Good Game
Imran Khan and Qiao Wang
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06/12/24 • 43 min
Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss Celebrity Coins.
No BS crypto insights for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:09) Jim Cramer Interviewing Gary Gensler
(02:23) What's on Imran's Mind
(02:43) Celebrity Coins
(09:14) Calling Out the Bad Actors
(10:05) Why Weren't People Angry at Trump NFTs?
(14:22) "People are angry because Ansem is on the other side"
(15:15) "Ansem's Angels is a meme, right?"
(18:22) Pump Got Hacked
(21:10) What is a Good Celebrity Coin Design?
(24:18) Circle.tech
(30:52) Solana Token Extension
(32:27) A New Trend on Tiktok
(34:17) Could Creator Tokens be Extended to All Creators in YouTube/Tiktok?
(36:22) Music Tokens - Crate
(39:12) Hot Takes on Twitter About Celebrity Coins
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
10/11/24 • 60 min
Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the current state of the crypto market.
No BS crypto insights for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:43) The New Main Character: Murad
(02:55) Murad's Tactics
(08:57) Bullish 2025?
(10:14) Bittensor
(11:06) Kamala On Crypto?
(13:01) Price of Bitcoin Under Each Candidate
(15:14) BTC vs. ALTs vs. Memecoins
(18:24) Where Are We in This Cycle?
(19:20) Moonshot & Coinbase Wallet App Store Rank
(21:13) DexScreener UX
(25:31) Good Tech Needs Good Distribution
(27:10) Imran's Cybertruck
(29:07) Rumor - CEXs to Require FDV Limit?
(33:07) "Startups need less and less money over time"
(39:34) The Benefits of Competition
(41:38) Shitcoin Talk
(43:45) Qiao's Stock Portfolio
(44:47) "Nvidia is the only real startup in AI"
(46:01) o1-preview
(50:00) What The AI Coding Co-pilots Do Under The Hood
(53:42) Tesla's Self-Driving Capabilities
(55:34) Crypto Startups Building Robot Models
(56:11) Tesla Bot - Optimus
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
06/26/24 • 139 min
Imran and Qiao review the first half of 2024 and share predictions for the rest of the year.
No BS crypto insights for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:22) Welcome to Good Game
(01:48) Where Are We Going Next?
(02:38) Andrew Kang's Eth ETF Analysis
(07:15) "We had a lot of good news and the market couldn't go up"
(10:19) "We're running out of good news"
(10:36) Rate Cuts, Short-Term Bearish?
(12:09) Rate Cuts May Not Even Happen?
(12:55) "One of the most absurd statistics I've ever seen in my life"
(14:37) Another Nvidia FUD
(15:24) "We can't go up on good news"
(16:31) The Launch of Blast
(18:29) Overview/Summary of The 1st Half of The Year
(18:47) Speculation, The Good and Bad
(20:33) Market Fatigue in Meme Coins
(24:16) Yugalabs' Offshoot NFT
(25:12) CBB Decided Not to Market Make on Blur Anymore
(27:03) Will the NFTs Come Back?
(28:44) Pudgy Penguins' Presence Across Social Media
(32:15) Decentralizing Disney
(36:48) DeFi and Layer 2s Overview for The 1st Half of the Year
(43:46) AI Crypto
(44:52) AI Crypto Projects Qiao is Excited About Today
(51:59) Crate
(53:26) AI Video
(54:34) AI Girlfriends
(57:51) Impact of Social Media on Mental Health
(01:01:32) AI Characters on Chain
(01:03:04) Some OnlyFans Girls Using AI Chatbots
(01:07:15) Financial Nihilism in Crypto
(01:09:41) Stablecoins and Global Impact
(01:19:49) Real-World Assets
(01:26:19) Regulatory Environment and SEC Approvals
(01:26:43) Trump in a Bitcoin Event in Miami
(01:27:03) ETFs and SEC Commissioners
(01:29:48) Consumer Apps and Market Trends
(01:39:45) TON
(01:48:04) Some of The Meme Coins May Not Come Back
(01:49:40) Qiao Discovering Hawk Tuah
(01:51:15) Predictions for the Future
(01:54:31) Airdrop Meta
(01:57:33) Industrial Farming
(02:01:04) Predictions on Airdrops and Solana
(02:05:37) DePIN Projects
(02:05:58) Helium Network
(02:13:22) Other DePIN Ideas
(02:16:15) Gaming
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
03/14/23 • 70 min
Top signal for crypto natives.
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Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:49) Welcome to Good Game!
(02:16) Blockchain is a Dark Forest
(05:29) Mt Gox hack
(09:48) The DAO hack 1
(2:54) The vulnerability stack
(16:41) Mango markets oracle manipulation
(22:37) Beanstalk flash loan governance attack
(27:13) Smart contracts and protocol logic vulnerabilities
(28:58) The reentrancy attack explained
(31:19) Bridges have weak security assumptions
(32:49) Binance BNB bridge hack
(34:53) Vitalik's argument on bridge security
(38:17) Harmony bridge hack
(39:21) Don't trust bridges with wrapped assets
(40:29) Ranking bridges on trust
(43:51) Axie Infinity phishing scam
(48:29) Coinbase Web3 Security Report
(49:13) Kevin Rose phishing attack
(51:20) How consumers can keep assets safe
(59:20) Developer recommendations
Links mentioned in episode:
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
03/14/24 • 64 min
Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the current market trends such as Memecoins, Blast L2, SocialFi, and more.
No BS crypto insight for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:56) Welcome to Good Game
(01:24) Memecoins Becoming Very Consensus
(04:11) “There's a Culture Shift”
(08:28) Shitcoins Imran is Following Right Now
(11:28) Tremp and Boden
(17:47) Qiao: I Really Like the Idea of Trading Personal Tokens
(20:24) The Blue-Chip Memecoins
(23:30) A Tweet That Lost Imran a Lot of Followers
(25:55) This Cycle is Unlike Any Other Cycle
(26:34) Why Imran is Still Very Bullish on HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu
(27:21) Bitcoin Puppets
(30:29) Why Memecoins Are Taking Off on Solana
(34:02) Base God (TYBG)
(35:31) "Crypto is Going to Lead Culture Moving Forward"
(39:20) Could Layer 2 Have Its Own Geo-based Chain?
(42:07) Things on SocialFi Imran is Excited About
(43:21) What Friend.tech V2 is About
(46:08) Crypto Startup Stories: Pump.fun
(54:28) Do You Think Friend.tech 2 Will Launch on Blast?
(55:13) Let's Talk About The Blast Launch
(56:51) Unique Apps Built on Blast: Baseline Protocol
(01:02:43) Solana is Retail, Blast is Degen
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
12/05/23 • 78 min
Imran and Qiao invited Anatoly and Meow to discuss why Jupiter on Solana will be bigger than Binance.
No BS crypto insight for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:36) Welcome to Good Game
(01:07) Who is Meow and what is Jupiter?
(02:01) How we met Meow
(03:14) Let's bring on Anatoly and Meow
(03:19) Notes and updates about Solana
(05:22) Anatoly's Idea about being able to disrupt the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq
(09:58) Technical abilities that Solana has
(14:04) Why is it better to build a Nasdaq or NYC on Solana VS on an Ethereum Layer 2
(14:56) The one massive advantage of a decentralized system
(17:18) What is different about the Layer 2
(21:35) Is Compulsivity really important?
(23:56) What is The Most Important Application of Compulsivity?
(24:54) Why people use Uniswap for Ethereum and Jupiter for Solana
(28:32) Hotspots programs for Anatoly and how that scales over time
(38:14) Is this something Ethereum could adapt
(39:28) Understanding How to Leverage EVM
(41:23) Qiao's opinion about the difference between Solana and Ethereum's DNA
(43:43) If Anatoly believes Solana won't experience Layer 2, what is his opinion?
(46:00) Anatoly's definition of layer 2
(48:48) Types of applications that are only possible for Solana that they're excited about
(57:26) Where do they see the space going against Uniswap?
(01:01:47) Insight about Ethereum being instituted in Solana
(01:05:08) Anatoly's feeling about where Solana is today
(01:07:02) Areas that Solana can improve on
(01:08:32) Final thoughts
(01:10:40) Learnings from the conversation
Anatoly Twitter - https://x.com/aeyakovenko
Meow Twitter - https://x.com/weremeow
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
05/23/23 • 62 min
Imran and Qiao enlist the expertise of Mohammed Fouda and Will Robinson for an in-depth exploration of Solana.
No BS crypto insight for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:11) Welcome to Good Game
(01:56) Will's introduction
(02:24) Mohamed’s introduction
(03:15) The Solana ecosystem and why layer 2s are bearish
(04:13) Solana’s greatest filter for bad VCs
(06:17) Solana catalysts
(09:26) The gaming side of Solana
(10:15) Solana games: Aurory
(11:32) Solana games: Star Atlas
(13:25) Solana vs Ethereum games
(14:50) What kind of a game can Solana support?
(18:55) Eclipse & Nitro: Can they do better than the Solana base chain?
(19:45) Mohamed’s perspective on Solana VMs and other layer 2s in the ecosystem
(20:31) How expensive would it be to fork Solana?
(21:04) Is the future going to be layer 2s for everyone?
(24:16) Will: Solana produces 800GB of data per day
(24:56) Mohamed: Dune Analytics managed to archive massive amounts of Solana data
(26:44) Don’t trust, verify!
(29:36) Monolithic chain vs. Modular chain
(36:20) Layer 2s on Solana will happen permissionlessly if needed
(37:06) Vitalik’s “Endgame” blogpost
(40:05) Does Solana have to be more censorable to scale long-term?
(40:35) How much would it cost to blow up Solana right now?
(40:54) Evidence that Solana is not dead
(42:20) Solana perceived as the chain for mainstream users
(47:11) Founders building on Sui prefer Move
(48:05) Chains that still have a fighting chance
(52:11) The Solana Phone
(55:37) What’s holding the crypto metaverse from taking off
(56:17) DeFi on Solana
(1:02:09) How Solana will behave in the next 12 months
Aurory: https://aurory.io/
Star Atlas: https://staratlas.com/
Solana Phone: https://solanamobile.com/
Vitalik's Endgame blog post: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/06...
Mohamed Twitter: https://twitter.com/MohamedFFouda
Will Twitter: https://twitter.com/DangerWillRobin
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
Finding Product Market Fit: How 2 Engineers Built the #1 NFT Marketplace on Solana (Tensor) | EP 17
Good Game
05/16/23 • 82 min
Imran and Qiao invite Tensor cofounders Ilja and Richard to discuss about achieving the right product-market fit in crypto.
No BS crypto insight for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:56) Welcome to Good Game
(01:18) Product-market fit has been a common topic
(01:59) The battle between Tensor and Magic Eden
(02:46) Who is Tensor exactly?
(05:02) The most important episode for early-age founders
(06:13) Where did "product-market fit" come from?
(10:33) Tensor got 15 noes from investors
(11:50) Welcome Richard and Ilja
(15:17) Richard’s background
(16:37) Ilja’s background
(17:37) The greatest edge that Tensor has
(19:02) How did the Tensor guys ascertain their compatibility as cofounders
(23:02) From a Solana hackathon project to Tensor
(32:12) Why they decided to build a pro trading product
(34:30) How Tensor validated their product
(36:42) How Tensor acquired their first 10 to 100 customers
(38:41) The cold start problem
(42:55) How they created their feedback loop
(47:15) What really gets you your product-market fit
(48:25) Tensor’s flat traction and lessons learned from several months of pain
(52:05) The competitive landscape of Magic Eden and why build on Solana?
(56:01) 2 devs, a truckload of coffee, and a wild dream
(56:20) Why did they decide to stay lean
(58:05) Why it’s important to find product-market fit first
(1:02:02) Lessons learned from 50+ rejections from VCs
(1:08:19) How they feel about Solana now and in the near future
(1:12:04) Qiao’s bullish argument for Solana
(1:13:08) Upcoming problems for Ethereum
(1:14:14) How did they feel when they achieved product-market fit
(1:18:23) Quick recap + lessons learned
Richard Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xrwu
Ilja Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ilmoi
Good Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.
Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxyz
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
03/29/23 • 77 min
Top signal for crypto natives.
🧠@lmrankhan 🧠@QwQiao
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:38) Welcome to Good Game!
(02:14) Welcome Amir Haleem, CEO & Founder of Helium
(04:18) Helium's founding story
(08:11) Finding product market fit
(15:38) Hardware iteration challenges
(20:37) How Helium turned to crypto
(25:04) Distributing the hardware
(29:05) What caused Helium to succeed
(31:05) Laying off team through pivot
(34:53) Token design insights
(45:29) How the hotspot network works
(51:20) How far is Helium from ideal decentralized state
(52:40) Why Helium is moving to Solana
(58:52) A network of networks
(1:02:35) Imrian and Qiao's interview debrief
Helium Twitter: @helium
Amir's Twitter: @amirhaleem
Good Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.
Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxy
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
11/12/24 • 46 min
Imran sat down with Raj to talk about the history of Solana.
No BS crypto insights for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:13) Meeting Anatoly and Founding Solana
(07:11) Building the Solana Team
(10:26) Raj's Superpower
(13:42) Persistence & Long-Term Vision
(19:23) "There's always another motivation you can find"
(20:19) Early Days of Solana
(20:46) Recruiting for Solana
(28:49) Persistence in Capitalism and Crypto
(31:21) Lessons on Team Construction
(36:29) The Importance of Team Composition
(38:54) Hiring Founder Archetypes
(41:31) Maintaining Motivation
(42:28) The Vision of Solana
(44:03) Importance of Work-Life Balance
Raj Gokal Twitter/X: https://x.com/rajgokal
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Good Game have?
Good Game currently has 66 episodes available.
What topics does Good Game cover?
The podcast is about Nft, Web3, Venture Capital, Defi, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Crypto, Podcasts, Finance, Technology and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Good Game?
The episode title 'Founder Lessons Learned While Building Blur and Blast with Pacman | EP 46' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Good Game?
The average episode length on Good Game is 75 minutes.
How often are episodes of Good Game released?
Episodes of Good Game are typically released every 12 days, 16 hours.
When was the first episode of Good Game?
The first episode of Good Game was released on Aug 24, 2022.
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