E149: the Trezor CEO Episode
@matej_zak is the CEO of @Trezor , the most trusted and oldest cryptocurrency hardware wallets company and inventor of BIP39, the now-universal standard for using a human-readable "seed phrase" to back up and recover a cryptocurrency wallet.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:58 Switzerland Activity
7:32 Where Matej Is From
8:00 Who Are You
9:30 Especially Proud Of Being The CEO Of Trezor?
10:34 From Product Manager To CEO
12:38 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @paradex @Mantle
13:31 Product Driven vs Business Driven Explained
16:07 People, Product, Profit Explained
19:07 The Difficulty Of This Mindset Early On
20:55 When The Founders Realized Branding Was Important
22:52 Explain Trezor To Your Mom
23:39 Why Was Trezor Born In Prague?
26:13 What Happened In The Czech Republic In 1953
29:27 Things You Learn In School
30:32 Partnerships: @Trezor @BitwiseInvest @SuiNetwork @StoryProtocol
31:34 Questioning Everything vs Too Complicated
33:09 Explain This Monetary System In A Nutshell
36:55 Stress From Knowing About The System
38:35 What Is Self Custody In Crypto
43:55 Uncompromising Self Custody Meaning
45:21 Hot Wallet vs Cold Wallet
49:09 Number Of Wallets Sold vs People In Crypto
52:42 What Goes Into The Creation Of Trezor Wallets
55:01 Why 200 People In The Company
56:52 What People Were Doing Before To Store Crypto
59:58 Still Using 12 To 24 Words To Store Crypto?
1:02:08 Why Do You Need To Use Paper & Words? Isn’t It Digital?
1:06:50 NFCs Better Explained And The Differences
1:08:50 What Makes Trezor Wallet Special
1:14:43 Do People Own A Cold Wallet And Aren’t Safe
1:15:36 One Takeaway From This Conversation
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