It has been dubbed "one of the best venture investments of all time" by Packy McCormick, generating over a 4000X return in 3-and-a-half years. Today, we are talking with Chris McCann and Edith Yeung, the earliest investors in Solana, and partners at Race Capital. They also unbelievably were the earliest investors in FTX and started Race Capital in the midst of crypto winter!
On this episode, we talk with Edith and Chris about the stories behind both of those investments and their views on what's next in crypto from their vantage point in the center of the ecosystem.
Links:
- The Generalist's FTX piece with Race Capital's Public Investment Memo
- Picture: Chris and Edith with Jihan Wu, Founder of Bitmain
- Picture: Edith with Anatoly (Solana founder) and Min Kim (ICON co-founder)
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