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Building At The Edges
by Seed Club
In Building At The Edges, Jess Sloss, instigator at Seed Club, holds intimate conversations with top innovators building irresistible web3 communities. We surface insights from DAO experiments and dig into decentralization's dual challenges and opportunities. Web3 unlocks novel mechanisms for people, not platforms, to capture the value created online. Building At The Edges is where we sense-make the high-velocity design space at the intersection of crypto and community.
Episodes
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The USV Thesis & Investing in Consumer Crypto with Nick Grossman
Jess chats with Nick Grossman, Partner at Union Square Ventures, to explore USV's investment theses. They delve into how USV tackles significant markets undergoing transformative pressures, spanning social networks, vertical networks, crypto, and climate in order to identify opportunities at the...
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The Problem with Points
Jess sits down with Brian Flynn, Founder and CEO of Rabbithole (https://rabbithole.gg/) to talk about the rise of points, the challenges they present, and some insights from building in consumer crypto in 2023.
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Exploring Consumer Crypto with SC06
A look at the people and products in SC06, Seed Club's Consumer Crypto Accelerator featuring... Host: Jess Sloss Guests: Patrick Rivera, Steph Alinsug, Sam Spike, Ed Fornieles, Ren Stern, Jessica Van Meir, wijuwiju.eth, plus7, Thomas Chen, Ryan Hamilton, Ryan McMahill, Adi Sideman, Lucas Campbell...
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Future Primitive and ERC-6551
Jess sits down with Benny Giang and Jayden Windle from Future Primitive to talk about ERC-6551, a new token standard that enables every NFT to have its own wallet. In this conversation, they break down how an EIP works, why they chose to identify the Future Primitive brand so heavily with an EIP,...
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Boys Club: A Social Collective - Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins, co-founders of Boys Club, a social collective bringing new voices to the internet. We break down the structure of Boys Club, how the DAO fits into the larger brand, how the brand can become profitable, and...
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Turning Listeners into Tastemakers - David Greenstein
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with David Greenstein, co-founder of Sound, to talk about how Sound is creating better incentive alignment in the music industry. David shares why he co-founded Sound, how the project has evolved over time and what we can expect to see in their...
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The Inevitable Metaverse - Robin (aka SuperMassive)
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Robin (aka SuperMassive) to discuss the intersection of storytelling and web3 tech. Robin tells us about his experience as a filmmaker over the past 20 years and how the advancement of technology has impacted his career. We talk about the...
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Music on the Internet - Matthew Chaim
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Matthew Chaim of Songcamp to discuss the intersection of music and web3 tech. Matthew shares how Songcamp has evolved over time, and what his experience has been like leading a decentralized music collective. We cover topics like…
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Ownership Economy with Variant
On this episode of Building at the Edges we sit down with Li Jin and Jesse Walden, Co-founders and General Partners at Variant Fund. Variant Fund is an early stage fund investing in web3 that believes the next generation of the internet will transform users into owners. We kickoff the episode by...
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Special Episode: Inside FWB's New App
On this bonus episode of Building at the Edges, Jess sits down with Alex Zhang and Mike Bodge from Friends with Benefits to get the inside scoop on their new app - a reimagining of social media without the ads, algorithms, or spam bots. Alex and Mike explain how the app came to be, and how they...
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Heterarchy: a Structure for DAOs
On this episode of Building at the Edges, Jess sits down with Yancey Strickler from Metalabel to discuss the new era of digital records, the egalitarian structure of Metalabel, and the true value of creation. They dive into what Metalabel unlocks for creators and explore how Metalabel utilizes a...
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Building Public Goods in Down Cycles — Scott Moore
Down cycles clarify true product market fit, especially in highly financialized industries like crypto. In this episode of Building At The Edges, Jess sits down with Scott Moore, co-founder of Gitcoin, to discuss insights from building the leading web3 grant funding DAO. FOLLOW US Jess:...
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From the Archive: Community Tokens, No Cap — Derek Schloss
We're taking a brief winter break and will be back soon with new episodes of Building at the Edges. In the meantime, enjoy this episode from the archive. For our final episode of Season 2, we return to web3 first principles: community tokens create yet-unrealized opportunities within an...
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From the Archive: DAOs All The Way Down — Aaron Wright
We're taking a brief winter break and will be back soon with new episodes of Building at the Edges. In the meantime, enjoy this episode from the archive. First Club episode! We talk with Aaron Wright, the co-founder of OpenLaw, the team behind the LAO, Flamingo DAO, Neptune DAO, and more. We talk...
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How To Build A DAO's Brand — Peace Node
Jess sits down with our very own Peace Node, the anon behind the indelible Seed Club brand. They talk through the unique discipline that is building a DAO's brand — a project that expands beyond the traditional modality of creating a static style kit. DAOs turn branding from single player to...
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DAOs Are Public Goods — Kevin Owocki
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin. Earlier this year, Gitcoin transitioned from the original company structure to a DAO, and Kevin exited from his leadership role to cede full governance over to the token holders. In this episode, Kevin and Jess talk through the road that led him there and…
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Sufficient Decentralization — Dan Romero
Dan Romero is the co-founder of Farcaster, the decentralized social network that many in crypto are turning to as a Twitter alternative. Jess and Dan explore what it means to be a decentralized social network in 2022, the critical differences between stewarding an open protocol and a client, the...
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The Nouns DAO Evangelist — Jacob Horne
Nouns DAOs are having a moment in the spotlight, with Jacob Horne —founder of Zora — as one of the more prominent evangelists. In this conversation, Jess and Jacob discuss a core question: Why are ERC721 tokens (NFTs) a more compelling form of ownership than ERC20s? They explore the connection...
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NFTs As Story Moments — Justin Alanis
Justin Alanis is the founder of StoryDAO, an IP incubation hub and multi-media storytelling platform with community at the core. Justin argues for a rethinking of our NFT interactions as experiences in the stories themselves. With StoryDAO, he's hoping to create and incubate fresh stories told by...
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DAOs After Lifestyle — Toby Shorin
Are DAOs the logical evolution of a post-lifestyle culture? Toby Shorin is the co-founder of Other Internet, and author of the recent essay Life After Lifestyle. In this conversation, Steph (Media Steward) sits in for Jess while he's AFK. Toby and Steph explore DAOs as subcultures within a...
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DAOs Need Co-Created Structures — David Ehrlichman
Web3 networks, from DAOs to tokenized communities to metalabels, have so much to learn from the work of David Ehrlichman. He's the author of Impact Networks, and co-founder of Converge and Hats Protocol. Pulling from his experience in decentralized organizing, David walks us through the…
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Ownership As Citizenship — Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider is a teacher in Media Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he runs the Media Enterprise Design Lab. He's the originator of the "exit-to-community" meme, and as the co-founder of Start.Coop, Nathan thinks deeply about what crypto can learn from the long history…
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Reuben Bramanathan — Reimagining Organizations
Internet native organizations — whether we call them DAOs, tokenized communities, metalabels, or other — are novel organizational containers allowing people to collaborate in previously impossible ways. Rueben Bramanathan is a General Partner at Ideo CoLab Ventures, and he believes in the power…
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Investing In Passion — Gaby Goldberg
Having survived the last transition from bull to bear, today's community-owned networks are discovering the merits of curated communities aligning around shared passion. In episode 2 of Building At The Edges, Jess explores the future of value creation through the lens of passion with guest Gaby...
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The Power of Multilayered Experiences — Marty Bell
In our Season 3 kick-off episode, Jess sits down with Marty Bell, founder of Poolsuite, for an inside look into the Poolsuite universe. Poolsuite is one of those irresistible brands that's nearly impossible to explain. That's partially due to the precisely executed, multilayered experiences…
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Incentivizing Contrarianism — David Phelps
David Phelps is the co-founder of JokeDAO, a governance platform for decentralized, bottom-up governance. In a recent essay collaboration on Not Boring, David takes a stand against consensus in DAO governance. He argues that forking — more specifically, contrarian opinions — presents a more...
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Minimizing Governance — Pet3rpan
Pet3rpan is in an investor at 1kx, an early-stage crypto fund. DAOs have a strategy problem, conflating decentralization with structurelessness. In practice, Pet3rpan sees an opportunity to start with governance constraints and then build toward governance minimization. Decentralized coordination...
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Scaling Socialware — Julia Rosenberg
Julia Rosenberg is the co-founder and chief pod officer of Metropolis (formerly Orca). Metropolis is the trustware layer for scaling socialware: pods. Pods build on the embedded socialware within small groups of people, creating an automated container for coordination. Jess and Julia explore...
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Allocating Treasuries — Jango
Jango is a developer at Juicebox, a protocol for community fundraising. Web3 coordination often exists at the intersection of large treasuries. Innovative means of capital allocation is one of the most promising crypto design spaces. Jess and Jango discuss automated funding mechanisms, the use…
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Builders Journey - Joy Howard (Early Majority)
Joy and I discussed how her mindsets from her time as a musician inform her current work as a founder in web3, her philosophy on what a member-owned apparel community will look like, her approach to good growth, and the way they are iterating with their community as they bring their physical...
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Builders Journey - Natasha & Deana (Boys Club)
In this episode, Nicole speaks with Deana and Natasha from the Boys Club founding team. Natasha and Deana shared a multifaceted look at the evolution of taking a DAO From 0 to 1, including the genesis of a leadership team, the work behind their first membership NFT launch, and lessons learned…
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Community Tokens, No Cap - Derek Schloss
For our final episode of Season 2, we return to web3 first principles: community tokens create yet-unrealized opportunities within an immeasurable design space at the intersection of culture, ownership, and value creation. The realization of these opportunities is inevitable — but the timeline…
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Are We Ready For Network Ownership? - Mason Nystrom
"The next generation of internet protocols and platforms and applications will be owned and operated by their users." Mason Nystrom is an investment partner at Variant Fund, and he – like Seed Club – firmly believes in this bright version of our collective future. In this episode, Jess and Mason...
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Builders Journey - Bas Grasmeyer, Jeremy Grinberg (COLORS DAO)
In this episode, Nicole speaks with Bas Grasmeyer and Jeremy Grinberg from the COLORS DAO founding team. Colors is a global community of creatives supporting each other across disciplines, building off Colors Studio, the global music talent showcase, and discovery community. Bas and Jeremy...
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The Leading Web3 Accelerator - Nicole D'Avis
We've got a special episode of Club Pod with Seed Club Co-Creators Jess Sloss and Nicole d'Avis. Jess and Nicole recorded the episode late on a very hot summer Friday to bring us a comprehensive exploration of what we can expect for SC05. We hear about the thoughtful, significant changes to the...
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Community Token Insights from Local Currencies, Loyalty Points, and Web3 Media - Joon Ian Wong
The core value at Seed Club is our network, which traces its origin to its nascent days in crypto. Wong Joon Ian is one of Seed Club's earliest co-conspirators. He's a shining example of the "thoughtfully" in lets f*cking thoughtfully go – integrating historical insights from the physical world...
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Builders Journey - Gabriel Tumlos (Mochi)
In this episode, We spoke with Gabriel Tumlos from the Mochi founding team. Mochi is a team-based goal-setting game focused on collective accountability and growth. Gabriel shares how the idea for Mochi evolved through multiple crypto cycles and the different approaches to building community…
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What if the internet could curate the Smithsonian? - Thomas McLeod
The questions motivating Arkive are not distinct to the needs of a decentralized museum — they're universally resonate considerations for anyone building community-owned networks in web3. Tom McLeod is the executive director of Arkive, the self-proclaimed "last museum" and simultaneous first-ever...
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How NFT NOW Is Building The Future of Media in Web3- Matt Medved
In this episode, we sit down with Matt Medved, co-founder of NFT NOW. We talk about his experience building media brands in the legacy world, having worked at Billboard and Spin Magazine, and how that has informed what he is doing with NFT NOW stepping into the web3 space. We talk about how DAOs...
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Builders Journey - Jonathan Mann (SongaDAO)
Nicole d'Avis sits down with Jonathan Mann, aka songadayman, aka the founder of SongaDAO. It turns out they have been in the same music/crypto circles for 5+ years, on similar tracks, though just connected in the last year, so it was cool to look back at shared history. They explored the genesis…
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Building a DAO for the Long Term - Ben Jacobs
Today we have Seed Club's very own Ben Jacobs on the podcast. Ben was one of the earliest contributors at Seed Club. In this episode, we talk about his inception and involvement in SC. We talk about some big lessons that we've learned. Some contrarian points of view. This conversation feels like...
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OG Web3 Builder - Steve Klebanoff
In this episode, we sit down with Steve Klebanoff. Steve is a developer. He's worked at 0x protocol. He's been involved with several NFT experiments in the generative artspace and is an advisor to Artblocks and, most recently, a core contributor at Party DAO. We talked about his early days…
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The Rabbit Hole That Is Nouns DAO - Brian Flynn
Today we have Brian Flynn, CEO, and co-founder of Rabbit Hole. Brian is a dear friend who helped inspire the birth of Seed Club. In this episode, we dig into reputation, DAO tools, what we get right, and what we get wrong. How do we ultimately scale DAOs from 50 people collaborating with each…
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Mad Realities - Devin Lewtan
Today we're joined by Devin Lewtan, the co-founder of Mad Realities, the world's first interactive dating show where the community decides what happens. We get into Devin's educational background and journey from creating NYU girls roasting tech guys on the clubhouse app to building Mad…
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Creative Coding & Generative Artwork - 0xDEAFBEEF
Today we are joined by generative audio-visual artist DEAFBEEF. In this episode, we get into how DEAFBEEF got into creative coding and making generative art. What makes gen art so special, especially when paired with the blockchain. We dive into lessons from zero to one and how he has navigated...
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Why We Need Web3 Social - Stani Kulechov
Today we are joined by Stani Kulechov. Who is the founder of Aave and the Lens protocol. Stani has been a builder for years in the Ethereum ecosystem and today we explore the value of constraints when building products. How to create open permissive contribution opportunities in DAOs. The role...
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Building Cool Shit With Cool People - Joey DeBruin
Today we have Joey DeBruin on the podcast. Joey is the co-founder of Backdrop and has been a long-time conversation thought partner of Jess Sloss. We talk about Backdrop's initial intention when building and has that has evolved. The idea of impermanence when building web3 products and platforms...
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Reputation, Governance, Token Models, and Station - Tina He
Today we bring you a conversation with Tina He, product designer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Station. We got into some big topics: reputation, governance, token economic models, and Station. A web3 data toolkit focused on showcasing contributors' history of contributions and making that...
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The OG Web3 Crypto Sage - Kristen Stone
Kristen Stone is our guest on episode two of the Seed Club podcast. Kristen was an early employee at Coinbase, has recently spent her time at Balancer Labs, and works at Seed Club on operations. In this conversation, we get into some of Kristen's hard-fought lessons being the 50th employee at...
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LinksDAO - Mike Dudas
Welcome to season two, episode one of the Seed Club podcast. In this episode, Jess Sloss sits down with Mike Dudas, Instigator, and creator at LinksDAO, a DAO aiming to buy and operate a golf course. We learn about the Links DAO origin story and, how they operate given the regulatory grey market…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In Building At The Edges, Jess Sloss, instigator at Seed Club, holds intimate conversations with top innovators building irresistible web3 communities. We surface insights from DAO experiments and dig into decentralization's dual challenges and opportunities. Web3 unlocks novel mechanisms for people, not platforms, to capture the value created online. Building At The Edges is where we sense-make the high-velocity design space at the intersection of crypto and community.
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