Mint Season 6 episode 19 welcomes the co-founder and CEO of n.xyz, Sridhar Ramaswamy. This ex-Googler previously led the largest search engine’s $115 billion advertising division and has his eye on a new focus: blockchain data. With their debut launch this week, followed by an impressive series A led by Paradigm, we explore how he’s building web3’s indexer of choice and how his time at Google lead to where he is today.

I hope you guys enjoy our conversation.  

Time Stamps

• 00:13 - Intro
• 04:27 - What It's Like Managing Over 10,000 People and $100 Billion in Revenue
• 06:32 - Leaving Google to Start Neeva
• 09:20 - The Birth of Web3 Neeva
• 16:10 - Less Obvious Applications Using the Power of Neeva
• 17:41 - Web2 Search Versus Web3 Search
• 20:36 - End User Blockchain Search
• 22:57 - On-Chain SEO
• 24:20 - The Future of Advertising in Web3
• 30:15 - The Emergence of New Tech and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
• 32:33 - The Next Trend for Neeva to Tackle
• 35:02 - The World of On-Chain Data
• 39:55 - Thoughts Around Data Access in Web3 Versus Web2 
• 43:04 - Outro

Additional Resources

• Sridhar’s Twitter
• n.xyz
• Episode Timestamps and Transcripts

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