Episode · This Week in Startups · 2025-02-19

Books mentioned on Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086

2 books · With Coffeezilla (Stephen Findeisen) · Listen · Watch on YouTube

In today's episode: Jason and Alex break down one of the craziest crypto stories yet—a $100M meme coin meltdown, insider trading, and Argentina's president caught in the middle.

Jason Calacanis discussed Flash Boys by Michael Lewis and Molly's Game by Molly Bloom.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Flash Boys

   Michael Lewis · at 14:35

   Flash Boys by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book that exposes the mechanics of high-frequency trading on Wall Street through the efforts of Brad Katsuyama and a group of rebel investors trying to reform financial markets.

   Discussed

   “but in crypto what they're doing is when these meme coins come out people have created there's an equivalent of this in the stock market people there was a book flash Traders where people were building high speed high frequency trading”

   Jason Calacanis Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086 2025-02-19 Listen at 14:35

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2. 

   Molly's Game

   Molly Bloom · at 48:24

   Discussed

   “and um Toby that are chronicled in uh Molly's game I had dinner with Molly two years ago A friend brought her to a dinner I was having a Carbone in Miami”

   Jason Calacanis Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086 2025-02-19 Listen at 48:24

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible