Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran, CEO of Router Protocol

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran, CEO of Router Protocol, an infrastructure layer enabling communication between blockchains. After graduating from MIT with an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, Ramani worked at Deloitte, Moody’s, and Schlumberger before moving into crypto in 2014. He built and ran Asia’s earliest crypto fund, returning 4x. Built Fordex - the world’s first stablecoin DEX and Qume, an institutional-grade crypto exchange. He also launched Asia’s first crypto-index token before founding Router Protocol which is solving the problem of blockchain interoperability.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction: Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran, CEO of Router Protocol
• 0:59 Why you started Router Protocol?
• 2:39 Why Polygon?
• 5:29 What is Router Protocol?
• 7:18 How bridges works
• 12:39 What the landscape looks like?
• 13:59 Where we are today in Crypto Space?
• 23:03 Theme for the next bull market
• 27:06 People's thinking about buying an investment
• 31:21 The Future of Building Router
• 36:32 What do you think is the biggest challenge today in actual coins and tokens?
• 39:45 Regulatory Policy
• 43:31 The Network State by Balaji S. Srinivasan
• 48:12 "If all banks in the US stopped allowing Bitcoin transfers to exchanges, Bitcoin's still gonna exist" - Mike