Building a Company in a Crypto Bear Market with Sadie Raney on the FTX Podcast

Sadie Raney

Published May 7, 202143 min

Thanks to Tristan Yver from FTX for hosting Makara Co-Founder Sadie Raney. In this 43 minute episode, we covered:

1. Building a crypto company in a bear market 2. Creating a more financially inclusive world through crypto 3. Makara, first SEC-registered crypto robo-advisor

On reflecting about the past couple of years building crypto businesses, Sadie said “It’s really tempting when you’re seeing stuff move around really quickly to be more aggressive and be a lot higher risk but in the long run it’s worked out for us to stick to our strategies.”

Authored By

Sadie Raney

Sadie previously served as Controller for Blue Box pre and post acquisition by IBM. She is part of the Female Founders Alliance and is a mentor for the Barcelona Technology Transfer Group. Sadie also serves on the board for Veriledger and is a member of the Strix Leviathan Nest Fund Investment Committee. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine and her MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, during which she attended the IE Business School in Madrid for an International MBA exchange. Sadie has two children, lives in Spain half of the year, and is an avid reader and traveler.