A Conversation with Joel Gheen. Founder & CEO at Baseline Hardware Financing and Raghav Mathur, Co-Founder & COO at Baseline Hardware Investors

The yWhales team speaks with Joel Gheen, Founder & CEO at Baseline Hardware Financing and Raghav Mathur, Co-Founder & COO at Baseline Hardware Investors. They discuss their company Space Protocol, a growth stage investment fund for companies who offer B2B solutions with a hardware component and who are facing sales friction due to the capital requirements associated with hardware. 

About Guests

Joel Gheen began his career as a financier and developed Space Protocol in 2018 with Raghav Mathur, after a multitude of experiences with startups and financial consulting. They birthed Space Protocol from a place of frustration in the space and wanted to move to blockchain to provide a novel decentralized protocol by which revenue streams of hard assets can be bound into utility NFTs which are then fractionalized and aggregated into a stable store of value.

You’ll learn about:

• Joel’s background
• Raghav’s background
• Assumptions made in DeFi
• Staking pools
• The asset tokenization process
• Space Protocol road map
• “Pay As You Go”
• The future of Space Protocol

Resources: 

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

Connect with Raghav: Email

Connect with Joel: Email

Connect with Space Protocol: LinkedIn |  Twitter | Telegram | Instagram | Facebook | Discord

Timestamps

[2:33] Joel’s background 

[6:35] Raghav’s background

[11:00] Space Protocol Elevator Pitch

[14:33] Balance sheet as a service

[16:36] Democratize the marketplace

[23:00] Regulation

[27:32] Asset owners

[31:57] The Roadmap

[36:29] EIP 

[38:22] Decentralized team

[44:20] The onboarding process

[50:00] The plan to scale

[57:57] The ideal size

[1:00:06] What is exciting in Web3

 

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.