Jun 23, 2022
Olaf Carlson-Wee is the Founder
and CEO of Polychain Capital, a $5 billion investment firm that was
one of the first institutional crypto funds upon its launch in
2016. Olaf is among the crypto OGs, he was the first hire at
Coinbase and led risk management before founding Polychain with
initial investments from Sequoia, a16z, Union Square Ventures, and
Founders Fund. He was named to both the Forbes 30 Under 30 and
Fortune 40 Under 40.
Our conversation explores Olaf’s vision for what is to come in the
crypto ecosystem. We cover his early discovery of
cryptocurrency, his experience at Coinbase, and his founding and
strategy at Polychain. We then turn to Olaf’s perspective on the
present and future of incentive systems, social media, bear
markets, layer 1 protocols, bridges across protocols, NFTs, DeFi,
DAOs, and stablecoins.