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Episodes
58 episodes
Creating a decentralized music industry. With André Allen Anjos (RAC).
The music industry has long been at odds with the internet, swiftly moving to shut down platforms like Napster and LimeWire in the early 2000s. But what could be achieved by embracing it? Our latest guest, André Allen Anjos – better known as RA...
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The evolution of open source. With David Heinemeier Hansson.
David Heinemeier Hansson is a legend among the developer community. As the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp and HEY, he has helped revolutionize open-source developing and the software as a service industry. David is also a N...
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Fun and games: exploring the world of immersive entertainment. With Brent Bushnell.
Our latest podcast guest, Brent Bushnell, has worked on everything from the Super Bowl to OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" music video. Brent is an engineer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Two Bit Circus, an LA-based experimental entertainment co...
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Hackatao: the OG crypto artists. With Sandie Zanini.
Hackatao have been at the forefront of the crypto art world since way back in 2018, when they launched their first NFT: "Girl Next Door". In this episode, we dive into the mysterious world of the pioneering crypto art collective with their spok...
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What's next for human civilization? With Peter Ward.
On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth – where it came from, how it ends, and what it means for us. Peter is a professor at the University of Washington and the Spri...
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The future of community investing. With Joyce Yang.
Over the last five years, Global Coin Research (GCR) has transformed from a media platform into a tokenized, decentralized community of learners and Web3 investors. In this episode, we dive into GCR’s impressive evolution with its founder, Joyc...
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Startup from scratch in a global recession. With Young Sohn.
Today we’re joined by tech royalty! Young Sohn was President of Samsung Electronics and co-founder of the world’s largest startup competition, Extreme Tech Challenge.We take this golden opportunity to ask some of today’s most urgent ques...
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47:28
Bank or bust? The current state of NFTs. With Stephen Young.
Crypto crunches and blockchain busts have been dominating Web3 headlines. And yet, our latest TOAOA guest has just taken his NFT company through its best month ever. So what’s the real state of NFTs?Stephen Young is a Web3 native. As a t...
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Wanting a Web3 world for all creators. With Matt Alston
Making Web3 accessible is a must. But how can we make it easier for the average artist or creator to trade in their canvases for blocks on the chain? Matt Alson’s company, Bonfire, is handing over easy-to-use tools, ready to break down blockcha...
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48:08
Tech’s most exciting game plan. With Carlos Pereira.
Gaming is worth more than the music or movie industry. And its growth is off the charts. This is THE industry to follow!That’s why we’ve invited Carlos Pereira into the studio. Carlos is a Principal at BITKRAFT Ventures, a global investm...
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How to make money & spread it evenly. With Phil Libin.
Phil’s manifesto: “Everyone should be paid equally and work where they have the best job and live where they have the best life!”Former CEO of Evernote and co-founder of All Turtles and mmhmm, Phil Libin, sits down with TOA founder Niko....
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Rewarding your community with macro tokenomics. With Bradley Miles
It's the toke-onomy stupid!The role of social tokens should not be underestimated. It's an effective tool that can build an engaging community, is a fair way to reward creators, and is a potentially killer business model. B...
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The man who tokenized his soul. With Mike Merrill.
Meet the first publicly traded human in history! Meet Mike Merrill.Also known as MKmikeyM, this guest handed his life over to a bunch of shareholders (including ex-girlfriends), who voted and dictated all of his life decisions.Mik...
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Making Web3 investment everybody’s business. With Ian Lee.
Find out what made Snoop Dogg drop it like it's Web3!Ian Lee is co-founder of Syndicate, a revolutionary new platform which can help anyone become a Web3 investor.Syndicate has made it big through ingenious simplicity and a handfu...
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41:22
Looking at economic problems through a macro lens. With Claudia Sahm.
Inflation, inequality, climate change, and Covid – just a few problems with the current economic landscape. So, is there any cause for optimism?As the Director of Macro-Economic Research at the Jane Family Institute and a for...
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The hard truth about the global art market. With Magnus Resch.
The art market is broken – so how can we fix it?Magnus Resch is a trailblazing art market economist, serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author. He's well-known for his bold takes on how the art world operates, many of which were high...
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45:52
Investing in the tech of tomorrow. With Albert Wenger.
“The only scarcity left for humanity is our own attention”, Albert Wenger.In this episode, we sit down with Wenger, the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures (USV) – one of tech’s most important venture capital firm...
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51:21
How beauty shapes our cities. With Lorenza Baroncelli.
Even if we don't realize it, art and architecture impact our lives every day.Lorenza Baroncelli is an architect, curator, and the artistic director at renowned design and art museum Triennale Milano. She has worked as a researcher ...
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45:17
The promise (and potential problems) of genetic engineering. With Francoise Baylis.
Genetic engineering may sound like the stuff of sci-fi, but is in fact more relevant than ever.Francoise Baylis is a leading bioethicist, research professor at Dalhousie University, and author of "Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethi...
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50:52
The state of crypto in the brave new (decentralised) world. With Lasse Clausen.
In this recorded live conversation crypto heavyweight Lasse Clausen joined Niko Woischnik for an important fireside conversation, followed by a live Q&A with questions from the audience.The cryptospace has developed exponentially in ...
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Examining the history – and uncertain future – of sand. With Vince Beiser.
The three natural resources humans consume most are water, air... and sand. Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author who has been featured in Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times
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47:27
Transforming financial distribution from human to digital. With Lex Sokolin.
In addition to providing an infrastructure for countless FinTech services, blockchain technology has forced us to reconsider the notion that online media is worthless.Lex Sokolin is a writer, artist, and the Head Economist at ConsenSys, ...
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The demise of the nation state through technology and blockchain. With Pia Mancini
The world is leaning towards a new jurisdiction, one that shares commons of the planet on a global scale. Is the nation state becoming redundant?The narrative of the nation state works on the theory that it is necessary, however with col...
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54:59
Goodbye traditional education system... hello accessible cohort-based courses. With Wes Kao
The rise of cohort-based learning, and why traditional education systems can’t weather the tech evolution storm forever.Education has always been cohort-based, however, when the internet arrived this disrupted community-driven learning into...
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The nonprofit newsroom taking back the power to realign the future of journalism. With Julia Angwin
Investigative journalism and reporting are under threat. The future of journalism looks bleak without the reinforcement of the truth and the realignment of power and technology.One of the largest negative impacts of technology is on ...
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