Calvin Liu is a strategy lead at Compound, an open-source, autonomous interest rate protocol and one of the most widely used systems built on Ethereum, with tens of thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. He was previously founder of the iOS app Outpour.

In this episode he talks with Sasha about:

• Making decisions as a first-time entrepreneur versus a serial entrepreneur

• What convinced him to join Compound when it was just a deck and a white paper

• Product frameworks on deciding which problems to prioritize as an early-stage startup

• The secret to seeing DeFi and crypto projects being built in real time

• How to get feedback on your startup idea from others in the crypto space

Episode links:

Compound - https://compound.finance

Calvin Liu - @cjliu49 (https://twitter.com/cjliu49)

Pantera Capital - https://www.panteracapital.com

Sasha Hudzilin - @AliaksandrH (https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH)

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