This week’s guest is Anthony Scaramucci.

Anthony is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.

Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.

In 2022, Scaramucci was ranked #47 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain. In 2016, he was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award. Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a board member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. He is the author of five books.

Scaramucci served on President Donald J. Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, and in 2017 briefly served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank and White House Communications Director.

Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

We discuss everything from crypto sentiment in the hedge fund space to Algorand, his outlook on crypto in washington, and even his relationship with SBF and FTX. It’s a jam packed hour, folks, so with that, please enjoy my conversation with Anthony.

For more information about Skybridge and Anthony Scaramucci, please visit: https://www.skybridge.com/

You can Follow Anthony Scaramucci on Twitter @scaramucci: https://twitter.com/Scaramucci

Show notes:

[0:06] Introduction

[2:48] When did Scaramucci get the crypto bug

[5:29] How Institutional interest in crypto has grown over time

[9:48] Use cases in crypto

[11:26] How he got into Algorand and the opportunity there

[16:15] What he would do to build awareness for Algorand

[19:36] How SALT Conference came to be

[21:16] Meeting SBF, Partnering with FTX on Crypto Bahamas conference, relationship with SBF

[27:07] Hard to discern fraud

[29:08] Criteria for a potential investment in crypto and has that changed now post-FTX

[31:21] What his team looks for specifically when evaluating crypto projects/companies

[34:31] Anthony's thoughts on what the next wave of crypto/web3/blockchain looks like

[36:21] How does crypto succeed or fail?

[38:03] Crypto conversations in Washington, and how this will affect next Presidential election

[39:28] Not letting cynicism creep in despite all the negative news in crypto

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