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Speaker 1: I'm Stacy Marie Ishmael, Managing editor of Crypto for Bloomberg News,

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Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg Crypto, a daily Bloomberg I Heart podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, June seven, California. Silicon Valley is both a

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Speaker 1: place and a philosophy. It's hailed as v place for

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Speaker 1: or venture capitalists, are an integral part of this mythology.

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Speaker 1: These are the people who provide the private capital billions

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Speaker 1: big thing. Despite the volatile crypto market, some of those

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Speaker 1: vcs are still betting big on the potential of the blockchain.

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Speaker 1: For the latest on this, Bloomberg reporter Hanna Milla joins

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Speaker 1: me for a look at how crypto is influencing VC

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Speaker 1: and vice versa. Hannah, thank you again as all it's

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Speaker 1: for joining us on the show. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: So today we're going to talk about venture capital. I

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Speaker 1: am delighted to be recording this episode literally in San

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Speaker 1: is a lot of tech and vcs in town. This

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Speaker 1: is a place as part of you know the tech

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Speaker 1: have heard about that has given rise to one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest sources of funding for tech startups, many kinds

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Speaker 1: of startups. We are primarily tech and increasingly crypto startups.

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Speaker 1: What do our listeners need to understand about venture capital

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Speaker 1: and crypto. Well, there's big money coming in. That's the

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Speaker 1: first thing to understand. Venture capitalists are really excited about

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Speaker 1: crypto and web three startups. Unlimited partners are the people

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Speaker 1: who say, yes, you can write this check, or you

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Speaker 1: can't exactly or increasingly just like do a bank transfer

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Speaker 1: for a very large amount of money. Yes. And when

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Speaker 1: you say they're raising big, big money, like, give give

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Speaker 1: me a sense of proportion here, what are we talking about. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: there was a four point five billion dollar fund, a

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Speaker 1: the older, people, say, more prestigious names in venture capital.

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Speaker 1: They've been in crypto for a long time. This is

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Speaker 1: not their first for a into investing in crypto companies,

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Speaker 1: innovative ways VC is partnering with crypto start ups. A

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Speaker 1: have had, shall we say, a challenging year. There have

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Speaker 1: that you mentioned responding to this more challenging landscape. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we've transformed from you know, if you have money,

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Speaker 1: make crypto. In this particular context, how have the vcs,

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Speaker 1: these projects. A sixteen Z actually delicates out portions of

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