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Web3 Talks is a web3 podcast where founders of top crypto projects share the backstage perspective of their work and the lessons they learned along the way.
Join 1,500+ web3 founders, devs & operators who subscribe to Web3 Talks.

Hosted by Mac Budkowski.

    #48: Henri Stern, Co-Founder & CEO @ Privy | How they built a tool that brings web2-caliber UX to web3 products

    #48: Henri Stern, Co-Founder & CEO @ Privy | How they built a tool that brings web2-caliber UX to web3 products

    Henri is an ex-research scientist at Protocol Labs. He Co-Founded Privy, which provides web3 projects such as Friend.tech, t2 & Shibuya with seamless onboarding & embedded wallets.



    In this episode, we dive into the early MVPs of Privy, learn how it works under the hood, how they managed to design such as smooth UX & more.



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    TIMESTAMPS:



    00:00 A few words of intro

    01:56: Why Henri started working on Privy

    06:02 The early days of Privy

    11:37 How have they built their MVP

    13:15 Why did they make a pivot despite having an interest in their product

    15:41 Which features helped them to tip the scales

    22:34 How Privy works under the hood

    34:04 Most wallets were built with L1s in mind

    37:23 How do embedded wallets work

    48:24 What would happen with wallets if Privy went out of business

    50:36 How do they acquire their users

    53:24 What kind of metrics do they follow

    57:59 How does the world look like if Privy fulfilled its mission

    1:04:25 Where people can learn more about Privy

    • 1 hr 9 min
    #47: Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO @ Collab.Land | How they built a community management tool used by over 50,000 communities

    #47: Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO @ Collab.Land | How they built a community management tool used by over 50,000 communities

    Collab.Land is a tool for managing web3 communities and bridging them to Discord and Telegram. It has already been used by 50k+ communities and 8M+ wallets.

    Today we’re talking with Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO of Collab.Land, who shares their project’s story.


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    TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00 Teaser about Collab.Land's app marketplace

    00:56 Intro

    02:41 Abridge's first product, pivots & Collab.Land as a hackathon idea

    06:48 Early days of Collab.Land during the COVID pandemic

    12:07 How did they "sell" Collab.Land to communities

    15:50 Cooperation with Axie Infinity

    17:54 How they transitioned from a crypto-native tool to a mass-market tool

    28:27 How they designed the marketplace and what kind of Collab.Land apps are already out there

    35:51 What's their plan if Farcaster or Lens get more popular

    40:07 Why they created their token, how they designed its airdrop and what's the utility

    49:47 Biggest surprises when building Collab.Land

    57:27 Where people can learn more about Collab.Land

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    Our Gitcoin Grants page: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e-322

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    Web3 Talks is back!



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    #46: Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO @ Mailchain | How they built a privacy-first web3 e-mail protocol that lets you communicate between different blockchains

    #46: Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO @ Mailchain | How they built a privacy-first web3 e-mail protocol that lets you communicate between different blockchains

    Mailchain is basically a web3 email. It provides a web app that lets you send your emails as if you used Gmail or Hotmail. But you send your emails via your wallet, ENS, Lens profile, and other identities you may use. Thanks to that and end-to-end encryption, your emails are 100% private.

    Today we’re talking with Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO of Mailchain, who shares their project’s story.



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    TIMESTAMPS:

    1:46 Origins of Mailchain

    6:01 Why they didn’t decide to put emails on chain

    7:56 How Mailchain works

    11:51 How the first versions of Mailchain looked like

    14:56 How they acquired their first users across NFT artists and collectors?

    19:09 How is Mailchain different from XMTP?

    25:20 How do they decide which protocols to integrate

    28:14 How do they acquire new users now?

    30:16 What’s the process for integrating a new partner?

    31:59 How do they want to prevent SPAM?

    36:02 What’s enclave computing?

    38:07 How do they plan to prepare for a scale of billions of users?

    41:39 How do they plan to monetize Mailchain?

    44:25 What metrics do they follow?

    48:28 Why it might be hard to connect your Mailchain email to Gmail

    51:08 How would the world of communications look if Mailchain became a household name

    56:05 What would Tim build if he wasn’t building Mailchain

    1:00:00 Guests ideas

    • 1 hr 2 min
    #45: Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora | How they built one of the top NFT platforms used by Coinbase, Gucci, Grimes & thousands of creators

    #45: Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora | How they built one of the top NFT platforms used by Coinbase, Gucci, Grimes & thousands of creators

    Zora is one of the most popular web3 tools, used by the biggest creators in the NFT space. What were its early days? How they acquired their first users? How have they organized the Base campaign that generated 700,000+ mints?

    This and much more in our conversation with Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora.



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    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:58 Who is Dee Goens, why they started building Zora with Jacob and Tyson and what was the first Zora MVP

    05:50 What were the hardest trade-offs at an early stage?

    7:18 How they solved their dilemma between staying 100% on-chain and taking care of good UX?

    10:46 How Zora acquired their first users?

    14:42 How many people work at Zora now?

    16:10 How they organized their teams?

    18:26 Why they decided to work on a marketplace, NounsDAO builder & API?

    20:48 How did they set up a Base campaign that generated 700,000+ mints?

    26:01 How does their cooperation with brands look?

    33:19 Are they planning Zora Academy for NFT creators?

    34:27 Why they invested in Zine, which is a pretty old school content tactic?

    40:42 How does Zora acquire new collectors and artists?

    47:51 How they want the creator’s life to look in 2030?

    54:07 Why they changed their fee structure from 5% for primary sales to a flat fee?

    56:58 Mint market share, number of collectors, and other metrics Zora follows

    58:32 What would Dee build if he wasn’t building Zora?

    1:00:00 What would he fix with his web3 magic wand?

    1:02:15 Where can people learn more about Zora?

    • 1 hr 5 min

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