Building At The Edges Seed Club
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In Building At The Edges, Jess Sloss, instigator at Seed Club, holds intimate conversations with top innovators building irresistible web3 communities. We surface insights from DAO experiments and dig into decentralization's dual challenges and opportunities. Web3 unlocks novel mechanisms for people, not platforms, to capture the value created online. Building At The Edges is where we sense-make the high-velocity design space at the intersection of crypto and community.
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The USV Thesis & Investing in Consumer Crypto with Nick Grossman
Jess chats with Nick Grossman, Partner at Union Square Ventures, to explore USV's investment theses. They delve into how USV tackles significant markets undergoing transformative pressures, spanning social networks, vertical networks, crypto, and climate in order to identify opportunities at the peripheries where change is most promising.
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The Problem with Points
Jess sits down with Brian Flynn, Founder and CEO of Rabbithole (https://rabbithole.gg/) to talk about the rise of points, the challenges they present, and some insights from building in consumer crypto in 2023.
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Exploring Consumer Crypto with SC06
A look at the people and products in SC06, Seed Club’s Consumer Crypto Accelerator
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Host: Jess Sloss
Guests: Patrick Rivera, Steph Alinsug, Sam Spike, Ed Fornieles, Ren Stern, Jessica Van Meir, wijuwiju.eth, plus7, Thomas Chen, Ryan Hamilton, Ryan McMahill, Adi Sideman, Lucas Campbell
Collect this episode on Pods: https://pods.media/theevent
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Jess: https://twitter.com/thattallguy
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Future Primitive and ERC-6551
Jess sits down with Benny Giang and Jayden Windle from Future Primitive to talk about ERC-6551, a new token standard that enables every NFT to have its own wallet. In this conversation, they break down how an EIP works, why they chose to identify the Future Primitive brand so heavily with an EIP, and they lay out some interesting use cases for ERC-6551. Tune in for interesting takes on the Metaverse, NPCs, digital fashion, and more.
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Jess: https://twitter.com/jessewldn
Seed Club: https://twitter.com/seedclubhq
Benny: https://twitter.com/BennyGiang
Jayden: https://twitter.com/jayden_windle
LINKS
https://www.seedclub.xyz/
https://m.twitch.tv/futureprimitivexyz
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:05 What is Future Primitive?
2:35 Launching Future Primitive as an EIP
6:11 What is an EIP?
8:04 ERC-6551
8:59 Future Primitive’s brand strategy
13:12 ERC-6551 use cases
17:42 User experience of ERC-6551
22:28 Benny’s view on the Metaverse
36:23 What makes Future Primitive novel
42:09 Closing thoughts
43:51 Outro
DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.
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Boys Club: A Social Collective - Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins, co-founders of Boys Club, a social collective bringing new voices to the internet. We break down the structure of Boys Club, how the DAO fits into the larger brand, how the brand can become profitable, and their choice to focus on building the media business first. We discuss bootstrapping vs. venture funding, community growth vs. audience growth, and we have a really interesting conversation on how the belief in a brand is what makes a brand valuable.
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Jess: https://twitter.com/jessewldn
Seed Club: https://twitter.com/seedclubhq
Deana: https://twitter.com/medeana
Natasha: https://twitter.com/natashaghoskins
Boys Club: https://twitter.com/boysclubworld
LINKS
https://www.seedclub.xyz/
https://www.boysclub.vip/newsletter
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:41 Boys Club
4:55 Is Boys Club a DAO?
11:27 Turning Boys Club into a business
22:44 Bootstrapping vs. venture funding
31:18 Belief in a brand
37:26 The Boys Club zine
38:55 Community growth vs. audience growth
40:34 DIMES
42:28 Outro
DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.
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Turning Listeners into Tastemakers - David Greenstein
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with David Greenstein, co-founder of Sound, to talk about how Sound is creating better incentive alignment in the music industry. David shares why he co-founded Sound, how the project has evolved over time and what we can expect to see in their new mobile app. We discuss David’s choice to build Sound as a protocol and the value that interoperability and permissionless building brings to the larger Sound brand as we talk about the value of curation, how Sound is empowering listeners to be tastemakers, and how curators can build businesses on top of Sound. Tune in to hear discussions on music collection and digital identity, the impact of AI on music, and the redistribution of value in the music industry at large.
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Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessewldn
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David: https://twitter.com/dgreenstein1
Sound: https://twitter.com/soundxyz_
LINKS
https://www.seedclub.xyz/
https://www.sound.xyz/
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
3:04 Sound.xyz
5:38 What blockchain technology can unlock for musical artists
8:13 The evolution of Sound
12:48 How Sound ships so fast
15:31 The choice to build Sound as a protocol
21:12 Turning listeners into tastemakers
25:22 The value of curation
27:21 Redistributing value in the music industry
29:34 The Sound mobile app
36:29 The role of AI in music
42:43 Closing thoughts
44:22 Follow David
45:59 Outro
DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.