back in 2009, when Bitcoin was first getting started, I was at Stanford studying computer science. My career began at Anheuser Busch InBev, where I learned how finance operates at a colossal scale. And so when I heard Hayden briefly walk through Ethereum on the way to explaining decentralized markets, my life found its purpose. Today, I find myself in an incredibly fortunate position of getting to speak with the men, women, and the anons that are actually building this new empire. The conversations online, they can get dicey, but when the conversations are between people, at least for me, this space gets more awe inspiring and the conviction grows deeper. And so I wanted to share some of those conversations with you. It's hard not to experience 2023 without a background sense of dread. Pick your existential crisis. Political environmental pandemic, large scale war. Humans are not coordinating well enough to solve anything. To live in the 2020s is to be adrift in unfamiliar seas, hopelessly lost from where we came from and unknowingly far from where we're going. In moments like this, I remember a favorite quote from an old hero, Frank Herbert Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.