Speaker Interview: Alex Blania l KBW2024

[Music] people trying to verify their dogs uh well I mean so it it doesn't work but it just just seeing it happen is pretty funny it's like a chihuaha or something in front of an orb it's just a interesting first sight the first time it got kind of it it leaked to the public I think it was like this truly ridiculous thing and everyone was just making fun of it and no one was taking it seriously to like wildly hating it uh and I think that now really shifted because people starting to come around around the assumptions we took when we started this project like we believe that AI will turn the direction we're in right now and we believe that it will really change the internet the way it exists today and so I think um it started from like a place of this is ridiculous and and crazy to now I think many of the most credible people in the space um being actually really excited about it and trying to support it which was to me a very cool [Music] experience so so if I think about crypto on kind of a global scale what kind of what places are interesting I actually think it comes down to a couple uh very concentrated clusters I think it's uh I think Latin America's one but within Latin America more specifically probably Argentina and Brazil where I think like for a lot of like a lot of things come together of why it's a very exciting time there to build and scale uh and I think in Asia it's uh South Korea and Japan because I think there's a lot of openness both from The Tech Community and now increasing more the government um and then the last one would probably be actually Africa but that's much harder to um to really get [Music] going well so I think um my team did not want me to to say this here but I think the it it is just a very honest answer I think my one of the craziest um parts of my career was I had to testify in front of Kenyan Parliament MH and um these were like the the most interesting questions because they were like uh everything from deeply technical to deeply religious um so like um do we attract demons or something with with the orb or something like that and it just like there was truly the most surprising uh question or it was really hard for me to formulate answer