Joys of Compounding
Episode 26 Blockchain’s Carpenter
Joys of Compounding

Episode 26: Blockchain’s Carpenter

Joys of Compounding

Episode 26

Blockchain’s Carpenter

Chad Cascarilla is the co-founder and CEO of Paxos. We cover the early experiences that prepared him to launch his own fund at a young age, his pivot from trad-fi to crypto, and the benefits of accelerating the development and adoption of blockchain infrastructure.

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Show Notes

(00:00:00) Welcome to Joys of Compounding

(00:05:32) Chad's Early Life and Career

(00:09:50) The Journey to Notre Dame

(00:19:45) The Path to Wall Street

(00:27:16) Launching Cedar Hill

(00:35:30) Navigating the Financial Crisis

(00:46:35) Notable Companies and the Origin of Paxos

(00:48:34) Creating Liberty City Ventures

(00:54:55) Challenges in Financial Services

(00:59:21) The Promise of Blockchain

(01:10:59) Regulatory Landscape and Future Prospects

(01:21:51) Advice for Consumers, Companies, and Investors

Blockchain’s Carpenter

Introduction

Rick
Our teacher today is Chad Cascarilla, co-founder and CEO of Paxos, the leading regulated blockchain infrastructure company that is reimagining a complete technological replatforming of our global financial markets. This conversation was a ton of fun for us, mainly because Chad is just one of the most fascinating and compelling people I've had the privilege of knowing and learning from.

I think one dimension of this, and hopefully this comes through in our conversation with him, is that he embodies a number of dualities, almost paradoxes that I've rarely seen present at the same time in the same person. On the one hand, he's a successful hedge fund investor who was one of the earliest and most accurate at identifying and capitalizing off the excesses and bubbles that catalyzed the global financial crisis.

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