Strategy & Operations for web3 (with Uniswap COO)

Sonal ChokshiMary-Catherine Lader

7.30.23

with @mclader @smc90

In this wide-ranging conversation, Uniswap Labs COO Mary Catherine (aka MC) Lader discusses the challenges — and opportunities — of decentralized finance (DeFi); business strategy (& competition) in a world of open source; product vs. protocol innovation… as well as organizational structure & collaboration, hiring, metrics, community engagement, app store policies, decentralization, and much, much more.

The conversation — based on an interview with host Sonal Chokshi and founder Q&A live from a16z crypto Startup School earlier this year — also covers how to make decisions on what to innovate on or not; how to move from  idea and vision to business; and the transition overall from traditional finance/ tradfi. Before joining Uniswap Labs (which contributes to Uniswap, a protocol for trading and automated liquidity provision on Ethereum) — Lader was a managing director at BlackRock (and chief operating officer of the firm’s digital wealth business and head of its climate tech business); was formerly a fintech entrepreneur; and began her career as an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs.

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