Blockcrunch - 20 Minute Crypto Insights

Who best to understand struggles of crypto founders than fellow founders?    Tascha is the Co-Founder of Alpha Venture DAO and built a DeFi protocol that had a TVL of $3 billion at its peak.   Today, she joins us as a mentor in Tangent to share with us:   How Alpha scaled to $3B in deposits 2 crypto verticals Tascha is excited about How to identify great founders in 60 minutes   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice. ------------ Timestamps ------------- (00:00:00) – Introduction (00:02:42) – Early days of Alpha Finance (00:06:10) – Motivation behind building levered yield farming back in 2020 (00:09:44) – What is Alpha Venture (00:13:17) – How to be a successful founder (00:17:53) – Balancing between reinvention and solving pain points (00:26:07) – Key areas that Tascha is excited for (00:30:09) – Thought process for identifying market opportunity (00:32:11) – Identifying great founders to invest in (00:40:36) – Difficulties of running a crypto start-up ----------- Sponsors ------------- dYd