Next Creators
112 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -Welcome to Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. This means covering NFTs, music, community platforms, and other ways creators are earning directly from their work.
This podcast is part of the Human Guild. Learn more at - https://humanguild.io
Join our discord to discuss this episode and meet other creators and see how you can support your favorite artists : https://discord.gg/bUu2hcdzxW
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How Do You Switch to Web3 as a Developer? w/ 19-Year-Old Dev Miguel Piedrafita
August 13, 2021 20:28 - 44 minutes - 41 MBMiguel Piedrafita recently made the switch to web3 as a developer at Showtime, an NFT social network. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Why he made his first project open-source • How NFTs are a new primitive for the internet • Finding a community to grow with • New ways to monetize projects on the web • Advice for others who are thinking of making the switch to web3 Episode links: Miguel Piedrafita: https://twitter.com/m1guelpf Showtime: https://tryshowtime.com [Miguel'...
Being a Web3 Content Creator w/ Connie Digital
August 06, 2021 18:25 - 25 minutes - 23 MBConnie Digital is a content creator in the Web3 space. He's written for Cointelegraph, was one of the first to experiment with social tokens with his own token $HUE, and is a musician and artist. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Being a writer and a musician in the web3 space • What caused the explosion of NFTs • Being one of the first to experiment with social tokens • Why Cryptovoxels and Decentraland are like the evolutions of personal websites • His three ideas on what'...
Can You Remix NFTs and Music Like Using Photoshop? w/ Async Art CEO Conlan Rios
July 30, 2021 15:42 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBConlan Rios is founder and CEO of Async Art - a company that allows anyone to create and collect programmable media enabling you to split digital paintings and music into "layers" which let you affect the overall work. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Why web3 is the most exciting technology opportunity creators and founders have had in 20 years • His transition from game development to starting Async Art • Leaving school at 17 and cold calling startups • What was behind the...
Defining a New Path for Photographers w/ Justin Aversano (Rebroadcast)
July 20, 2021 19:43 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBJustin Aversano is a photographer and curator working within the New York City and Los Angeles art scene. Recently Justin had one of his NFT series selected for Sotheby's auction with total Twin Flames exceeded $1 million in total resales. Justin is the co-founder and creative director of SaveArtSpace, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing community art to public spaces. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Discovering NFTs • His Twin Flames photo series, a collection of 100 Twin Por...
Finding Product-Market Fit and the Future of DAOs With MintGate CEO Jonathan Dunlap
July 13, 2021 18:28 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBJonathan Dunlap is CEO and founder of MintGate - a company allowing creators to create token-protected pages for any content for their community including events, videos, music, websites, and written blogs. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Software shops running as co-ops • Enabling communities with MintGate • The new possibilities of DAOs • How democracy itself is a technology and can evolve • Running the flash runtime team at Adobe • How to think about product-market fit...
Building a Powerful NFT Protocol w/ Mintbase CEO Nate Geier
July 06, 2021 13:31 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBNate Geier is CEO of Mintbase, the Shopify for the new virtual economy. Mintbase enables you to monetize your content by allowing you to create and sell NFTs as art, tickets, music and more. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Helping create Wildeverse, the world's first hybrid NFT festival • The emerging crypto community in Lisbon • Hurdles of rewriting Mintbase in Rust • Early career days of overhauling NIkeID from jQuery to React • The future of smart contracts and DAOs Ep...
Building a Digital Fashion OS with DIGITALAX CEO Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee
June 29, 2021 13:34 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBEmma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee is CEO and founder of DIGITALAX, a digital fashion OS optimized for taking digital fashion into gaming, VR and other live 3D content environments. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: • Dropping out of space engineering school • How digital fashion can onboard new people into Web3 • Bringing NFTs to games like Minecraft, Among US, and Roblox • The state of the Metaverse today • Balancing building a platform for digital artists, gamers, and coders Episode...
Funding Journalism In Modern Ways w/ Journalist Kyle Chayka
June 18, 2021 23:26 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBKyle Chayka is a freelance journalist featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Verge and more. He's currently creator of the $DIRT newsletter which recently raised $33,000 in one week selling 131 NFTs. It's a proof-of-concept that shows NFTs alone can fund a small media company. In this week he talks with Sasha about: • Raising nearly $30K via NFTs to fund the $DIRT newsletter • His experience writing for Mirror, a new kind of publishing platform • How so...
Inspiring Musicians and Artists w/ Mattia Cuttini
June 11, 2021 18:11 - 33 minutes - 31 MBMattia Cuttini is a musician, painter, digital artist living in Italy. Recently NFTs and other web3 opportunities allowed him to work on his art full time. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • How Web3 platforms allowed him to pursue art full-time • Remixing art and music in Web3 in ways that weren't possible before • How he structures his day to create more • Advice for new artists entering the space • New platforms people should explore Episode links: Mattia Cuttini: https:/...
Exploring the Metaverse w/ Somnium Space CEO and Founder Artur Sychov
June 04, 2021 13:50 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBArtur Sychov is CEO & Founder of Somnium Space VR an open, social & persistent #VR platform built on blockchain where users can buy land as well as build or import objects. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Changing careers from day trader to an entrepreneur • How trying on a VR headset changed his life • Why the Metaverse is already here • How he grows the community in Somnium Space • Integrating blockchain as an integral part of VR in Somnium Space • Will there be one Meta...
What's Next For NFTs With Creator BruceTheGoose
May 28, 2021 23:11 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWelcome to the new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. In this week's episode Sasha talks with NFT artist BruceTheGoose about: • Being able to change his life trajectory because of NFTs • Why we've only barely scratched the surface of what NFTs are capable of • Being the first artist to mint on Paras • Questioning whether we are killing the environment by running NFTs • Advice for new creators in crypto...
Pivoting from Calligraphy to Digital Artist w/ Max Jackson
May 22, 2021 02:29 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBWelcome to the new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. In this week's episode Sasha talks with Max Jackson about: • Becoming a pedi cab driver • Learning Calligraphy from YouTube • Advice for creators who feel stuck • Completing 100 days of Blender • Building a community to find healthy base of support Episode links: Max Jackson: twitter.com/mxjxn Paras Profile: https://paras.id/mxjxn.near/collection...
Re-imagining Music Labels w/ DAOrecords Founder Vandal
May 14, 2021 18:33 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBWelcome to the new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. In this week's episode Sasha talks with Jason "Vandal" Schadt, founder of DAOrecords about: • Having a top billboard hit and signing away all music rights to it • Differences between music industries in different countries • Giving music artists control again with audio NFTs and in Web3 • His advice for creators and new builders • How music labels m...
From Welder to Technologist and NFT Artist w/ Rogan X
May 07, 2021 21:44 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBWelcome to the new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. This means NFTs, gaming, music, community platforms, and other ways creators are earning directly from their work and building a community with their supports. In this week's episode Sasha talks with Rogan X - welder, NFT artist, and technologist about: • Becoming a certified journeyman welder • How he discovered Web3 • Fitting in as an artist in th...
Building a Modern Way to Play Games w/ OPGames CEO Chase Freo
April 30, 2021 18:55 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBWelcome to a new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. This means NFTs, gaming, music, community platforms, and other ways creators are earning directly from their work and building a community with their supports. In this week's episode Sasha talks with Chase Freo, CEO of OPGames, about: • The current state of gaming • What are game jams and how do they work? • Balancing play-to-earn incentives with com...
Defining a New Path for Photographers w/ Justin Aversano
April 22, 2021 21:33 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBWelcome to a new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. This means covering NFTs, music, community platforms, and other ways creators are earning directly from their work. This podcast is part of the Human Guild. Learn more at - https://humanguild.io Join our discord to discuss this episode and meet other creators and see how you can support your favorite artists : https://discord.gg/bUu2hcdzxW
Defining a New Path for Creators W/ Photographer Justin Aversano
April 22, 2021 21:33 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBWelcome to a new episode of Next Creators, a podcast interviewing creators forging a new path for themselves and others on the internet. This means covering NFTs, music, community platforms, and other ways creators are earning directly from their work. This podcast is part of the Human Guild. Learn more at - https://humanguild.io Join our discord to discuss this episode and meet other creators and see how you can support your favorite artists : https://discord.gg/bUu2hcdzxW
(Rebroadcast) Bridging Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Product Design with Tara Tan From IDEO CoLab Ventures
March 10, 2021 02:38 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBUPDATE: We will be back shortly! Join our new Discord in the meantime for updates on the podcast and our upcoming guild! https://discord.com/invite/bUu2hcdzxW Tara Tan is an investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, which is the investment arm of IDEO. In this episode, she talks with Sasha about: •Her unique perspective and the expertise IDEO brings to the table •How the space has evolved in last several years •Why adopting a product-first and user-first mindset is critical for founders •Why pro...
Bridging Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Product Design with Tara Tan From IDEO CoLab Ventures (Rebroadcast)
March 10, 2021 02:38 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBUPDATE: We will be back shortly! Join our new Discord in the meantime for updates on the podcast and our upcoming guild! https://discord.com/invite/bUu2hcdzxW Tara Tan is an investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, which is the investment arm of IDEO. In this episode, she talks with Sasha about: •Her unique perspective and the expertise IDEO brings to the table •How the space has evolved in last several years •Why adopting a product-first and user-first mindset is critical for founders •Why pro...
What is DeFi? w/ Senior CoinDesk Reporter Brady Dale (Rebroadcast)
March 02, 2021 22:25 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBNEWS - Join our new Discord for updates on the podcast and our upcoming guild! https://discord.com/invite/bUu2hcdzxW Brady Dale is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, a publication reaching millions focused on digital assets and blockchain technology. There he covers blockchain-based startups. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • What exactly DeFi is • Do boom cycles bring more innovation • What are NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) and what are their use cases • What is yield farming and l...
(Rebroadcast) What is DeFi? w/ Senior CoinDesk Reporter Brady Dale
March 02, 2021 22:25 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBNEWS - Join our new Discord for updates on the podcast and our upcoming guild! https://discord.com/invite/bUu2hcdzxW Brady Dale is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, a publication reaching millions focused on digital assets and blockchain technology. There he covers blockchain-based startups. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • What exactly DeFi is • Do boom cycles bring more innovation • What are NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) and what are their use cases • What is yield farming and l...
(Rebroadcast) Startup Advice for Blockchain Entrepreneurs w/ Electric Capital's Maria Shen
February 27, 2021 00:46 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBJoin our new Discord for updates on the podcast and our upcoming guild! https://discord.com/invite/bUu2hcdzxW Maria Shen is an investor at Electric Capital, an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. In this episode, she talks with Sasha about: •How she decided to pursue her own business and what she learned through this experience •What attracted her to join Electric Capital and what she does day-to-day as an investor •How to avoid co...
Startup Advice for Blockchain Entrepreneurs w/ Electric Capital's Maria Shen (Rebroadcast)
February 27, 2021 00:46 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBJoin our new Discord for updates on the podcast and our upcoming guild! https://discord.com/invite/bUu2hcdzxW Maria Shen is an investor at Electric Capital, an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. In this episode, she talks with Sasha about: •How she decided to pursue her own business and what she learned through this experience •What attracted her to join Electric Capital and what she does day-to-day as an investor •How to avoid co...
Building A Fast Growing NFT Marketplace w/ Paras Founder Rahmat Albariqi
February 17, 2021 07:54 - 43 minutes - 40 MBRahmat "Riqi" Albariqi is founder of Paras, one of the fastest growing NFT marketplaces built on the NEAR protocol. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Differences in building a product integrating blockchain versus a traditional Web2 company • Finding your niche as a platform • Pivoting from building websites to social media to an NFT marketplace • Onboarding new artists onto their platform • Growing usage for your product after you've launched • Finding channels to gr...
Building One of the Fastest Growing NFT Marketplaces w/ Paras Founder Rahmat Albariqi
February 17, 2021 07:54 - 43 minutes - 40 MBRahmat "Riqi" Albariqi is founder of Paras, one of the fastest growing NFT marketplaces built on the NEAR protocol. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Differences in building a product integrating blockchain versus a traditional Web2 company • Finding your niche as a platform • Pivoting from building websites to social media to an NFT marketplace • Onboarding new artists onto their platform • Growing usage for your product after you've launched • Finding channels to gr...
Building a Modern News Org Covering #Defi W/ the Defiant Video Lead Robin Schmidt
February 09, 2021 14:50 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBRobin Schmidt is Head of Video & Multimedia at The Defiant, the premier resource for DeFi news and content. In this episode he talks with Sasha and Matt Lockyer about: • How developers and filmmakers are alike • Telling a good company story when the market is against you • The North Star at The Defiant • Staying current with all #DeFi news • How a meme is just a unit of story telling • Frictions that are holding back more experiments in DeFi • #RespectingDaPump Episode links: Ro...
Building the Bloomberg News of Web3 w/ The Defiant Video Lead Robin Schmidt
February 09, 2021 14:50 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBRobin Schmidt is Head of Video & Multimedia at The Defiant, the premier resource for DeFi news and content. In this episode he talks with Sasha and Matt Lockyer about: • How developers and filmmakers are alike • Telling a good company story when the market is against you • The North Star at The Defiant • Staying current with all #DeFi news • How a meme is just a unit of story telling • Frictions that are holding back more experiments in DeFi • #RespectingDaPump Episode links: Ro...
What Is a Peer Prediction Market? w/ Upshot CEO Nick Emmons
February 02, 2021 14:50 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBNick Emmons is CEO and co-founder of Upshot, a protocol that pays experts to be honest and uses a new field of mechanism design called peer prediction to incentivize people to answer questions truthfully. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Real applications for a peer prediction protocol and market • Creating a meme market • The state of the NFT market in early 2021 and how you can manage NFT appraisals • Use cases for decentralized claim insurance • The dominantly truthful m...
Building the Protocol Infrastructure for Web3 w/ ChainSafe Co-founders Aidan Hyman and Gregory Markou
January 26, 2021 14:50 - 43 minutes - 40 MBAidan Hyman and Greg Markou are cofounders and CEO and CTO, respectively, of ChainSafe a global leader in blockchain protocol and infrastructure development. In this episode they talk with Sasha and Matt Lockyer about: • The Toronto crypto and developer ecosystem • Implementing Typescript for the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem • Running and scaling a business when there's so much volatility in the space • The transformative community and experience of ETH Global and ETH Waterloo • The poss...
Advice for Creative Founders in Blockchain Gaming w/ Blockade Games CEO Marguerite deCourcelle
January 19, 2021 14:50 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBMarguerite DeCourcelle is CEO of Blockade Games, a leading blockchain video game development studio and maker of Neon District, a cyberpunk role-playing adventure and flagship franchise leveraging the latest in decentralized technologies, enabling players battle to progress through a sci-fi dystopia and earn in-game items. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: • Launching her first crypto puzzle • The opportunity for digital artists to monetize their work with NFTs • Embedding te...
How to Decentralize Your Product and Build Your Community w/ James Young Founder of Abridged
January 12, 2021 14:50 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBWelcome to our first episode of 2021! We're excited to have a packed episode with James Young. James is founder of Abridged, a technology stack to build and manage decentralized projects and maker of Collab.Land, tokenized community tooling. Previously he was at Zynga (Farmville), Moloch DAO, and MetaCartel. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • How talking too much in class lead him to wanting to be a programmer • Raising funds from Vitalik Buterin for Moloch DAO • Lessons he brou...
Holiday Update
December 24, 2020 01:10 - 12 seconds - 195 KBHi everyone we're on a short holiday break and have been busy planning more episodes with Open Web founders, builders, and investors for 2021. We hope you're staying safe and healthy. We will be back in 2021. Thank you for listening and subscribing! Follow us on Twitter: @OpenWebFounders Sasha Hudzilin: @AliaksandrH Subscribe to us on YouTube: Open Web Collective
How Can You Incentivize Developers to Build Products? w/ UMA Protocol Co-founder Hart Lambur
December 08, 2020 17:22 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBHart Lambur is co-founder of UMA Protocol, a decentralized financial contracts platform built to enable Universal Market Access. Similar to how HTTP allows information to move across borders, UMA allows risk to move across the internet without a centralized authority or single point of failure. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • How Hart made the switch to entrepreneurship from a trading desk • What are synthetic assets? • How we can move out of the proof-of-concept phase in cry...
Future Product Roadmaps of Blockchain Companies w/ Balaji Srinivasan
December 01, 2020 14:50 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBBalaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), and Teleport (acquired by Topia). In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • What lead him from biology into computer science and entrepreneurship • Real projects that are seeing 10X improvements over the past few years • How crypto is like a 10-100 million-person ...
The Miraculous Idea of Continuous Organizations with Fairmint CEO Thibauld Favre
November 24, 2020 17:10 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBThibauld Favre is CEO of Fairmint, a company focused on helping founders with the most effective solution to turn stakeholders into investors. Sasha is joined by special guest Matt Lockyer from the NEAR team. In this episode they talk about: • What is a continuous organization? • Waking up to seeing someone invest $20K in your company • Reversing the negotiation power between you and your investor • How traditional organizations will become DAOs • Using a DeFi stack to build a consumer ...
Why Should Data Be More Open? w/ Sia Co-founder David Vorick
November 17, 2020 14:50 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBDavid Vorick is CEO and co-founder of Sia, a leading decentralized cloud storage network secured by blockchain technology. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • The one thing that lead to the centralization of the internet • Why we should open up the internet again • Making data secure when users are convenience-minded not privacy-minded • Making sustainable content without advertising • His favorite Web3 consumer apps • Mental models and resources useful for building a thrivin...
What is DeFi? w/ Senior CoinDesk Reporter Brady Dale
November 10, 2020 22:13 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBBrady Dale is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, a publication reaching millions focused on digital assets and blockchain technology. There he covers blockchain-based startups. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • What exactly DeFi is • Do boom cycles bring more innovation • What are NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) and what are their use cases • What is yield farming and liquidity mining • Music artist Imogen Heap's project with blockchain and IP • Should you be paying attention to pred...
Bringing More Users and Developers Into the Crypto Space With Carolyn Reckhow From Thesis
November 03, 2020 15:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBCarolyn Reckhow is Head of Business Development and Strategy at Thesis, a cryptocurrency venture production studio that builds and invests in products that empower individuals. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: • How her background in social sciences helped build a foundation to make her successful in crypto • Building teams to scale at Consensus • Defining your user persona to help you build your crypto product • What was revealed to her that convinced her to join the Thesis t...
A Guide for Web3 Founders Entering the Asian Market With Joyce Yang From Global Coin Research
October 27, 2020 14:06 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBJoyce Yang is founder of Global Coin Research, an online publication focused on helping traders, investors and execs get deep access and research into the Asia crypto ecosystem. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: • Turning Global Coin Research from a small newsletter into a business • Go-to-market strategies for breaking into Asia • How to build awareness for your startup in Asia • How Alipay and WeChat are digitizing the entire cash payment system in China • DeFi trends she is...
How to Go From Entrepreneur to Investor: Lessons and Stories From Haseeb Qureshi From Dragonfly Capital
October 20, 2020 13:50 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBHaseeb Qureshi is Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital, a cryptocurrency venture capital firm. Their portfolio includes companies like Cosmos, dYdX, and Maker. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Turning $50 into over $100K in poker • Working on Brian Armstrong's code at Airbnb • Advice for product teams entering crypto • Developing a vulnerability against Bancor • Knowing what we know today, how would we design a payments system from scratch • Being recruited by Naval Ravika...
How to Make Good Mischief with Meltem Demirors from CoinShares
October 13, 2020 21:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBMeltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, pioneers in digital asset investing. They believe bitcoin and blockchain networks are landmark innovations that will fundamentally reshape the global financial system. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: • Staging a FinTech protest at MIT Media labs which eventually lead to one of the most widely attended online classes in MIT history • How 20 years of mental models have completely broken with new Web3 technologies • Asking...
Making Good Mischief with Meltem Demirors from CoinShares
October 13, 2020 21:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBMeltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, pioneers in digital asset investing. They believe bitcoin and blockchain networks are landmark innovations that will fundamentally reshape the global financial system. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: • Staging a FinTech protest at MIT Media labs which eventually lead to one of the most widely attended online classes in MIT history • How 20 years of mental models have completely broken with new Web3 technologies ...
Securing Identity and Privacy on Blockchain
October 06, 2020 23:46 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBYisi Liu is CTO at the Dimension Foundation. Dimension offers a series of products in advocatory for social liberty in the ever-realistic era of cyberspace, among which the most fundamental ones are Right of Cryptography and Freedom of Interpretation. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Why privacy and encryption is fundamental for Web3 • How Europe and the US think about privacy • The fundamental tradeoff between privacy and usability • Identity on blockchain • How the Open W...
A Whirlwind Conversation With VC Adam Draper on Sci-Fi Future Startups
September 29, 2020 20:07 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBAdam Draper is Founder and Managing Director of the Boost VC Accelerator. Boost VC Accelerator invests $500K in founders and focuses on technologies like crypto, VR/AR, AI, human augmentation, space and more. They've invested in over 250 companies from over 30 countries. In this episode Sasha talks with him about: • Advice for founders after hearing Coinbase pitch and being one of their earliest investors • Why video games are undervalued social networks • Why crypto is an amazing sandbox...
From Managing a $20 Million Hedge Fund to Launching Melonport
September 22, 2020 15:04 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBMona El Isa is CEO & Founder of Avantgarde Finance, a company focused on on-chain asset management and bringing the DeFi ecosystem together. She was formerly CEO and co-founder of Melonport. In this episode Sasha talks with her about: • Launching and managing a $20 million seed capital hedge fund • Selling out the Melonport token sale in two minutes • How to establish trust in a decentralized market • Similarities from being a trader at Goldman Sachs and building a DeFi product • Why t...
Tactical Advice for First Time Founders
September 15, 2020 13:50 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBCalvin Liu is a strategy lead at Compound, an open-source, autonomous interest rate protocol and one of the most widely used systems built on Ethereum, with tens of thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. He was previously founder of the iOS app Outpour. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Making decisions as a first-time entrepreneur versus a serial entrepreneur • What convinced him to join Compound when it was just a deck and a white paper • Produc...
Crossing the Chasm in Blockchain
September 08, 2020 13:50 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBAsh Egan is a partner at Accomplice where he invests in blockchain and crypto enabled protocols, applications and companies. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • Finding product-market fit outside of DeFi • Monetization opportunities in open finance • Avoiding tragedy-of-the-commons with building protocols • Successful DeFi experiments • How crypto networks differ from walled gardens like Facebook or Twitter • How to bring crypto adoption to the next level Episode links: Acco...
What's the Right Model to Get Funded?
September 01, 2020 13:50 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBEpisode Notes Jake Brukhman is founder and CEO of CoinFund, a blockchain technology research company and private cryptoasset investment firm. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: • What's changed in 2020 for the blockchain space • How to figure out the right model for decentralized funding • Bringing decentralized products to market • Leveraging blockchain tech to build companies • How the current pandemic will affect founders Episode links: CoinFund - https://coinfund.io Jake...
The Story Behind Chainlink
August 25, 2020 13:45 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBSergey Nazarov is Co-founder of Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network that provides real-world data to smart contracts on the blockchain. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: •The need for universally connected smart contracts •What is and what makes a good oracle •How Chainlink came to be •The world changing scenario for DeFi •What it takes to build blockchain infrastructure •Advice for developers and founders thinking of entering blockchain Episode links: Chainlink - http...
Breaking Political and Financial Silos with Blockchain
August 18, 2020 14:42 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBJill Carlson is a principal at Slow Ventures and co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit that researches how people use money in closed economies and collapsing monetary systems. In this episode she talks with Sasha about: •Early days of Bitcoin and Venezuela •How cryptocurrencies can dig tunnels through financial silos •Why she's still bullish on Layer 1 protocols •Advice on how to break into the crypto space when you're outside of it •Where founders can go for a source...