Ep. 14: Crypto CEO Stephen Tse on community-development, culture-building, nongreedy parenting

<p><span data-story-id="story_75e53c0ea6feb23b828597e45c77d6dd" data-room-id="room_79ba3b18bdc34e79d8ed072ae8fb6c5d" data-timestamp="1626407074806" data-text= "Today I'm interviewing my friend Stephen Tse. He is the founder and CEO of a Blockchain project named Harmony. For those new to Crypto and Blockchain, Harmony is a protocol that allows trustless smart contracts. Think of it as a new technology stack on the internet that allows users of computer programs to verify the results by themselves, instead of trusting whoever is serving these programs to the users. At the time of recording, Harmony ranks top 100 in terms of market capitalization for all Cryptos. Stephen also runs a weekly get-together for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Participants are mostly Crypto-centric founders, although not exclusively so. The organization is run a bit like a Christian fellowship, except that people don't get up and take turns to describe their relationship with God. Instead, they take turns to talk about their journey in entrepreneurship. And instead of reading scriptures when they get together, they pitch their businesses, ask for help and share best practices as well as past failures in business. Every time I leave one of these events, I feel thoroughly rejuvenated, and this is all thanks to Steven's leadership. He has a way of making sure everyone feels included and inspired at these events. And I believe he applies this to the way he runs his organization. Stephen and I covered a lot of ground in our chat today. We talked about him being raised on a pig farm in Hong Kong, where he had a free-spirited childhood, how he decided to start this weekly entrepreneurial get-together and why he felt it was important for him to be this extreme matchmaker for these events, and how he saw culture building for startups. He was very open about his past struggles with aimlessness in his career and bumpy personal relationships. We covered how he saw China's rise in its startup scene from the lens of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and l