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How 2020 Unlocked a New Generation of Investors, feat. Jill Carlson
No one would have expected an economic crisis to bring a new generation of investors to the table, but that's exactly what it did.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:47 a.m. Published Dec 23, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
No one would have expected an economic crisis to bring a new generation of investors to the table, but that's exactly what it did.
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Jill Carlson is an investor with Slow Ventures and the co-founder of the Open Money Initiative. In this wide-ranging discussion with NLW she discusses how an economic crisis brought in a new generation of investors and why political moderation will be all the rage in 2021.
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See also: Jill Carlson – Experiments in Crypto’s Governance Lab
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