E89: eToro CEO Yoni Assia on 2008 Survival, Ethereum’s Origins, and the AI Trading Future
About this episode
Yoni Assia discusses his journey in tech, eToro's evolution, and the future of AI in trading.
I sat down with Yoni Assia , co-founder & CEO of eToro , for a wide-ranging conversation that spans Bitcoin’s earliest days , eToro’s journey through the 2008 crisis , and why Yoni thinks AI agents will soon trade more than humans . We talk about Yoni’s early path into tech, his first startup (and the tough realities of unit economics), and how eToro evolved from a trading product into a mass-market platform powered by social investing and CopyTrader . Yoni also shares the inside story of his early crypto conviction - board fights, Mt. Gox, Colored Coins, and his reaction to the Ethereum whitepaper - plus thoughts on NFTs, UBI via GoodDollar (and who's still using it - someone! shocking!) , prediction markets, geopolitics, and whether quantum computing is a real Bitcoin risk (it is, and it isn't - Yoni spells it out real clearly, probably yet another Yoni prophesy).
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