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Ahmed is in San Francisco for his first ever visit! As well as attending the San Francisco Blockchain Week, Ahmed set some time to explore a bit of SF and also spent time interviewing one of the pioneers of blockchain technology in SF; Matthew Liu from Origin Protocol. In this episode, the pair discuss: * Matt’s experience and key lessons as a product manager at Youtube in its early days * Matt’s ups and downs in entrepreneurship * What it takes to be a real entrepreneur * Why Origin is building a platform for decentralised marketplaces * How incentivisation functions in Origin * Real practical use cases * Differences in the business models between open sourcing your tech (tokens) vs keeping it private (equity) * Culture and personality around delivering impact They also discuss the race to digital supremacy between the U.S. and China! If you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subsc