Fork the Product
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe podcast that explores blockchain, product and UX with founders and builders.
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029 – Jaye Harrill – Quantstamp
April 05, 2020 02:56 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Jaye Harrill, Communications Manager at Quantstamp - a leader in blockchain security, offering smart contract and front-end audits to enhance the security of decentralized applications. Passionate communications manager for blockchain security company Quantstamp, Jaye has a long leadership history in blockchain and Ethereum community spaces. She has dedicated her life to bringing broad visibility to the transformative changes this technology is expected to ...
028 – Deniz Omer – Kyber Network
April 05, 2020 02:54 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Deniz Omer, Head of Ecosystem Growth at Kyber Network - an on-chain liquidity protocol that aggregates liquidity from a wide range of reserves, powering instant and secure token exchange in any decentralized application. Kyber is a on-chain liquidity protocol that anyone can tap into for a wide variety of inter-token use cases. For example, vendors are able to accept payments in multiple tokens on their e-commerce platforms yet receiving in their preferred ...
027 – Mo Dong – Celer Network
April 05, 2020 02:51 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Mo Dong, co-founder of Celer Network - a leading layer-2 scaling platform that enables developers to build highly scalable decentralized applications through fast, easy and secure off-chain transactions. Graduated with a Ph.D. from UIUC, Dr. Mo Dong has been applying his research and engineering experience on networking protocol design, distributed systems, formal verification and Game Theory to scalability challenges of blockchain systems. Dr. Dong led pro...
026 – Michael Sena – 3Box
April 05, 2020 02:48 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Michael Sena, co-founder and CEO of 3Box - a company aiming to be the shared backend for web3 by making it simple for developers to store data securely with their users. 3Box makes it simple to store data securely with your users, letting you focus on building great products. Enjoy! Links Michael’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/somemikesena 3Box Website: https://3box.io/ 3Box Twitter: https://twitter.com/3boxdb 3Box Medium: https://medium.com/3box 3Box Disc...
025 – Jack O’Holleran – SKALE Labs
April 05, 2020 02:46 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Jack O’Holleran, co-founder and CEO of SKALE Labs - a company building a modular protocol that allows developers to easily provision highly configurable blockchains so developers can focus on building scalable decentralized applications. Jack is a veteran Silicon Valley Technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies, security, and blockchain. His resume includes co-founder of Aktana, co-founder IncentAlign, and executive p...
024 – Bradley Kam – Unstoppable Domains
April 05, 2020 02:43 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Bradley Kam, co-founder and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains - a company focused on helping make crypto payments simple and enabling anyone to create censorship-resistant websites with blockchain domains. Brad is a serial entrepreneur from Atlanta. Unstoppable Domains, a registry business building domain names on blockchains. In May, Unstoppable raised $4.3M led by Draper Associates. Previously, he co-founded Talkable, a YC backed marketing...
023 – Elena Sinelnikova & Natalia Ameline – CryptoChicks
March 31, 2020 15:34 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Elena Sinelnikova and Natalia Ameline, co-founders of CryptoChicks - a self-financed non-profit changing the lives of women and youth around the world through education and mentorship around blockchain and AI. Elena and Natalia started CryptoChicks after getting a huge turnout for a blockchain meetup they organized in Toronto in 2017 to help other women to navigate through Blockchain technology. CryptoChicks supports women and youth in Canada, USA, Bahamas, ...
021 – Shiv Malik – Streamr
March 31, 2020 15:32 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Shiv Malik, Head of Growth at Streamr - a real-time data protocol for the decentralized web focused on data monetization and exchange. Shiv is the author of two books, the co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank, and a former investigative journalist for the Guardian. In his role with Streamr, he evangelizes about a new decentralized data economy and is completely psyched about bringing data unions to the world. Streamr aims to replace centr...
020 – David Gold – Dapix
March 31, 2020 15:32 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, we sit down with David Gold, Founder and CEO of Dapix, a venture-backed company launching the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) Protocol aimed at revolutionizing blockchain usability. David brings decades of experience as a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor to this ambitious project. The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is a consortium of leading wallets, exchanges, and crypto payment processors supporting the FIO Protocol....
019 – Season 3 Intro – ETH Denver 2020
March 31, 2020 15:12 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode, we chat about highlights and insights at ETH Denver 2020 and NFT.NYC. We also dig into what the future might hold for crypto as we find our way through a global crisis.
022 – Rori Knudtson – Infinite Seed
March 31, 2020 15:01 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Rori Knudtson, the CEO and Founder of Infinite Seed, a decentralized entertainment world building ecosystem that incentivizes people to adopt new behavior patterns with a positive impact on environmental disruption. She works in the spaces between art, architecture and film. Infinite Seed aims to unlock the profound power of embodied storytelling through present and emerging media platforms to encourage, educate and co-create. Engaging the emotional attentio...
018 – Tarik Bellamine and Kevin Kim – Gossamer
November 20, 2019 06:51 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBIn this episode, we speak with Tarik Bellamine and Kevin Kim, co-founders of Gossamer. Tarik is a full-stack and Ethereum developer who was previously at Capital One and Pace Harmon and passionate about personal finance, DeFi, and building cool things. Kevin is a product manager, designer and front-end developer who was previously at Quartz and Facebook. He has a passion for applying research and user experience to product development. Kevin and Tarik met and became good friends at the Unive...
017 – Alan Carr and Bryce Bladon – Dapper Labs
November 20, 2019 06:49 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBIn this episode, we speak with Alan Carr, co-founder of KittyCalc and Product Lead at CryptoKitties, and Bryce Bladon, Director of Communications at Dapper Labs. In addition to his work as a game designer and product manager for CryptoKitties, Alan also contributes to other projects at Dapper Labs. He is a Jack of all trades, master of dragons, and previously worked on entertainment experiences everywhere from Blizzard Entertainment to Asterism Books, his own self publishing imprint for young...
016 – Sean Papanikolas – Cargo
November 20, 2019 06:48 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this episode, we speak with Sean Papanikolas, founder and CEO of Cargo. Sean has extensive experience as a developer as well as a founder of various businesses. Frustrated after being shut out by a payment processor he was trying to use for his crypto project, Sean founded Cargo to solve the problem himself. Cargo is a service platform that securely tokenizes tangible and digital assets on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing anyone to buy, sell, auction, trade or transfer those assets in a ...
015 – John Crain – SuperRare
November 20, 2019 06:48 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBIn this episode, we speak with John Crain, co-founder and CEO of SuperRare. John has an extensive background in product consulting for fortune 500s like Coca-Cola & AT&T before taking the leap and working on products in the e-commerce and crypto space. SuperRare is a marketplace to collect and trade unique, single-edition digital artworks. Each artwork is authentically created by an artist in the network, and tokenized as a crypto-collectible digital item that anyone can own and trade. We s...
014 – Leighton Cusack – PoolTogether
November 20, 2019 06:47 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode, we speak with Leighton Cusack, founder and CEO of PoolTogether. Leighton was previously the co-founder and CEO of Kindrid, a company dedicated to increasing generosity through technology. PoolTogether is a no loss lottery built on Ethereum leveraging Dai and Compound. Their mission is to create financial security by offering a healthy alternative to lotteries. We explore how PoolTogether started as a hackathon project at ETHDenver and what Leighton has done to transform it ...
012 – Devin Finzer – OpenSea
November 20, 2019 06:41 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIn this episode, we speak with Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of OpenSea. Before OpenSea, Devin worked at Pinterest and Google, and sold his previous company to Credit Karma. OpenSea is the world’s largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFT's). Users can buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital assets like Gods Unchained Cards, ENS names, CryptoKitties, Decentraland plots and much more. We discuss the evolution of OpenSea with Devin to understand how...
011 – Season 2 Intro – NFTs and DeFi
November 20, 2019 06:39 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode, co-hosts Nick and Zach chat about a new approach to releasing episodes, this season's focus on NFTs and DeFi projects and episode highlights. Enjoy!
013 – Jayson Hobby – Compound
November 20, 2019 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode, we speak with Jayson Hobby, Head of Design at Compound. Hailing from Stumptown, Oregon, Jayson has deep design experience, previously leading pro and institutional Product Design at Coinbase including Coinbase Custody, Pro and Prime. Before diving into crypto, Jayson cut his teeth on product on the founding team of Uber Freight by way of Otto. In his free time he's listening to obscure music or casting cardboard spells in Magic The Gathering. Compound is an open-source, auto...
010 – Season 1 Finale
June 16, 2019 20:52 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this episode, we look back on the first season of Fork the Product to chat about lessons learned, patterns we've observed across projects and what's ahead for the industry. In the next season of Fork the Product, we'll be digging even deeper into specific aspects of UX and product strategy. Stay tuned!
009 – Katy Jeremko – Twos Complement
June 16, 2019 20:42 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBIn this episode, we speak with Katy Jeremko. Katy is a designer who has built and launched successful products for the last decade. She is known for her work with NASA’s open government initiative, and as a co-founder of re:3D, the manufacturer of the Gigabot 3D Printer. Katy is also a partner at Two's Complement a Colorado technology studio that harnesses the power of complimentary design and development for high-caliber teams. Links https://www.twoscomplement.io/ https://www.twoscompl...
008 – Doug Petkanics – Livepeer
February 26, 2019 08:28 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBIn this episode, we speak with Doug Petkanics, co-founder and CEO of Livepeer. Livepeer is developing open source video infrastructure services on top of the Ethereum blockchain. For those interested in learning about how a project tackles the huge challenge of designing token economic systems to properly align incentives of different groups in a network, this episode is for you. Doug describes what it was like in the early days when he and his co-founder were trying to prove to themselves t...
007 – Annie Brown – Lips
February 06, 2019 19:46 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBIn this episode, we speak with Annie Brown, founder of Lips. What started out as an assignment for an Introduction to Women’s Studies class has evolved into something much bigger over the course of ten years. Their aim is to carve out a space for open and honest expression of sexuality through stories, poetry, and artwork. We had a fantastic conversation with Annie exploring how Lips sits at the intersection of sexuality, feminism, technology and community. The Lips team is doing really impor...
006 – Anne Griffin – OpenLaw
January 15, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBIn this episode, we speak with Anne Griffin, Lead Product Manager at OpenLaw. OpenLaw is a ConsenSys spoke that is building next generation smart legal agreements. We cover a lot of great topics in this discussion such as how the OpenLaw team is trying to build a Wikipedia-like community to drive contract law forward, what their business model is, how they overcome being such a geographically distributed and remote-first team, and much more. Like in many industries, the legal community still...
005 – Bobby Dresser – MetaMask
January 01, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBIn this episode, we get deep and philosophical with Bobby Dresser, Technical Project Manager for MetaMask. For the uninitiated, MetaMask is the gateway to Web3 enabling you to run Ethereum dApps right in your browser. We had a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with Bobby discussing the dynamics of working on a remote-first team, the fuzziness of competition and collaboration, and so much more. One of the most interesting aspects of our discussion with Bobby was hearing his perspectiv...
004 – Amy Ngai – Cryptokitties
December 15, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Amy Ngai, Product Designer at CryptoKitties. If you’re living under a rock and don’t know CryptoKitties, it’s one of the first Ethereum-based decentralized apps to gain some degree of mainstream adoption. It’s a game developed by Axiom Zen centered around breedable, collectible and adorable cats that are one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you. In our conversation, we get an inside look at how the team behind this early success is tackling the challenges of desig...
003 – Vishakh – Cryptonomic
November 15, 2018 12:30 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBIn this episode, we dig in with Vishakh, the co-founder of Cryptonomic. Cryptonomic is NYC-based startup building developer tools to enable decentralization and digital sovereignty in a multi-chain future. Vishakh gives us the inside scoop on how his team has grown and evolved, why he believes in a multi-chain future and how Cryptonomic is helping build towards that starting with the first Tezos wallet. While working at J.P. Morgan for several years, Vishakh found himself spending more and m...
002 – Justin Hunter – Graphite
November 15, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBIn this episode, we sit down with Justin Hunter, founder of Graphite. Built on Blockstack, Graphite is an open source, decentralized and encrypted replacement for Google G-Suite and Microsoft Office. We explore Justin’s interesting path to blockchain, what problems Graphite is solving, why he chose to build Graphite on Blockstack and much more. Justin has a somewhat atypical background and path to crypto compared to others in the space. Up until a year and a half ago, Justin had only dabbled...
001 – Evin McMullen – Stow Protocol
November 15, 2018 11:30 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBIn this episode, we speak with Evin McMullen, CEO and Spoke Lead at Stow Protocol (formerly Linnia). Stow Protocol is a web3.0 backend-in-a-box that helps developers build decentralized applications without knowledge of cryptography or solidity, and gives end-users control of their data. We cover a lot of big topics in this discussion such as how the Stow Protocol team uses design thinking for building a backend protocol, how they are thinking about business models, their approach for roadmap...
000 – Genesis – Introducing Fork the Product
November 01, 2018 01:08 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThis is our genesis episode. Rather than interview a guest, your co-hosts Nick and Zach introduce themselves and interview each other. Since typical episodes will mostly cover the people we interview and their projects, we felt it was important to share a bit about ourselves and the reason we started Fork the Product. We also get into what we hope to get out of this project, what we hope the crypto community gets out of it, why we chose to do a podcast, and how we want our listeners to engag...