Never Sell Your Bitcoin with Shehzan Maredia Interview - CEO of Lava

About this episode

In this episode, Jake interviews Shehzan Maredia, CEO of Lava, about their recent funding and new Bitcoin-backed financial product.

Follow the Built on Bitcoin pod on X: @JakeBlockchain We sat down with Shehzan Maredia, the CEO of Lava, to discuss their recent $200m raise of VC & debt for growth, launch of the Bitcoin-backed line-of-credit product called BLOC, and address questions...

People in this episode

Host: Jake

Guest: Shehzan Maredia

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• venture capital
• financial products
• cryptocurrency
• interviews

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Lava
• BLOC
• venture capital
• debt financing
• custody
• cryptocurrency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lava, Built on Bitcoin, VC

Products: BLOC

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