Max Howell is the Founder and CEO of Tea (https://tea.xyz). Backed by Acuitas Group Holdings, Betaworks Ventures, & more, Tea is unified packaging infrastructure—and through that packaging infrastructure, they have plans of leveraging blockchain to help remunerate devs for their contributions to OSS. In this episode we discuss Max’s illustrious history within the open-source movement as creator of Homebrew, how blockchains uniquely enable what web2 technologies can’t in the quest to remunerate open source contributors, Max’s best and most generalizable advice for building in web3, and much, much more.

Recorded Thursday July 20th, 2023.