Mission: DeFi EP 81 - Notional Finance - Terry Woodward
Project Name: Notional Finance
Project URL: https://www.notional.finance/
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotionalFinance
Guest Name: Teddy Woodward
Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/teddywoodward
- Came from the interest rate swaps industry and was unhappy in his role.
- Felt like crypto was exciting and had great options for him from a career perspective.
- Discuss many of the lessons learned starting a project
- The amazing fate like circumstances that led to him meeting his co-founder that also had the same idea
- How Notional works and why it is important
- The makeup of their customers/users
- Insights into big investors and treasuries in Notional
- Where they are taking the protocol
- How they approached marketing and launching a startup when they didn't have experience in startups
- How each of their expertise worked well together.
- Why a mixed team is so important
- How their seed round was incredibly difficult, but their next round was a breeze and why
- Building for crypto natives
This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.
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