People Talking | A Web3 Podcast That's Not About Web3 Alex Mexicotte

They say that game developers know more about human nature than psychologists, but gamers themselves are a close second if we can look at why we enjoy certain games over others.My guest this week is Sam Simmons, Co-Founder at Mintpass: a collecting experience that makes your travels a part of your digital identity. Previously he spent 9 years rising up to become the President at PokerGo, a world-leader in poker television. But his resume started where a lot of web3 builders start: MMOs. ...

Ever heard of social contract theory? If not, you have almost certainly heard the quote “...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” That’s from our favorite optimist Thomas Hobbes, the father of modern social contract theory. Followed by other prominent figures like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this trifecta formed a lot of modern humanity’s opinions on human nature. And when you’re working in a field that is fundamentally using technology to create better coordi...

Ever heard of GPT? Obviously. But this episode isn’t covering the basics. Francesco Bisardi has been in small web3 and AI circles since 2017 working for Vite Labs, Nonfiction, TechCrunch and most recently at Bitgo. He’s been coding since he was 9 and brings that background to his work in growth hacking and influences the way he approaches his interests in AI. In this episode we discuss a lot of similarities he sees between the early AI and web3 communities, alpha on how to practical...

Hey People Listening, did you get your first foray into social media learning CSS and HTML to personalize your Myspace page? Do you doom scroll Twitter? Do you wonder about the elements of social media and which are good and bad?This week I have Lou Kerner on the show, who is both a social media and web3 veteran, to dig into social networks and community. Starting with his early days of helping run Bolt, an early social network started in 1996, he walks us through his love of community and ho...

Jim Chang (0xJim) is known on Twitter for his DeFi wizardry, incubating projects through Aave’s experimental arm, and hilarious but dense research on things like interoperability and rollups as a service. But in this episode we dive into 2 of his loves: Backpacking and Fashion. What relation do these things have to web3? What relation do they have to each other (hint: convertible pants)?A sneak peak at what we cover in this episode:How does backpacking prepare you for product launches?Why sho...

David Goldberg is the co-founder of Macro which is a web3 security company that does smart contract audits with customers like Synthetix, MakerDAO, Frax, Connext and more. They also are building products for web3 security. Before he dove into web3, he was a software engineer at Salesforce for a few years and founded a few startups. He has synthesized his experience in startups down into guidelines for creating breakthrough ideas which we’ll dive into today.For founders, identifying potential ...