Growing Web3

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we catch up with Raz, CEO of guild.xyz, about his journey into web3 and the focus of his project on building communities and access control for DAOs.

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Topics:

* Creating Authentic and Genuine Culture

* Raz's Exploration of Web3

* Importance of Exclusivity and Value Proposition

* Building Personalized Experiences in Web3

* Advantages of Organic Community Building

* Role of Founders in Community Success

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction02:29 Raz's Journey into Web309:53 Exclusivity & Value Proposition16:57 Personalized Experiences in Web319:14 Building Good Community Culture19:48 Crafting Genuine Communities21:11 High Barriers & Exclusivity26:48 Organic Community Building29:54 Founder Involvement in Communities

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Sponsors: Hype Partners:

https://www.hy.pe/

Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we catch up with Jake Stott, CEO of Hype and a successful SaaS entrepreneur, about his journey into Web3.

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Topics:

* Jakes Journey into Web3

* Differences between Web3 and Web2 startups

* Importance of community building

* Evolution of social media platforms in Web3

* Launching tokens and building successful Web3 projects

* Incentivizing community and capturing a wider audience

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Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction02:33 Jake's Journey into Web 306:02 Launching a Web 3 Startup11:31 Mindshare and Value in Web 313:01 Incubate: A New Web 3 Incubator20:32 Community Building23:40 Engaged Community vs Large Community27:04 Involvement of Founders in Community Building30:50 Building a Narrative Around a Project48:27 Outro: Challenges of NFT Communities

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Sponsors: Hype Partners: ⁠https://www.hy.pe/⁠

Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

Firstly, sorry for the bad sound on my side! My mic broke just before the call - it won’t happen again, we managed to get the episode up with some help from AI…

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, I catch up with Jackson, of 3rm. We explore the best ways to sell in web3 and dig into the tools and strategies that the best web3 organisations use to grow. Topics:

- Web3 BD tools - How to reach out to projects at scale - How to do cold outreach right - Building effective partnerships - The future of web3 BD with emerging social platforms

Sponsored by: Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we catch up with Brian Flynn, CEO of RabbitHole.

Here Brian explores early social token, DAO, and NFT use cases and how these protocol utilities will evolve as the web3 industry matures.
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Topics:
- On-demand delivery & early beginnings in tech
- The early smart contract marketplace
- Decentralised application layers vs investment class
- Future of NFTs and subscription/SaaS implementation
- And more
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Follow Brian Flynn:
Here
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:10) Initial interest in Web3 & background
(05:37) Early DeFi Protocols
(09:10) Future of NFTs and subscription/SaaS implementation
(10:57) Web3 protocol focus
(13:32) Uniswap airdrop second order impacts
(16:30) Token models - users vs VCs
(18:05) Key Web3 trends
(20:01) Airdrop remodelling
(22:28) If Brian could be CMO of any other Web3 protocol
(24:02) Protocol replication vs innovation
(25:07) Outro
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Sponsors:
Hype Partners: https://www.hy.pe/

Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we catch up with Matt Galligan, Co-founder of XMTP Labs. Matt breaks down governance proposals and structuring, and what this may mean for the future of Web3.

Topics:

- Matt’s beginnings

- XMTP Labs and wallet-to-wallet breakdown

- Communication fragmentation issues

- Email protocol 

- Community integration and growth strategy

- And more

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Matt’s beginnings

(07:48) XMTP Labs and wallet-to-wallet breakdown

(12:11) Communication fragmentation

(14:45) Email protocol

(20:28) Community integration and growth

(26:20) The future of XMTP

(35:40) Growth marketing for another protocol

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Sponsors:

Hype Partners:

https://www.hy.pe/ Brought to you by Hype Partners.

Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we catch up with Nick Cannon, VP of Growth at Gauntlet Network. Nick breaks down governance proposals and structuring, and what this may mean for the future of Web3.

Topics:

- Governance structure, proposals, and mechanics

- Gauntlet Network

- NFT projects

- And more

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https://twitter.com/inkymaze Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:10 Initial interest in Web3 & background

03:45 Gauntlet Network

09:00 Governance forums and fostering interest from protocols

12:00 Structuring governance proposals

22:50 NFT projects implementing governance

26:22 Which community interests you as CMO?

27:33 Outro

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Sponsors:

Hype Partners:

https://www.hy.pe/ Brought to you by Hype Partners.

Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we catch up with 0xJustice, DAO Operator and governance at BanklessDAO, Collectparticle, 0xPolygonDAO, EthAdoptionDAO, & wgmicommunity.

0xJustice breaks down DAOs, and explores governance structures of the past, present, and future.

Topics:

• DAO contributor funnels
• DAO users vs community members
• Future DAO development opportunities
• And more

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https://twitter.com/singularityhack

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:45 What is a DAO Operator?

03:45 DAO Contributor funnels

10:50 DAO users vs community members

23:32 DAO governance

30:55 Which DAO will be most successful in 5 years?

35:26 Vampire attacks

37:16 Closing comments

38:5 Outro --

Sponsors:

Hype Partners: https://www.hy.pe/

Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we’re talking to Richard Chen, General Partner at 1confirmation. Richard is here to discuss all things growth, and more specifically how Web3 scale differs from its predecessor Web2.

In this conversation, Richard talks about how he got started in the space, how funding is exeleraating growth, and what he expects to see as the ecosystem expands over the coming years.

Topics: 

• Richard Chen’s background
• Core DeFi primitives 
• NFT metric tracking 
• Web2 v. Web3 growth
• Current opportunities
• And more

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Sponsors: 

Hype Partners: https://www.hy.pe/

Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we’re talking to WalletConnect Founder Pedro, who is here to talk about the future of wallets, identity, and digital ownership.

In this conversation, Pedro talks about Web3 wallet beginnings and how leaders such as MetaMask paved the way. Pedro explains how he got started and the opportunities he was able to maximise by being agile.

Topics:

• past, present, and future Web3 wallet use-cases
• How to maximise wallet adoption
• How wallets can and will become more than just ownership (identity proofs)
• And more

Follow Pedro: here

Sponsors: Hype Partners: https://www.hy.pe/ Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

In today’s episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we’re talking to Community Architect Rafa, who is here to talk about Web3 community building and the future of organisational structures.

In this conversation, Rafa talks about Web3 labour formations and how we can better collaborate for the future.

Topics: 

• The future of DAOs
• Builder challenges
• What is Folklore?
• Experimentation in operational models
• What restructuring the workforce may look like in the near future
• And more 

Follow Rafa: https://twitter.com/rafathebuilder

Sponsors: 

Hype Partners: https://www.hy.pe/

Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cutting-edge creative, community, and growth campaigns.