BONUS ICYMI: A Conversation with Pifafu from OP Labs (First Aired as an episode of TNS RETRO RADIO Twitter Spaces)

On this bonus episode for the ZEROPOD feed, we are re-broadcasting a conversation with Pifafu from OP Labs that took place on our weekly RETRO RADIO Twitter Spaces all about retroactive public goods funding from Optimism, Gitcoin, Nouns and others. Pif takes us through her career, including stints at Patreon and GitHub before joining OP Labs, and talks about why she thinks what Optimism is doing with RetroPGF is so important. We hope you enjoy! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:31 - Starting at a “Fake Startup” 04:05 - Patreon 05:31 - GitHub 08:00 - The importance of reputation tracking in crypto space 10:30 - Building infra for yourselves, open sourcing it for others 12:00 - The Github Commit Chart 14:00 - Commit Chart Controversy! 24:00 - The importance of having data available on your community 26:17 - Nouns Agora is the new LinkedIn? 29:54 - OP Labs role 31:13 - Many hats at first 32:20 - Designed Onchain application process for RetroPGF, cumulative design 34:57 - Binji’s “Financial martyrdom problem” 37:08 - Making public goods profitable. 38:50 - What is Retro PGF in a nutshell? 44:00 - The Contributions Repo 45:00 - What kind of contributions can help the Collective? 47:00 - The Literal OP Flywheel 51:00 - OP Winning the L2 Vibes War 54:00 - Outro!