Chatting about MEOW with Founder and CEO Brandon Arvanaghi

In this episode, the yWhales team speak with Brandon Arvanaghi, Founder and CEO of MEOW. Brandon explains how MEOW provides every company compliant, easy access to potential crypto market yields, USDC, staking, and buy/sell for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more. He provides a walkthrough of how onboarding works. He also shares his thoughts on the current state of Web3.

 

About Guests

Brandon Arvanaghi is CEO and co-founder of Meow, which provides compliant, cash-based access to crypto market yields for corporate treasuries. Previously, he was Chief Security Officer at Layer1, a U.S.-based Bitcoin mining company. Before Layer1, Brandon was an early Security Engineer at Gemini, where he specialized in cryptocurrency custody, hardware security modules (HSMs), trusted platform modules (TPMs), and smart card programming. He also co-authored the Gemini dollar, the world’s first regulated stablecoin. Prior to Gemini, Brandon was a Consultant at Mandiant, a FireEye company. At Mandiant, he conducted red teaming, penetration testing, digital forensics, and reverse engineering.

 

You’ll learn about:

• How Meow provides every company compliant, easy access to potential crypto market yields, USDC, staking, and buy/sell for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more
• How Meow works with a walk through of the onboarding
• Brandon’s thoughts on the current state of Web3

 

Resources: 

Connect with Brandon Arvanaghi: LinkedIn | Medium | Twitter | Website  

Connect with yWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter | LinkedIn

MEOW: Website | LinkedIn | Twitter

 

Timestamps

[01:24] Background in Gemini

[04:05] Look back on crypto 

[05:58] Web3 & crypto adoption and regulation

[10:21] About Meow and real use cases

[13:31] The challenge of wallets

[14:49] Mainstream adoption & how Meow works

[19:51] On meme coins & deFi self regulation

[24:47] On the Solend protocol

[27:15] Meow adoption and feedback

[29:28] Clearing up misconceptions

[30:34] Matching inflation and increasing confidence in crypto

[35:11] The future of one currency

[37:20]  Walk through Meow onboarding 

[41:22] Alpha drop and plans for the future

[42:24] Key metrics technology needs for adoption

[45:03] How to contact Brandon

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.