
E44: Jordi Alexander: The Man Who Stayed Awake for $24 Million!
About this episode
Jordi Alexander is a father, thinker and former pro poker player who became one of the brightest minds and most respected thought leaders in the crypto space.
Jordi is also the founder & CIO at Selini Capital, one of the most successful market-making and Venture Capital firms in the web3 industry.
In this episode we talk about:
- The dating game and how it relates to game theory
- Jordi’s tough childhood
- Depression and getting out of the vicious cycle
- How ego is the biggest obstacle to success
- The meaning of life
- Imposter syndrome
- Jordi’s craziest poker story
- Addictions and gambling
- The trade: 1M dollar if you can stay awake for 5 days
- Crypto, Dogecoin and Solana
- How Jordi values his time at $50k per conversion
- How AI could threaten the human species
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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Jordi
01:24 Relationship and datings
06:56 Game theorie
09:54 Models & bottles
10:52 Prime age
20:25 The wake-up call
29:21 Talking about ego
33:55 Meaning of life
43:53 Living US to Cyprus
47:33 Imposter syndrome
49:58 Father relationship
52:37 Poker journey
01:05:06 From poker to trading
01:11:35 The Secret trade
01:22:03 How much is your time worth?
01:24:15 Managing big fortunes
01:28:51 Crypto & solana
01:30:47 Value of money
01:45:14 The evolution of Human species and AI Follow Jordi
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