Braintrust is a user-owned talent network that has done $37 million of volume in under two years since launching. It's also the best example of a "real-world" use case I've found in web3. 

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Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post and Not Boring Capital is an investor in Braintrust. 

Last week, Not Boring crossed 100,000 subscribers. In this episode, we take a quick look back, brush off the trolls, and re-commit to taking risks, getting things wrong, and being unabashedly optimistic.

You can read the full post at Not Boring.

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The dialogue around web3 has turned into a full-fledged debate and the focus has shifted to winning instead of the truth. 

I actually debated in high school and college, and started a Debate Club in NYC. I think the web3 debate is silly, and that the right answer is always in the middle, but after Prof G dropped his rebuttal against web3 for the Opposition, I had no choice but to jump in for the Proposition.

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Oscar IPO’d on March 3rd at $39 per share and started trading at $36 per share, good for a market cap just north of $7 billion. Since then, it’s down nearly 77%, its market cap hovering around $1.5 billion.

As The Abstract Investor summarized, the challenge, and opportunity, is that:

In this episode, we try to put together that murky puzzle by understanding the two businesses that Oscar is building -- a tech-enabled insurance business and an insurance-enabled tech business -- and how they might combine to create the kind of scale needed to compete in health insurance.

You can read the full post at Not Boring.

Not Boring Capital is launching a $30M Fund II. 

In this episode, we go behind the scenes of raising and running a small venture fund, share the most recent LP update, and talk about the value of pushing out the weirdness and risk curve. 

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2022 is the year that web3 starts making a meaningful impact on atoms-based challenges like healthcare and climate.

Web3 is a global, real-money economic and social simulation, a digital laboratory for complex problems. We dive into Allen Iverson, complexity economics, and non-fungible olive gardens to understand why, and what that means. 

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Medici, Not Boring Capital's first anon founder and Not Boring Founders' first anon guest, is the founder of Abacus, a decentralized NFT appraisal protocol. Launched in late November, Abacus has already been used to appraise millions of dollars worth of NFTs, including multiple Bored Apes, an XCOPY, and a Parallel. In this conversation, we discuss: 

- Why go anonymous as a web3 founder? 

- How Medici got into web3 and launched a protocol in under a year. 

- The Abacus appraisal process.

- On-chain appraisal as a job. 

- What will NFTs represent in the future? 

You don't want to miss this one. 

Brandon Arvanaghi is the CEO of Meow, which lets corporate treasuries play offense with their balance sheets by offering potential 4% yields via crypto lending. We discuss: 

I couldn't be more excited to have invested in Meow, and I think you'll understand why after listening. 

I only have one prediction to make for the next year: If you thought that 2021 was wild, 2022 will make it look normal.

The best is still yet to come.

Web3 is a vortex for talent, money, culture, and brainspace. I’ve been trying to figure out why, and explain it in the simplest terms. I think I have it, my tailwit explanation:

Web3 pushes out the Pareto Funtier.

The Pareto Funtier is the set of options at which you can’t have more fun without making less money or can’t make more money without having less fun. Web3 pushes it out by baking money into fun things and fun into money things.

We'll cover examples in play-to-earn gaming, NFTs, and DAOs.

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