S1E12 - Emilie Choi - Global Finance without a Middleman
In this episode we find out about the world of cryptocurrency and the crypto economy by speaking with a leading executive from one of the world's fastest crypto exchanges - the first to go public - sometimes described as the Amazon of assets - Coinbase. Emilie Choi is Coinbase President and COO. She spent eight years with Linkedin as their vice president of corporate development before joining Coinbase's founder, Brian Armstrong, in March of 2018 as Vice President of Business, Data and International.
In our conversation we shed much light onto the rising phenomenon of decentralized finance in the budding era of “Web3,” as it has been called - the successor to Web 2.0. Choi frames this new world as one where we will both read and write, but also own digital assets that are portable, and which have significant implications for how our future global economy will function and grow. We expand our financial literacy of this new and wild world of tokens, blockchain traceability, the merge, regulation, and speculation vs. underlying technological platforms of innovation. Hear Choi describe some of her own personal journey, and learn a bit about Coinbase the company, as well. Join us.
Conversation recorded on October 7, 2022.