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Hugo Stack

President & Co-Founder of Mecone, a fintech startup building infrastructure for perpetual futures on any asset, backed by a16z speedrun.

Nov 11, 2026

10:15
It's a
10:16
real word.
10:16
Okay, okay.
10:17
It is a word that we encounter in the purification of everything.
10:21
you know, is a concept that we love.
10:23
There are a couple of things to dissect with that question.
10:27
And that really highlights the value of an event contract as an unlock for perps.

9 MINS LATER

19:39
So kind of how is your approach to having nothing is manipulation free, but kind of how do you like, is there a way you kind of throw out certain data or how do you kind of approach that?
23:46
benchmark
23:47
yeah um so theoretically any of those practically of course you know you want to have something that is tradable investable uh product market fit practically it would be something like san francisco rent so broad enough to get uh like broad-based appeal um san francisco rent is as someone who has spent time uh you know living in and around san francisco area i can tell you San Francisco rent is a topic of much discussion.
24:17
It's very high at the moment.
24:19
It sure is.
24:21
Yes.
24:21
And so with some pending IPOs too, it's going to get even crazier.
24:26
Anyway, that's a whole nother conversation.

6 MINS LATER

29:59
Is there something you're doing or that someone can be doing to... reduce the likelihood of that happening?

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