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We close out Season 8 with the most ambitious organization we've ever covered on Acquired: Ethereum and it's celebrity wunderkind founder Vitalik Buterin. If you thought Mark Zuckerberg IPO-ing Facebook at $100B by age 27 was something just wait until you hear the story of this high school junior creating $500B (!!) of market cap by the same age — and oh yeah maybe seeding the future dethroning of Facebook Google Amazon and all of big tech in the process. Regardless whether you're a crypto 