We sit down with Tieshun Roquerre, founder of https://namebase.io, and talk about censorship-resistant domain names. Follow Tieshun: Web: https://tieshunroquerre.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TieshunR LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tieshun-roquerre-06181659 Timestamps: 0:00 How to pronounce Tieshun 0:49 Namebase, the future of domain names, & dropping out of highschool 11:04 Building Namebase & Handshake 18:52 What is Handshake & Decentralizing DNS 22:00 Deciding to build an application that will change the domain game 26:25 Expectations on the protocol launch 29:27 Meditation and exercise made the difference 34:17 Watching YouTube videos at 3.5X speed? 36:06 Elon Musk microchipping the world 39:05 Becoming a political target as a tech founder 41:49 San Francisco being a founder's heaven and the impact Corona had on it 46:29 Unplanned conversations - Serendipity 53:30 Dealing with Corona virus and things going back as they were before 55:58 Path dependence simplified 57:20 Feeling a need to have an opinion on something 59:12 Non-work time & the cost of being a tech founder 1:04:37 The mental game of being persistent 1:08:52 Tieshun's meditation type