The $2.2B Bet on Digital Assets' Institutional Future with Guy Wuollet

About this episode

Guy Wuollet discusses a16z's recent $2.2B fundraising for Crypto Fund V and the future of digital assets.

Guy Wuollet joins The Rollup to cover how a16z just raised $2.2B for Crypto Fund V, and why the best is yet to come. Guy Wuollet is a General Partner at a16z Crypto, a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups since 2013. The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro & Fund V 00:28 Crypto Graduates 01:00 Products People Use 01:38 Stablecoin Neobanking 02:55 Genius Act Opens Era 03:07 Is It Boring Now? 04:18 Infrastructure Bottleneck Solved 06:05 Adapt or Die Era 07:02 New Founder Archetype 08:03 AI People Find Crypto 09:09 Fund V Thesis: Stablecoins + Perps 09:44 AI Agents Need Crypto 10:14 Compute & Energy Markets 10:52 Creator Platforms Return 11:43 The Burn Rate Card 13:27 B2B vs. B2C Bifurcation 15:02 Blockchains = Cloud Moment 17:36 Read Write Own Today 19:39 Crypto vs. Digital Assets 20:53 "I Feel Like I'm Winning" 21:19 Eddie Promoted to GP 22:18 Deploying $2.2B Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd... Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast Follow us on X…

People in this episode

Hosts: Robbie, Andy

Guest: Guy Wuollet

Topics covered

• digital assets
• venture capital
• crypto
• institutional investment
• web3
• stablecoins

Keywords

• digital assets
• a16z
• Crypto Fund V
• venture capital
• stablecoins
• web3
• institutional investment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: a16z, Crypto Fund V, The Rollup

Places: financial capital of the world

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