#5: Danielle Baskin - Striking Internet Gold

Silicon valley used to be the domain of the fringe. Wild ideas of social experiments, merry pranksters, and pioneering technologists building tools for imagined utopias. Somewhere along the line, this maverick spirit gave way to SaaS playbooks, an alphabet soup of soup of venture financings, and regimented productivity routines. 

Today’s guest Danielle Baskin keeps the experimental instinct of Silicon Valley’s past alive. Danielle has been called an artist, provocateur, businesswoman, and satirist - all at the same time. Motivated by the curiosity of how the public will make use of the tools and artworks she builds, Danielle combines art, technology, and business to go viral time after time. With a background in experimental theater and Runescape commerce, Danielle has launched over three dozen standalone companies including Dialup, an audio social network which at one point had 90,000 global concurrent users, and now Moonlight, an interactive tarot reading app and her first business with outside funding. 

Tune in to hear how she gets her best ideas, her bird calls, what she’s learned about managing concurrent projects, and a live tarot reading to help me make a big decision.

Website Show notes:

• Odyssey Works: https://www.odysseyworks.org/
• James Turrell: https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/james-turrell/
• Inkwell Helmets: https://www.inkwellhelmets.com/
• Social Sculpture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sculpture
• Dialup: https://dialup.com/
• Seagull Girl: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialilovetour/video/7361790577635003680
• Moonlight: https://moonlight.world/

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