In this episode of Builders Journey, Nicole d'Avis speaks to Alana Podrx leader of EVE wealth. A global community of women who share portfolios, co-invest and support each other in self-guided wealth management through peer-to-peer learning. Alana was part of Seed Clubs' third accelerator with the project EVE wealth. In our conversation, we discuss the journey of first deciding to introduce web3 concepts to the EVE wealth community, concrete ways of scaling and decentralizing content creation and community work, and her thought process through the evolution of launching a token. 

We sit down with Jeff Kauffman, leader of JUMP, a community of marketing and advertising professionals from top agencies, brands, and startups that are passionate about web3. Nicole and Jeff met and came through the Seed Club second accelerator together and have been in this wild web3 space for almost a year. In our conversation, we explore how he grew his community from web2 to web3, how he onboards members through generosity and empowerment, and how he is learning and building through the real technical challenges of being a web3 pioneer.

Today we have Jarrod Dicker on the Seed Club Podcast. Jarrod is one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of web3 and media. Having worked at the Huffington Post and the Washington Post, etc. In this conversation, we talk about the evolution of media, lessons learned from early social media, and web2. Then we ask Jarrod to look around the corner a little bit and see what the opportunity is for media brands in the web3 world. 

Today we sit down with Jack Spallone. Jack is an OG in the music and Web3 space. He has a ton of experience working at the edges with fun drops like $TAPE with RAC.  Jack looks at the emerging space in music and web3 at a level that very people do. In this episode, we talk about music copyright and how that relates to web3 music, and much more! 

Today we are joined by Seed Club alumni Flex Chapman and Commodore of Krause House, a DAO aiming to buy an NBA sports team. We talk about their backgrounds from the startup world and their journey into discovering DAOs. We talk about the way they look at onboarding people into their community. Their most recent and successful crowdfund on Mirror. Some of the edge cases when using Mirror. And why did they join the Seed Club Accelerator? What did they get out of it? 

Today we're joined by Nicole d'Avis, the lead educator who runs the accelerator program at Seed Club. We chat about what's been exciting at Seed Club over the last six months, and we dive deep into the accelerator program. Nicole helps us answer what the accelerator is and what it has to offer. We also learn about Nicole's journey into crypto and web3. 

Today we're joined by David Spinks. David is a lifelong practitioner of community building. In this episode, we start by talking about consumer empowerment and how the role of community has evolved as consumers have grown in power. Then we dive into the specifics of onboarding people, getting more people into communities, creating a sense of belonging, and what roles and infrastructure are required to be able to deliver on that long term. 

Two-part conversation! Today in part one, we are joined with Julian Weisser and Will Papper, who are two contributors apart of a group trying to buy the US constitution as we speak. We look into the process of setting an organization like this up. Part-two we bring on Sirsu, a member at Seed Club and a co-founder of multiple interesting projects like Cryptocookout and BlvkHvnd to discuss the well-warranted criticism around the political nature of the document, the potential racist nature of the document, and some other interesting critiques. 

Today we are joined by our dear friend Cooper Turley. Cooper is a co-founder at FWB, a venture partner at Variant Fund, and has his fingers in or around many of the leading DAO & social tokens you probably all heard of. This conversation is interesting. We talk about his initial inspiration for jumping into the social token space and contrast that to where things are today. We talk about the DAO landscape. We talk about the underbelly of token compensation and how Web3 communities and projects might want to develop and structure compensation in their DAOs 

Today we sit down with Jiho, Axie Infinity Co-founder and community lead. We dive into the story of both Jiho and Axie Infinity. What's it's like to manage one of the most considerable Discord servers in the world. We get into community design, how to grow, manage, incentivize and reward and give ownership to people creating value in the Axie community.