On a Tangent #1: How We 4x'd Our Portfolio in the First Year - Darryl Wang and Jason Choi

The Blockcrunch Podcast

Welcome to 'On a Tangent' episode 1 , a special segment of Blockcrunch!

Jason and Darryl, prop investors at Tangent, sit down to discuss:

- How Tangent began

- Tangent’s investment strategies that led to top percentile returns since inception

- Biggest wins and losses

- Trading vs venture investing

- How to succeed as an Analyst

And much, much more

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Tangent is a private holdings company managing personal assets and is not a licensed investment advisor nor does it manage or accept any external capital. Nothing discussed is a solicitation for investment and is for entertainment purposes only.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:19) What is Tangent Ventures?

(08:22) What is an ‘evergreen portfolio’

(10:09) Angel, Venture, LP, and Liquid investing

(10:00) Employee-owned

(13:59) Crypto investment categories

(16:00) NFT investing strategy

(18:30) Coordination networks

(21:02) Tangent’s thesis categorization

(21:54) Tangent’s big wins

(27:10) Trading vs venture execution

(29:49) Stacks: Bitcoin L2 & Ronin: Web3 Gaming

(35:38) ETH/BTC

(40:46) Investing mistakes

(47:15) Investment process & team structure

(1:03:03) ETH ETF implications

(1:10:15) BTC thesis

(1:14:19) Arweave thesis

(1:21:20) Q&A

(1:31:34) Darryl’s biggest lose in crypto

(1:33:27) Succeeding as an Analyst

(1:38:20) Continuing to learn

(1:43:12) Outro

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Jason Choi’s Twitter:

https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi

Darryl Wang's Twitter:

https://x.com/0xWangarian

Blockcrunch Twitter:

https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch

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