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DevNTellEP. 201 - Go-To-Market for Crypto Startups: How Web3 Teams Acquire Users In this week's episode of DevNTell we are joined by Mac Budkowski who is an experienced founder and web3 startup consultant. From working on communications projects with companies like Intel, IKEA, Pfizer, PepsiCo, and MasterCard to helping web3 companies grow in the Ethereum ecosystem, Mac brings a wealth of experience in the startup scene. Viewers of this DevNTell will get to meet Mac and learn about go-to-market strategies to help you find users for your product. — TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Introduction (01:12) Meet Mac Budkowski: Founder and Web3 Consultant (02:30) Ea...
2026-01-0743 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersDistribution Advantage: how to set up GTM for your crypto product (without bs)Blog post version: https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/crypto-gtm***If your crypto product is solid but growth feels slow, this episode gives you the clarity you need. It breaks down how teams like Aave, Uniswap, Polymarket and others actually unlocked their early traction and what you can learn from their playbooks. You will hear the patterns behind channels that work, how to pick a segment that gives you an edge, and why even great products do not spread on their own.If you are building in crypto and want practical guidance instead...
2025-12-231h 13
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersWe are back (in a new form)Good to be back and happy to chat with you. Learn more and book a slot here: https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/lets-chat
2025-12-0106 min
Ethfinance EVMavericks Weekly Doots Livestream#89 Happy Hour - Mac - Kiwi News December 6th 2024The Weekly Doots live stream is all about showcasing the best of the week from the Ethfinance Community on Reddit. Name of Project: Kiwi News Name of Guest (s): Mac Budkowski Website: kiwinews.xyz Tagline for the Project: Ethereum Hacker News Big thanks to Tricky Troll for capturing and curating each days' doots, and The A Word for Curating this beloved weekly list. As always, if you know someone who wants a piece of this action, send em our way. Let's jump right in. 📢https://discord.gg/EVMavericks
2024-12-061h 21DevNTellEP 122. Kiwi News: Decentralized HackerNews Focused on Crypto TechIn this week's episode of DevNTell, we are joined by Kiwi News co-founders Mac Budkowski and Tim Daub. Kiwi News is a decentralized HackerNews focused on crypto tech, products and culture.
Viewers of this DevNTell will learn how Kiwi News works, how they built the community, and how they used the P2P architecture to keep the protocol decentralized.
2024-10-0838 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#48: Henri Stern, Co-Founder & CEO @ Privy | How they built a tool that brings web2-caliber UX to web3 productsHenri is an ex-research scientist at Protocol Labs. He Co-Founded Privy, which provides web3 projects such as Friend.tech, t2 & Shibuya with seamless onboarding & embedded wallets.
In this episode, we dive into the early MVPs of Privy, learn how it works under the hood, how they managed to design such as smooth UX & more.
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2023-10-271h 09
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#47: Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO @ Collab.Land | How they built a community management tool used by over 50,000 communitiesCollab.Land is a tool for managing web3 communities and bridging them to Discord and Telegram. It has already been used by 50k+ communities and 8M+ wallets.
Today we’re talking with Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO of Collab.Land, who shares their project’s story.
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00:00 Teaser about Collab.Land's app marketplace
00:56 Intr...
2023-08-241h 00Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersSupport Web3 Talks via Gitcoin grant + info about the new episodeOur Gitcoin Grants page: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e-322
2023-08-2200 minWeb3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersWe are back (+ why there were no episodes for some time)Web3 Talks is back!
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Library of web3 startup lessons:
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2023-08-0703 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#46: Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO @ Mailchain | How they built a privacy-first web3 e-mail protocol that lets you communicate between different blockchainsMailchain is basically a web3 email. It provides a web app that lets you send your emails as if you used Gmail or Hotmail. But you send your emails via your wallet, ENS, Lens profile, and other identities you may use. Thanks to that and end-to-end encryption, your emails are 100% private.
Today we’re talking with Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO of Mailchain, who shares their project’s story.
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2023-05-011h 02
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#45: Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora | How they built one of the top NFT platforms used by Coinbase, Gucci, Grimes & thousands of creatorsZora is one of the most popular web3 tools, used by the biggest creators in the NFT space. What were its early days? How they acquired their first users? How have they organized the Base campaign that generated 700,000+ mints?
This and much more in our conversation with Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora.
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2023-04-191h 05
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#44: Matt Galligan, Co-Founder & President @ XMTP | Building a web3 native messaging protocol that lets apps integrate DMs, alerts, and announcementsXMTP is one of the leading web3 messaging protocols. What were the early days of this project? What web3 native features they developed How they built a developer community around their protocol? How did they start handling DMs on Lens?
This and much more in our conversation with Matt Galligan, Co-Founder & President @ XMTP.
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2023-04-1459 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#43: Julien Genestoux, Founder & CEO @ Unlock Protocol | From the first NFT memberships tool in 2018 to a protocol that’s being used by hundreds of projects for ticketing, token-gating & subscriptionJulien has been building tools for membership NFTs since 2018, long before the NFT boom. What were the early days of the NFT market? How dogfooding helped them to acquire their first users? How they organized ticketing with Unlock for EthCC? What they've learned from running a DAO program?
This and more in our conversation with Julien Genestoux, Founder & CEO @ Unlock Protocol.
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2023-04-0454 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#42: Stefan George, Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis | The OG team, which created Safe & CowSwap and has been building on Ethereum since 2014, working on the #2 most decentralized chain in the spaceStefan George is one of the most OG builders in the space. How was it building on Ethereum in 2014? Why they pivoted from their initial idea? How an ICO inspired them to build Safe? Why it later transformed into a DAO? How Gnosis Chain became the #2 most decentralized chain in the space? And why you used it without even knowing it?
This and more in our conversation with Stefan George, Co-Founder & CTO of Gnosis.
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2023-03-271h 04
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#41: Nat Emodi, Co-Founder & CEO @ Highlight | Building a tool that lets creators easily launch NFT collections and design token-gated experiences on their websitesANNOUNCEMENTS:
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:44 Info about the EpicWeb3 conference
1:50 3 small announcements
3:18 Nat's lessons from working at Square & DoorDash and why...
2023-03-1551 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersGenesis Talk - Open EditionMint "Genesis Talk" here:
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2023-03-0201 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#40: Alex Salnikov, Co-Founder & CSO @ Rarible | From a napkin MVP in 2019 to one of the leading community-centric NFT marketplaces & protocolsAlex has been building Rarible since 2019, when most people haven't even heard about NFTs. What were the industry's early days? Why slick design helped them to acquire the first users? How did issuing a token change how they operate (and why they weren't ready for that)? How do they plan to compete in a market dominated by OpenSea, Blur & LooksRare? Relax and listen to our in-depth conversation.
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2023-02-2450 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#39: Ayush Ranjan, Co-Founder & CEO @ Huddle01 | From a hackathon idea to the leading web3 audio & video communication toolkitHuddle01 quickly became the leading web3 audio/video communication toolkit. How it all started? What helped them acquire 16k+ users? Why they're so excited about Stage 3 of their development plans? Ayush Ranjan, Co-Founder & CEO of Huddle01, shares a deep backstage perspective of their company.
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2023-02-1752 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#38: Colin Armstrong, Founder @ Paragraph | How they combined web2 & web3 features to create a Substack alternative that’s already used by over 5k creatorsColin Armstrong has been in crypto since 2011 and has spent years working at Coinbase and Google. He built Paragraph to create a more neutral and web3-friendly alternative to Substack. The project has already amassed 5k+ creators and 100k+ subscribers, and Colin shares how they made it happen.
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2023-01-2459 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#37: Olly Wilson, Co-Founder @ SimpleHash | Building a multichain NFT API that’s used by projects such as Phantom & RainbowSimpleHash is one of the most powerful NFT APIs in the space. It's being used by wallets, portfolio trackers & web3 games. Olly Wilson came to the pod to share the backstage perspective of their ultra fast growth.
Timestamps:
0:38
What is SimpleHash
1:39
How their Co-Founder got tired of building back-end infra for an NFT project and decided to start SimpleHash
2:47
Why is indexing NFTs across many chains so hard?
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How being in YC helped them to acquire first users
2023-01-1632 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#36: Gilbert Leung, Co-Founder @ 0xFrens | From working in Google to building a tool that leverages the strengths of web3 to develop deeper connections in online communities0xFrens is a matchmaking tool used by web3 communities such as: Developer DAO, Jericho & Skylab. Gilbert - Co-Founder of the project - spent almost a decade at Google, then started his social podcasting startup, and in 2022, he started working on 0xFrens with the rest of the AGMI team.
0:37 What’s 0xFrens, and how it helps communities to build relationships between members
1:40 How talking with communities & DAOs inspired them to start 0xFrens
4:30 What has Gilbert been doing at Google for almost ten years & what was his previous social podcasting startup about...
2022-12-2141 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#35: Josef, Co-Founder @ PWN | How a bank denying him a mortgage inspired them to build a P2P lending platform where you can use any token as collateralPWN is a decentralized pawnshop where you can use any tokens as collateral. But it’s just the beginning. Their ultimate goal is to provide crypto loans for decades so that you will never need to sell your crypto. I spoke with Josef, PWN’s Co-Founder, who shared their story, challenges & growth strategies.
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0:38 PWN as a decentralized pawnshop
1:35 How not being able to get a mortgage & risk of DeFi liquidations inspired Josef to start PWN
9:30 Why they decided to give more protection to borrowers by not baking up loan...
2022-12-1240 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#34: Evgeny Yurtaev, Co-Founder & CEO @ Zerion | How building in DeFi since 2016 led to launching a wallet that generated 80k+ active users in less than 6 monthsZerion is one of the OG crypto companies, operating since 2016. It started as a tool to do fundraising through token sales. Then it transformed into a DeFi exploration tool where you could track & invest in different assets. Then it expanded into NFTs & other web3 assets. And a few months ago, they also joined the wallet space and already got 80k+ users.
What inspired them to start? Why they made so many pivots? And why they're confident that they can compete in a hard wallet space? I spoke with Evgeny, Zerion's Co-Founder, who shared the backstage perspective of t...
2022-12-0148 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#33: Ivan Liljeqvist, Co-Founder @ Moralis | From 0 to 90+ employees in less than 2 years - how they've grown web3 infra businessMoralis joined a pretty crowded web3 infra market in 2020, and it's already become an important player serving projects such as MetaMask and Polygon. How did they do it? I talk with Ivan, Moralis Co-Founder, who shares the backstage perspective of their last 2 years.
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0:38 Who is Ivan & Moralis, and what got him interested in blockchain
3:52 How their web2 experience inspired them...
2022-11-2247 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersMac Budkowski, Host @ Web3 Talks | How to explain what your web3 product does and convince users to try it [Builder’s Guide]Hey everyone, today I got the info about something I've been working on for a long time.
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2022-11-1303 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#32: Dan Romero, Co-Founder @ Farcaster | How two Coinbase early employees designed one of the most thriving web3 social networks: product decisions,tech trade-offs & community building tacticsDan Romero was employee #20 at Coinbase. After helping to build the company for 5 years, he left Coinbase in 2019 to build an alternative to Twitter with his Coinbase colleague, Varun Srinivasan. This idea transformed into Farcaster - a web3 social network that has become a go-to place for the crypto community in the last few months.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:38 What is Farcaster
1:20 How Dan Romero became employee #20 at Coinbase and what he learned about crypto, and why he left in 2019
4:32 Why RSS lost and how Farcaster started as RSS+
6:56 Farcaster as a T...
2022-10-2559 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#31: Ouriel Ohayon, Co-Founder @ ZenGo | How they built an MPC wallet to get rid of seed phrases and what they did to acquire over 700k usersZenGo has been the pioneer in MPC research and the most popular consumer MPC wallet in the world. Ouriel shares the backstage perspective of their early days, acquiring the first users, their product strategy, ClearSign wallet firewall, and marketing activities that led to over 700k users (which is a lot for a wallet!).
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0:37 Who’s Ouriel Ohayon and why ZenGo is special
1:03 How Ouriel tr...
2022-10-181h 08
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#30: Leighton, Co-Founder @ PoolTogether | The story behind the OG DeFi protocol which has distributed over $5 million to depositors as a reward for saving moneyIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
PoolTogether is known as the #1 DeFi protocol that encourages saving. Depositors participate in a lottery-like process where their deposited money can win prizes. But contrary to a lottery - even if they don't win, they keep their money. The luckiest winner ever deposited $73 and won over $43k, reaching a 589X return.
How it's possible? How Leighton came up with the idea? How was PoolTogether built, how they got...
2022-10-1044 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#29: Haardik, Co-Founder @ LearnWeb3 | From teaching a friend about web3 development to a developers community with over 50k studentsIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
LearnWeb3 in 9 months became one of the most popular places to become a web3 developer for free. In this episode, Haardik tells me about its beginnings, crazy growth, building a 50k+ members community & more.
Timestamps:
1:15 How Haardik feels running a 50k+ students course & how it all started
2:15 Does the bear market impact people’s interest in learning web3 development
3:24 How LearnWeb3 started in...
2022-09-2856 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the BuildersQuick message to all our listeners about Gitcoin GrantWe are currently raising a Gitcoin Grant. If you'd like to support the podcast, please Like/Retweet/Donate via our link:
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2022-09-2100 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#28: Pedro Gomes, Co-Founder @ WalletConnect | From wallet improvement idea back in 2018 to one of the most omnipresent web3 communications protocolsIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
WalletConnect is one of the most omnipresent protocols in the web3 space. It’s used by Uniswap, OpenSea, Instagram & 450+ other apps. Today we welcome Pedro Gomes, Co-Founder of WalletConnect, who tells us about the protocol’s history, presence, and future.
1:27 How Pedro ended up in crypto thanks to his fintech experience
3:47 Why MetaMask was revolutionary and how Pedro got inspired to bet on the...
2022-09-1941 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#27: realfakepicnic & sockdrawermoney, Co-Founders @ Code4rena | Managing a DAO that runs smart contract audit contests for projects such as OpenSea, ENS, Lens, NounsDAO & SushiSwapCode4rena is a project that disrupts the way web3 companies do smart contract audits. Their community-driven approach made them so well-known in the space that OpenSea ran a $1,000,000 security audit contest on their platform. How does their project work? How it started? And how do they grow it? Two out of five Code4rena Co-Founders came to the pod to answer all these questions.
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2022-08-241h 08
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#26: BORED, Co-Founder @ Bored Box | Building a blockchain gaming community by curating NFT assets from top games and helping people discover the coolest web3 gamesWe welcome Twitter anon legend - Bored Elon Musk - who shares his blockchain/web3 gaming expertise and gives a backstage perspective on his new project - BoredBox.
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TIMESTAMPS:
2:38 How Hyperloop inspired him to start a Bored Elon Musk account
4:41 How money transfers & running an anon account got him into crypto
7:35 What BoredBox is and how it was...
2022-08-1648 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#25: Seb Audet, Co-Founder @ Zapper.fi | How Zapper evolved from a DeFi degens' product into a web3 exploration tool with over 1 million usersZapper is one of the most popular crypto apps. And on Thursday, they published the v2, which transformed Zapper from a portfolio tracker into a web3 exploration tool. I talk with Seb about their early days, management & growth tactics, v2, and... art.
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1:57 How Seb got disillusioned with finance and started building, which led him to Ethereum, DeFi, and the...
2022-07-2353 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#24: Anton Bernstein, Co-Founder @ Pocket Worlds | How they built and grew Metaverse apps with over 3 Million Monthly Active UsersIf you're a Metaverse skeptic, this episode might change your mind. I talked with Anton, whose apps have built metaverse since 2016, so long before this word became popular. And they make $30M/year. How it's possible? Check out the episode!
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0:37 Intro
1:27 Quick history of Pocketworlds and HighRise
2:30 How did Anton get into web3, and why did...
2022-07-1858 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#23: Dennison Bertram, Co-Founder @ Tally.xyz | Lessons on DAOs from the Co-Founder of the DAO governance tool used by Uniswap, Compound & PoolTogetherDennison has been in crypto for over 10 years. He has been heavily involved in DAOs before most people even heard about them. In this episode, he shares lessons from seeing 100s of these organizations.
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TIMESTAMPS:
1:00 How Dennison got into crypto in 2011, why he got hooked, and what he built
4:40 Why he focused on governance and built Tally: From Magic Internet Mo...
2022-07-0452 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#22: Chris Whinfrey, Founder @ Hop Protocol | A bridge that moved over $2.4B worth of tokens between Ethereum & L2s to improve the blockchains' UXIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
HopExchange is the leading bridge between Ethereum & L2s. Chris shares the story behind the project, how they designed their airdrop and why they decided to give the community so much power.
Timestamps:
1:39 How Chris ended up in crypto and why Ethereum inspired him to build
3:20 The story behind the HopExchange: Auditing, DeFi Summer, and bet on L2
8:29 How they...
2022-06-2238 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#21: Geoist & Levertz, Founders @ IDRiss | Decentralized address book to onboard the next billion users to cryptoJust like ENS lets people link their wallet addresses to .eth domains, IDrIss lets people link their wallet addresses to their phone numbers, e-mails & Twitter handles. But it's only the tip of the iceberg!
Timestamps:
1:35 How they ended in crypto space
3:50 What’s the story & vision behind IDRiss
7:30 Five things that make them different from Ethereum Name Service
13:21 What happens when someone hacks your e-mail address or Twitter account linked to your wallet via IDriss
14:29 How they acquired their first users and what worked we...
2022-06-1646 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#20: Auston Bunsen, Co-Founder @ QuickNode | Building blockchain infrastructure that operates at the scale of Google SearchIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
How Auston Bunsen sold his TV for 2.5 BTC? Why did 2017 ICOs inspire them to start QuickNode? How he accidentally made Vitalik think that he broke Etheruem Virtual Machine? And why QuickNode doesn’t care about the bear market?
This - and much more - has been shared in our Ep. 20.
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2022-06-0228 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#19: Rex Hygate, Founder @ DeFi Safety | Adding transparency to DeFi security practices by a company that already reviewed 200+ DeFi projectsIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
DeFi Safety helps investors understand the risks of DeFi projects. Rex tells us about i.a. the company's founding story, review process, and the way they get new clients & employees.
1:30 How Rex learned about Ethereum via Reddit & got involved thanks to a hackathon
4:30 Differences between his corporate experiences and web3
7:05 How DeFi Safety started and why they share their reports for f...
2022-05-1640 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#18: Harsh Rajat, Founder @ EPNS | Building a multichain web3 communication protocol that’s pushing notifications for ENS, Uniswap, dYdX, Coindesk, Snapshot & moreIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
How EPNS solved the chicken-egg growth problem and acquired their first 44k users? What were the biggest tech challenges & dead-end streets so far and how EPNS tackled them? And what strange outfit have people worn for a VIP crypto dinner?
This, and much more, has been covered by Harsh Rajat, Founder of EPNS in this episode.
Timestamps:
1:20 How he got t...
2022-05-0845 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#17: x0r, Founder @ MEV Army | Teaching people about the tech side of crypto through an NFT-gated communityIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
x0r is an NFT artist, coder & member of the investing team @ a16z. He shares: how to really learn how blockchains work? Why did he let devs find out the seed phrase of one of his wallets? What lessons had he drawn from his NFT drops? And how his perspective on crypto has been impacted by being a magician?
2022-05-0348 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#16: Ayyan Rahman, Co-Founder @ Gateway | Helping contributors onboard to DAOs & preparing for the Future of WorkIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
Why becoming a DAO contributor is so hard, and what can DAOs do about it? How to make web3 hiring more meritocratic? And how to test your product with big DAOs such as Bankless, Aave & Olympus and build it with them, not for them?
In this Episode, Ayyan Rahman, Co-Founder of Gateway, tells us how they help DAOs to solve these problems & why they plan to build a...
2022-04-1851 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#15: Gil Hildebrand, Founder @ Gilded | Helping crypto businesses to accept payments, pay team members, and deliver on financial reporting requirementsHow has an idea in a New Orleans meetup turned into a product supporting the financial operations of over 120 crypto businesses? Why do they use web2 acquisition strategies? And how did they get the support of one of the world's biggest CPA organizations? This - and much more - has been covered in this episode.
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2022-04-1144 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#14: Raj & Atomic, Meme Lords @ Meme DAO | Behind the scenes of a DAO that makes memes for projects such as Polygon, Graph & CoinbaseIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
01:20 What is MemeDAO
1:55 How Raj got into web3 via crypto trading & Atomic treated it as an experiment despite his initial skepticism
04:54 How Raj found that there’s not enough supply of memes in the web3 space & created the first vision of MemeDAO in a day
7:30 What it takes to become a Meme Lord
8:20 How do they protect the community’s vi...
2022-03-3051 min
ALGO: A LOT GOING ON WITH RAJ KOTECHA | THE NO1 PODCAST IN DUBAIExpo Ends, New Instagram Feeds, UK Inflation - The Raj Kotecha Show (ALGO) EP23In today's episode of The Raj Kotecha Show, we have Alex and Vik on for ALGO (A Lot Going On). Below are some of the rapid-fire things we speak about.
0:00 SCENE ZERO
2:41 OUT & ABOUT IN DUBAI
4:05 RAJ AND VIK ON HOSTMASTERS
9:01 @KISHMEISTER PODCAST PREVIEW
21:05 INSTAGRAM UPDATES ITS FEED
26:24 UK INFLATION
37:56 EXPO COMING TO A CLOSE
47:28 CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS
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2022-03-261h 02
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#13: Yawn Rong, Co-Founder @ STEPN | How they build & grow one of the most successful GameFi apps that
pay people for walking & running
In Ep.13 Yawn Rong, STEPN Co-Founder tells us:
- What they’ve learned from Axie Infinity’s mistakes,
- Why you SHOULDN’T hype your project too much,
- How history inspired the design of sustainable tokenomics,
- What tactic made their Discord grow,
and much much more.
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If you'd like to discuss Web3, join our We...
2022-03-221h 01
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#12: Austin Griffith, Ethereum Builder & Educator | How to choose an Ethereum project to work on, ship it & promote it
to the first usersIn this Episode Austin tells us:
- What mental models does he use to choose which products to work on,
- Where are the biggest gaps in web3 waiting to be filled with new great products,
- How to build an MVP in an hour,
- Where to promote your product,
and 100 other useful builder-oriented tips.
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If you'd...
2022-03-1457 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#11: Andre Serrano, Community Lead @ CityCoins | The story behind MiamiCoin & how it helps people invest in & co-create their favorite cityIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
In this episode Andre Serrano tells us:
- Why CityCoins are not what most ppl think.
- How they let citizens earn, create apps & raise money for their city.
- How they've educated Mayor Francis Suarez & other gov. officials about MiamiCoin.
If you want to support Ukraine by sending them crypto directly, here are their official wallet addresses:
...
2022-03-0439 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#10: Nik Kalyani, Founder & CEO @ Decentology | Helping web2 developers to build web3 dapps without the need to learn how to write smart contractsIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
In this Episode Nik Kalyani tells us:
- What web3 can learn from web2 about composability;
- Why you don’t need to know Solidity or Rust to start building web3 dapps;
- How can we fix discoverability, monetization & security issues in web3,
- How they reach developers & build their community.
PS: Nik’s been organizing support for Ukrainian NFT artists. If you’...
2022-02-2738 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#9: Szymon Sypniewicz, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ramp Network | Building and growing a crypto payment platform that supports Axie Inifinity, Sorare & AaveIn this Episode Szymon Sypniewicz from RampNetwork tells us:
- About Ramp's obsession over UX,
- How they got partners such as Axie Infinity, SoRare, Polygon & Aave,
- How Ramp is not just a payments business, but also an identity business,
- How to manage a 40X growth.
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2022-02-1442 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#8: Mitchell Cuevas, Head of Growth @ Stacks | How Stacks gives Bitcoin new superpowers and what they’ve been doing to grow their ecosystemIn Ep. 8 Mitchell shares:
Why Stacks has chosen Bitcoin as a foundation,
Why they wanted SEC qualification,
How a variety of projects help their community to grow,
Info about a partnership with Codeacademy to provide chain-agnostic education,
How does Mintery - an NFT accelerator - work.
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2022-02-0640 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#7: Leon Erichsen, Builder Community Manager @ Gitcoin | How Gitcoin has been using crypto
to connect developers and provide $50M+ to public good projectsIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
In this episode, Leon Erichsen from Gitcoin tells us:
- Why crypto connects people from both sides of the libertarian-socialist spectrum,
- How crypto helped Gitcoin to connect developers living in different parts of the world to build new open-source projects,
- How quadratic funding helps to make even 1$ count and fund projects that can do the most for the common...
2022-01-251h 04
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#6: Zakku, Co-Founder @ Coordinape | How DAO contributors get compensated and how it impacts the DAO cultureIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
Zakku tells us:
- why DAOs decentralize their compensation systems,
- when hard conversations about $ build stronger teams,
- how proof-of-value can serve as your digital resume,
- what are the similarities between DAO2DAO & B2B models.
2022-01-1946 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#5: Chairman Ape, Founder @ Ludo Labs | Using NFTs to build a football community and connect fans with the world’s top football playersIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
In this Episode Chairman Ape shares:
- How they started a collaboration with players such as Paolo Dybala, Patrice Evra, and Miralem Pjanic,
- What was the story of promoting Ludo Labs via a community member & YouTube football influencer - Fiago,
- Pros and cons of utility NFTs,
- How did the process of designing NFT cards look like...
2021-12-2346 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#4: Ivona Tau, 1/1 NFT Artist | NFT artist's work and everyday challengesIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
Ivona Tau, award-winning AI NFT artist whose works has been auctioned at Foundation and Sotheby's, tells us:
how she sold her first NFT and how she promotes her arts now,
how does the creation of a 1/1 AI NFT look like, and how long does it take,
how she got her art listed at Sotheby's,
and much more.
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2021-12-2051 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#3: Nitish Reddy, Founder @ Bip.so | Potential & challenges of DAO collaboration and the tool that can
make it easierIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
How Building in Public has helped Nitish's startup and inspired him to build Bip?
What are the best things from Git and the OpenSource community that has been implemented in Bip?
Why it's so hard to collaborate in DAOs with just Google Docs & Notion?
What are the reasons why DAOs might not be that eager to test new products?
How to take care of your community when your product is still...
2021-12-0233 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#2: Rohit Goyal, Founder @ Mesh Finance | Lessons in building CeFi & DeFi crypto products from a Founder that built bothIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new episode comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
In this episode, we learn:
Why Rohit stopped working on the mobile game studio that had 3M users and turned into crypto?
How Mudrex helped over 40k users invest in crypto and generated over $2B+ in transactions?
What’s the difference between CeFi & DeFi crypto investment products?
How DeFi projects make new users trust their services?
How did running FB Ads and using memes help with spreading a message ab...
2021-11-2231 min
Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders#1: Madhavan Malolan, Founder @ Questbook | Building web3 communities: from almost 0 to 15,000 developers in 2,5 monthsIf you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new episode comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
Questbook helps web2 developers learn web3 skills. It's a YC startup, backed by multiple Indian high-profile businessmen.
Madhavan tells us:
- What Questbook really is,
- How they build such as vibrant developers community,
- What's their business model,
- How they acquire new users,
- Do they plan to become fully decentralized,
- What are the most mind-blowing Web3 projects he's s...
2021-11-1628 min
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