Live at Permissionless with Jessica Billingsley

In this episode, the yWhales team reports from the Permissionless Conference and Expo in Palm Beach, Florida. Jessica Billingsley, Founder, CEO & Board Chair at Akerna Corp, joins Jay Steinback to reflect on the topics discussed at the conference. They share the road blocks they've seen in Web3 and their predictions to where Web3 is heading.

 

About Guests

Jessica Billingsley has been running tech companies since she was 22 and grew up with entrepreneurial parents. She graduated college at the end of the dot com boom. She first heard about bitcoin in 2012 and opened up a Coinbase account. As she began to understand the difference between crypto and blockchain she invested in a cannabis company. After investing the company asked her to pick the software and in response she invented Akerna. 

 

Resources: 

Connect with Jessica Billingsley: LinkedIn | Website 

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

Permissionless: Website

 

Timestamps

[00:56] Reflections from the conference

[12:52] Investment stories

[20:23] What’s next?

[22:47] Problems to work out

[29:29] Technologies and utilities to get people interested

[36:36] Evaluating investments

[39:15] Predictions

 

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.