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Empire features interviews with top crypto founders to get the real stories that aren’t shared elsewhere. Empire is your look behind the curtain of the crypto industry. We release two episodes per week: guest interviews on Monday and a weekly roundup on Friday.

Spoken has transcripts of 670 Empire episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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Which Businesses Will Survive AI? | Michael Dempsey

October 19, 2026

Jason Yanowitz (0:00)

Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell any investments or products. All right, everyone, very excited about this. Welcome back to Empire. We have Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner of Compound. Welcome to the show.

Michael Dempsey (0:14)

Thanks for having me.

Jason Yanowitz (0:15)

Yeah. Context here is there are, I don't have notifications on for anybody, but I do have a list, a private list on Twitter called Brains. I don't allow myself to have any more than 10 people on that at any given point in time, you're on the list. Wow. So. This is pretty big. Yeah. We'll see if you make it after…

We may talk crypto, but there's just, I feel like you're a, can you maybe explain like what you do? I don't even fully know what you do, but I do like your tweets. So.

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