Nothing in this podcast is financial advice. In this episode of The PinePod, Dartmouth Blockchain co-founders Charlie Ambrose and Aaron Xie chat with Azhar Hussain, Dartmouth alumnus of the class of 2019. Azhar began his career in the world of traditional finance before shifting to crypto, specifically on the venture capital side. In this pod, Azhar discusses this transition, gives early career advice, and shares his learnings in crypto and beyond.

Austin Federa, Head of Strategy and Communications at Solana

Dartmouth Blockchain Head of Core Charlie Ambrose joined BAF’s Presidents roundtable to discuss the current state and future of university blockchain clubs. Opening the chat, Charlie and the other club leads discuss plans for the semester as well as what the clubs were working towards this term. The club leads then chat on operating a blockchain club in a bear market — the trials of this and how clubs are overcoming. Finally, Charlie sheds some light on the projects Dartmouth Blockchain is working on this term before doing some Q&A!

In this TwitterSpace hosted by Blockchain Acceleration Foundation, our Head of Community Sunint Bindra serves as co-host with Rebecca Curry, President of Bentley Blockchain. They speak with Ayoung Jeon, Developer Relations at NEAR. Ayoung has also worked at Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and Skynet Labs. They discuss what differentiates NEAR from other L1 chains, what problems it solves, and crypto primitives optimized for the protocol, as well as the future roadmap of NEAR. They explore ways for students and blockchain clubs to get involved in the ecosystem and dive into hurdles of getting involved in Web3, enabling the importance of developer relations. They close off with the future outlook for NEAR and crypto broadly, exploring the adoption outlook for NEAR, new technical advancements of the protocol, and other trends and regulation in the space, wrapping up with an audience Q&A.

Reed tells his journey between graduating from Dartmouth in 2014 as an Earth Sciences major to his role with Customer Services at Swan Bitcoin.

Welcome to the PinePod. We here at Dartmouth blockchain are very excited to announce our podcast, the Dartmouth Blockchain PinePod.

In this first episode, we dive into a discussion with Sean MacMannis, former Head of Marketing at Gitcoin and Global Product Marketing Lead, Advertising at Pinterest. We discuss his transition from traditional marketing to marketing in the Web3 world as well as his experience as core member at Gitcoin during their transition from a corporation to a DAO. We also learn about his time at Dartmouth, advice for young people looking to enter the Web3 space as a career and the implementation of music in the Web3 ecosystem. We really enjoyed our conversation with Sean, and we hope you do also!