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.

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. 

A look at the people and products in SC06, Seed Club’s Consumer Crypto Accelerator

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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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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.

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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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.

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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LINKS

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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.

On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Robin (aka SuperMassive) to discuss the intersection of storytelling and web3 tech. Robin tells us about his experience as a filmmaker over the past 20 years and how the advancement of technology has impacted his career. We talk about the implications and inevitability of the Metaverse - what Robin describes as “the internet built by game developers.” He walks us through everything he’s working on at BasedAF including the groundbreaking way he’s utilizing Unreal Engine to create instant motion capture, and we dive into his takes on co-creation, storytelling, and the web3/crypto industry at large. 

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LINKS

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https://linktr.ee/based_af 

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 

5:56 The state of the filmmaking industry

12:16 Robin’s thoughts on NFTs

13:55 Thoughts on the Metaverse

18:52 The inevitability of the Metaverse

25:53 What Robin is currently creating

38:31 The business side of BasedAF

43:55 The valuation of IP

47:11 Co-creation

54:58 Storytelling

1:07 Outro

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On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Matthew Chaim of Songcamp to discuss the intersection of music and web3 tech. Matthew shares how Songcamp has evolved over time, and what his experience has been like leading a decentralized music collective. 

We cover topics like tastemaking as an individual vs. tastemaking as a collective, the value and challenge of leadership in DAOs, the concept of a headless band, and the intersection of music and NFTs - a space Matthew believes is still being defined. 

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LINKS

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https://songcamp.mirror.xyz/ 

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:23 Songcamp

4:39 The success of Camps

9:18 Experimenting at the edges of tech

18:55 Collective tastemaking

22:23 The challenge of collective consistency

25:07 What is a headless band?

27:46 Is Songcamp a music label?

33:22 Music NFTs

36:37 What’s next for Songcamp?

39:41 Outro

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On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Li Jin and Jesse Walden, Co-founders and General Partners at Variant Fund. Variant Fund is an early stage fund investing in web3 that believes the next generation of the internet will transform users into owners.

We kickoff the episode by diving into that thesis as Li shares her vision for the ownership economy one day leading us to the passion economy. We break down some of the narratives around decentralization and distributed ownership to analyze what is truly driving value in the space - what kind of ownership experiences do users actually want?

Li and Jesse share their bedrock convictions in the ownership economy and Jesse gives his thoughts on token design as well as some frameworks to think about when designing a token. We also discuss tokens as products and token design as a consumer experience. 

To close out our conversation, Li and Jesse give us the inside scoop on their recent announcement, the Variant Founder Fellowship, as well as how early stage founders can get involved. 

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Variant Fund: https://twitter.com/variantfund 

LINKS

https://www.seedclub.xyz/ 

https://variant.fund/  

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:43 Welcome Li and Jesse

3:16 Ownership economy and passion economy

7:33 Turning users into owners with tokens

11:09 Why aren’t more products user-owned?

17:10 Do people actually want ownership?

20:17 The evolving culture of ownership

22:26 Bedrock convictions in the ownership economy

26:53 Tokens are products

32:16 Unpacking Jesse’s recent tweet

36:54 The Variant Founder Fellowship

41:12 Closing thoughts

41:52 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.

On this bonus episode of Building at the Edges, Jess sits down with Alex Zhang and Mike Bodge from Friends with Benefits to get the inside scoop on their new app - a reimagining of social media without the ads, algorithms, or spam bots.

Alex and Mike explain how the app came to be, and how they built it with the FWB community alongside them every step of the way. They share what they feel is lacking in the current social media landscape and how they envision this new app creating a cozy place on the internet that’s optimized for meaningful connection and positive group dynamics.

They wrap up the episode looking to the future as Alex and Mike share how they envision the app evolving over time.

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Alex: https://twitter.com/alexzhang__

Mike: https://twitter.com/mikebodge

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:49 FWB’s new app

5:39 What does this mean for the future of FWB?

10:37 Building in alignment with your community

18:21 User experience of the app

19:53 Design choices

30:42 Long term goals

39:37 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.