Ani Pai is an investment partner at Dragonfly, where he focuses on highly technical Web3 projects in emerging markets.
Ani believes that progress happens on the frontier. Whether it be outer space, the mind/body, and the oceans. He’s focused on using crypto to explore these frontiers and eventually merging crypto networks with analog industries in order to shepherd the next billions users into web3.
We discuss the state of the crypto industry in the wake of FTX’s implosion, why he believes the next generation of founders will need to be “polymathic in their interests and skillsets, and whether web3’s promise will be fulfilled in the United States or emerging markets, or even a network state/new country.
This episode is for anyone interested in how the marriage of crypto bits with the world of atoms could define the next era of tech.
Learn more about Dragonfly here: https://www.dragonfly.xyz/
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