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ABOUT THIS EPISODEFor the next few episodes of Means of Creation, we are piloting a series of web3 explainers—unpacking some of the fundamental concepts of web3, from first principles. The goal is to explore various topics, trends, and projects that people want to learn more about but find confusing! Essentially, to ask the questions we’ve… Continue reading Means of Creation : DeFi Explained ft. Nat Eliason

ABOUT THIS EPISODEPinterest is often written off as a digital mood board used to inspire purchases and future plans—a place for its 444 million monthly users to share recipes, DIY craft projects, home décor ideas, beauty tutorials, fashion, or just about anything else. But in reality, Pinterest is a dark horse in the creator economy.… Continue reading Means of Creation : A Look Inside Pinterest’s Creator Strategy

ABOUT THIS EPISODEA recurring theme on this show has been creator and user empowerment—more specifically, how founders can build scalable businesses that don’t just extract value from their users, but instead, allow them to directly benefit from the value they help create. In the past, web2 gig economy marketplaces have had to be extractive—imposing higher… Continue reading Means of Creation : Braintrust’s Founders on How to Run a Decentralised Marketplace

ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this episode, we were joined by Erik Forman, the co-founder of The Drivers Cooperative, a driver-owned alternative to Uber and Lyft. Erik spoke about how he got interested in the labor movement, his experience organising workers, what it means to be a socialist entrepreneur, and what a modern labor movement could look… Continue reading Means of Creation : Should Creators Own Their Means of Creation?

ABOUT THIS EPISODENathan interviewed Li in this special episode of Means of Creation, where she talks about the $110M fund she recently raised with Jesse Walden and Spencer Noon of Variant. If you’re an avid fan of the show, you may have noticed how the podcast’s focus has shifted from platforms in the passion economy… Continue reading Means of Creation : Li Jin on the journey behind Variant’s new $110M fund to back the ownership economy

ABOUT THIS EPISODEPacky McCormick, author of Not Boring, one of the most widely-read analysts in tech. His newsletter now has more than 75k subscribers and he’s raised a fund to back startups he finds interesting. In this conversation, we focus on how Packy went from crypto-skeptic to writing a post almost every week about crypto.… Continue reading Means of Creation : Packy McCormick on Web3 (how he got sucked in)

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThe hype around crypto-native communities such as Loot and Nouns DAO have taken over all our Twitter feeds. But how do these communities arise and gather momentum? Our guest this week, Patrick Rivera, gives us an inside look into the social and financial motivations driving some of crypto’s most prominent communities. Being a… Continue reading Means of Creation : How Crypto Projects Like Loot are Rewriting the Playbook for Building Communities

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThe creator economy is in constant flux, with DAOs and NFTs currently having taken centre stage. Our guest this week, Kyle Chayka, is uniquely positioned to understand these shifts. As a writer covering technology and culture, he is simultaneously involved in three very different worlds: He is a contributing writer at The New… Continue reading Means of Creation : Understanding The Culture and Commerce Driving NFTs, with Kyle Chayka

ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn an increasingly platform-mediated world, platforms have outsized control over their participants—whether that’s app developers in the creator economy, or rideshare drivers in the gig economy. We’ve been trying to understand how this can be changed for the better—how platform participants can be made rightful stakeholders; bridging the gap between labor and capital.… Continue reading Means of Creation : Building a Driver-Owned Alternative to Uber and Lyft