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The SpaceX IPO: How a Banker Reads the Largest Offering in History
Keith examines the SpaceX offering through business economics, voting control, and the structure of the deal.
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Growth Playbook: Vision, Governance, and Investment Insights
An operating perspective on growth: preparation, governance, investment readiness, and resilient infrastructure.
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Treasure from Ruins: Secret Wealth in Abandoned Gold Mines with Bennett Yankowitz of Gold Vault Capital
Bennett Yankowitz explains the business of reclaiming gold from abandoned mines, including site selection, permitting, and extraction.
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Growing Cross-Border Business via Blockchain
On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Wayne Huang, CEO & Co-Founder of XREX (“x-rex”) a blockchain trade technology that enables cross border trade. Wayne shares his background of how the CEO and Co-Foun…
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Fred Chesnais, CEO of Atari: Leveling up with a new VCS and Cryptocurrency
What does Atari, the iconic video game maker and cryptocurrency have in common? Find out on this episode of Silicon Valley Insider when Keith Koo’s guest is Fred Chesnais the CEO of Atari who discusses their new Atari video computer syst…
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A Blockchain Legal Pioneer on the State of DeFi and Crypto
On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Jacob Farber, Co-Founder and Partner of Ouroboros, LLP. Jacob is an early pioneer in legal matters regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency having worked with dozens of clien…
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Upland the Top Blockchain Game: Monopoly Money as Virtual Currency
On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is serial entrepreneur Dirk Lueth, Co-Founder of Upland a Monopoly-like mobile game built on blockchain that connects virtual worlds (called metaverses) to their correspond…
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Icecap – Tokenization of Investment Grade Diamonds
On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Jacques Voorhees, CEO of Icecap Diamonds a company that is creating a two-way marketplace for investment-grade diamonds using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Jacques is very…
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Raising Capital Beyond Silicon Valley
In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s returning guest is Jonathan Nelson, Managing Director of the Hack Fund and founder of Hackers and Founders. Jonathan updates Keith on how the Hack Fund is moving forward with putting…
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Safer Crypto with Miko Matsumura
In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Miko Matsumura, General Partner of Gumi Ventures and founder of U.S. based virtual currency exchange Evercoin. Miko shares how his passion for open-source software b…
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Startup Survival Advice from Zoom’s First Investor
In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is 4-time unicorn angel investor Dan Scheinman. Dan ran corporate development for Cisco Systems before becoming a private investor using his own capital to fund unicorns such a…
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How Blockchain can be used for Censorship Resistance and Voting Rights
In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Douglas Horn, Chief Architect of Telos a decentralized blockchain network and founder of Goodblock a blockchain development company. Throughout the show Keith and Douglas ex…
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