#378: Building a Billion Dollar Payments Company with Ryan Breslow

Dec 2 2022 • 1hr 3m

Show Notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Breslow to discuss Bolt, Love, and the AI Singularity.

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6:48 - Stanford Bitcoin Group
11:21 - Building Bolt
15:08 - Pain points in Bolt
17:25 - Making API for merchants
21:15 - Engaging with VCs as a founder
26:46 - What value to look for in an investor
28:36 - Bitcoin companies are long term game
31:38 - Bolt started as a Bitcoin wallet
35:27 - Optimism
43:03 - AI art and the singularity
47:13 - Getting addicted to tech
53:17 - Ryan's new venture, Love
1:02:25 - Final words of wisdom

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@tetsu

1,000 sats

Dec 3 2022

Trying to understand what this was about. Went to their website, no lightning, no Bitcoin integration, just credit cards. Something something 1-click revolution 🥴And why this dude is talking “CRYPTO CRYPTO CRYPTO”? I understand building a Bitcoin company isn’t easy, but should we instead switch into some ladi-duuh startup business, because VCs gets interested and then maaaaybe in the future we come back to Bitcoin? Is that the way? This episode was straight up black pill Marty. Maybe was needed.

@barnminer

Dec 5 2022

checked webaite too no mention of Bitcoin i could find.

@user3427520383471958

500 sats

Dec 4 2022

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@blokchainboog

500 sats

Dec 3 2022

never heard of bolt until today

@puhbuhruh