Скачать или смотреть He's Building The Next Space Station For $1 Billion - EP 38 Jed McCaleb

Jed McCaleb helped build the internet’s underground and then its financial future. From the wild early days of peer-to-peer file sharing and eDonkey to creating Mt. Gox—the first major Bitcoin exchange—and later Ripple and Stellar, McCaleb has quietly shaped how information and money move online. In this episode, he walks through the strange, law-skirting birth of file sharing, the chaos of early crypto, and what it’s like to accidentally create a billion-dollar industry and then walk away from it.

Today McCaleb is pouring that fortune into space, AI, and the long-term survival of humankind. We talk about why he’s funding brain-computer interfaces, what went wrong at Mt. Gox, why he thinks fusing people and machines is inevitable, and how his new company Vast plans to build the first privately operated space station.

Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos    / @corememoryvideos  

Check out our podcasts    / @corememorypodcast  
https://www.corememory.com/podcast

Find Ashlee Vance at
www.corememory.com
  / ashlee.vance  
https://x.com/ashleevance

Chapters
00:00 – Intro
03:34 – Growing up in rural Arkansas
05:46 – Discovering computers and physics
08:06 – Building a Napster competitor
10:02 – Fighting the music industry
12:53 – Lessons from the eDonkey lawsuits
14:40 – From gaming to Bitcoin
16:20 – How Mt. Gox was born
18:54 – Handing Mt. Gox to Mark Karpelès
20:44 – Ripple and early crypto success
27:45 – Investing in AI and space
30:49 – Backing OpenAI as a nonprofit
36:31 – Fusing humans and AI
40:13 – Why he funds risky tech
44:41 – Building Vast Space station
57:55 – The future of humanity in orbit