In this episode, we talk to Jack Zampolin, co-founder of Sommelier finance & Strangelove validator. Sommelier is a bet that Ethereum will be a dominant player in the global economy. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Strangelove Validation Services operates a secure validator node on the Cosmos network. Strangelove has been running the hub software (starting with testnets) since the summer of 2018. Jack's Twitter (https://twitter.com/jack_zampolin) We spoke to Jack about Sommelier finance, the Cypherpunk's Manifesto, and: Jack's professional path The importance of soft skills What inspires founders What do advisors do Economic models The technical aspects of Sommelier finance Zero sum game in blockchain Feckups Building teams Entrepreneurship culture Jack's dog Cosmos Ecosystem development Communities Professional journalism Validators The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode: | Tendermint (https://tendermint.com/) | Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/) | Sommelier finance (https://sommelier.finance/) | Strangelove Ventures (https://www.strangelove.ventures/) | Akash (https://www.citizencosmos.space/akash) | Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/en/) | Uniswap (https://uniswap.org/) | IBC (https://github.com/cosmos/ibc) | Kava (https://www.kava.io/) | Osmosis (https://www.citizencosmos.space/osmosis) | Cardano (https://cardano.org/) | Juno (https://junochain.com/) | A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/) | Gravity DEX (https://cosmos.network/gravity-dex/) | Elon Musk (https://twitter.com/elonmusk) | Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian) | Twitter (https://twitter.com) | Evmos (https://evmos.org/) | Agoric (https://www.citizencosmos.space/agoric) | Conversations with Jack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&list=PLem9m7LMmHUeWBtXjTR91Ft-qni7vHZbB) | If you like what we do at Citizen Cosmos: Stake with Citizen Cosmos validator (https://www.citizencosmos.space/staking) Help support the project via Gitcoin Grants (https://gitcoin.co/grants/1113/citizen-cosmos-podcast) Listen to the YouTube version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j1Ir87S4) Read our blog (https://citizen-cosmos.github.io/blog/) Check out our GitHub (https://github.com/citizen-cosmos/Citizen-Cosmos) Join our Telegram (https://t.me/citizen_cosmos) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cosmos_voice) Sign up to the RSS feed (https://www.citizencosmos.space/rss) Special Guest: Jack Zampolin.