Achieving perfect founder-market fit | Diogo Monica, Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital

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Few others’ experiences and career path have left them so destined to found their business, with Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon coining “perfect founder-market fit” to describe him, than this week’s guest, Diogo Monica, Co-Founder of Anchorage Digital.

With a resume boasting a PhD in Network Security, working as an early employee at Square, and rounding out his skill-set at Docker, Diogo’s rise to the top has been meteoric.

Diogo is now in charge of a leading crypto custodial player that has raised upwards of $450m from the likes of KKR, A16Z, Visa, PayPal and Goldman Sachs. On a pathway to supporting 20% of the world’s economy in the next 5-10 years, Anchorage is primed to be one of the most influential tech leaders of this generation, taking on 200-year-old incumbents in the likes of JP Morgan and BNY Mellon.

Having already achieved incredible success, and clearly with so much more to come, maybe, just maybe, dreams of San Diogo will become a reality!

A truly amazing episode, with one of the most impressive and likable guests to date.

[ 0:00 - 4:57 ] San Diogo, Pirate Custody & helping institutions build crypto platforms

[ 4:58 - 8:39 ] Size & Scale of Anchorage and the Neumann Flow

[ 8:39 - 12:11 ] AngelList and StableCoins

[ 12:11 - 17:21 ] Angel Investing

[ 17:22 - 24:59 ] Growing up in Portugal, computing superpowers & making video games

[ 24:59 - 31:34 ] PhDs & Doctors decide dinners

[ 31:34 - 36:50 ] Square & working with Jack Dorsey

[ 36:51 - 41:08 ] Quick-fire round, Diogo’s worldview and mantra

[ 41:09 - 47:29 ] Diogo’s Mana, coffee and reading in the rain in Seattle

[ 47:30 - 53:40 ] The Nathan story = The Anchorage Story, Docker and founding

[ 53:41 - 57:40 ] Anchorage projections: supporting 20% of the world’s economy

[ 57:41 - 1:00:55 ] AI, morality and bear markets