The Web3 Podcast
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This is the podcast that simplifies Web3 and shines a light on the many talented founders, investors and thought leaders in the new frontier of the internet. Take a journey down the rabbit hole, to a world of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, Blockchains and the Metaverse, with your host Callum Woodcock.
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When it comes to the crypto markets, few people can claim to predict the future. On this episode, Callum is joined by two gentlemen who may be able to do just that....
AlgoDynamix is an innovative risk analytics company that detects disruptive events in global financial markets and anticipates price movements hours or days in advance of the event.
They enable asset managers to preserve their assets under management and improve multiple portfolio metrics including lower volatility and higher returns.
Links
Callum on Twitter
AlgoDynamix Website
The Web3 Podcast Website
Winefi on Twitter
Winefi's Website
Let's face it, Web3 is at an all time low. VCs aren't funding, HODLers aren't HODLing and BUIDLers... well, to be fair, they're still building.
So, given we are Europe's premier Web3 podcast, we thought it only right to try and shine some sunlight on what is a stubbornly bearish market by showing some real world Web3 use cases.
Callum is joined today by Simon Smith. Simon is the founder of Excalibur.fm and a sage on all things Web3.
Links
Callum on Twitter
The Web3 Podcast Website
Winefi on Twitter
Winefi's Website
In this episode, Callum is joined by Connor Kelley, the CEO and Co-Founder of Flaunt. Flaunt is an enterprise loyalty management platform that serves as a single entry point into web3 for brands and their customers.
Innovation is critical to driving repeat purchases, improving customer engagement, and unlocking new revenue streams. But today's web3 solutions are too complex and send customers all over the internet.
Flaunt enables brands to:
1. Create invested fans by giving customers ownership of branded digital assets
2. Foster community by connecting customers and giving them a voice
3. Generate rich customer experiences across mediums
With Flaunt, you can:
1. Create, manage, and integrate web3-powered programs
2. Sell or distribute tokens and reward your customers
3. Support unique benefits, community engagement, and a branded marketplace
4. Analyze performance and ROI impact
5. Test, learn, and scale
Links
Conor Kelley on LinkedIn
The Web3 Podcast
Callum on Twitter
Since the birth of the internet, shady characters have been seeking to piggyback off well known brands by squatting on domains, creating phishing websites, and infringing upon trade marks and copyright. In the often pseudonymous world of Web3, this problem is amplified.
In this episode, we talk to Daniel Greenberg and Scott Kenna of Lexsynergy. Lexsynergy guide brands through both traditional and Web3 spaces, providing strategic policy, streamlined domain management and world class assistance with domain recoveries and online brand protection.
Links:
1. Lexsynergy on Twitter
2. Daniel on LinkedIn
3. Scott on LinkedIn
4. Callum on Twitter
What do worldwide brands and personalities like Katy Perry, Sony, Samsung, Google, American Idol and World Poker Tour have in common? Well, they have all partnered with Theta Labs. Theta Labs is the company behind Theta Network, the leading chain for media and entertainment.
Our guest, Wes Levitt, has led the strategy for this groundbreaking time in Theta’s history. Callum and Wes discuss how Web3 can unlock value for existing content creators and platforms and how the future of digital entertainment lies in Web3.
Links:
1. Wes on Twitter
2. Theta Network on Twitter
3. Callum on Twitter
As if trading crypto wasn't hard enough anyway, investors often find themselves hunting around for the best prices. In this episode, Callum speaks to Jaimin Patel. Jaimin is the CEO and Founder of Caddi, a crypto-super app that that finds the best prices available for any token and allows users to execute trades from any web page in a click.
Callum and Jaimin talk crypto, building in a bear market and what it's like to live in a house with four other Web3 builders.
Social Links
1. Jaimin on Twitter
2. Callum on Twitter
3. Caddi Website
4. The Web3 Podcast Website
Social tokens are digital tokens (on a blockchain, obv) that allow creators to monetize experiences and services. In this episode, Callum welcome Ellie Li to the podcast. Ellie is an exited founder who now serves as the VP of Product and Operations at Roll. Roll allows users to create, earn, redeem, send and trade social tokens across the internet -- whether in Web 2.0 or Web3. It seems the future looks bright for content creators...
Social Links
1. Ellie on Twitter
2. Callum on Twitter
3. Roll's Website
4. Roll on Twitter
5. The Web3 Podcast Website
On 11th November 2022, FTX, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, filed for bankruptcy. Overnight, CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (then a 30-year old billionaire) went from crypto's darling to public enemy number one. Bizarrely, 'SBF' (as Sam was universally known) made the somewhat dubious decision to live Tweet the collapse of his company.
In SBF's own words: W H A T H A P P E N E D.
In an atmosphere of media and Twittersphere speculation, The Web3 Podcast brings back two of its most popular guests, Neal Rushton-King and Paddy Vance, to deep dive on what happened and what we can learn from it.
Social Links
Paddy on LinkedIn
Neal on LinkedIn
Min3 on Twitter
Paddy on Twitter
Callum on Twitter
The Web3 Podcast Website
Min3 Website
In this episode, Carlos Pereira (@cegapereira) of Bitkraft Ventures and Callum explore the Web3 gaming industry, looking at what the future holds and what sort of teams are going to build it.
Carlos is a Partner at Bitkraft Ventures, a global investment platform for gaming, Web3, and immersive technology.
Social Links
Carlos on Twitter (@cegapereira)
Callum / The Web3 Podcast on Twitter (@callumwooders)
The Web3 Podcast Website
Carlos' Recommendations
Invest Like The Best Podcast w/ Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Arthur Hayes
Howard Marks' 'Oak Tree Letters'
Every Amazon's Letter To Shareholders From 1997 to Today
Four Steps To Epiphany by Steve Blank (with a redbull or two!)
According to Chris (@castig), the core pillars of Web3 are decentralization, self-custody and building-in-public. Given many of us take those tenets for granted, isn't it weird that so much of Web3 community revolves around a centralized, privately owned and opaque platform like Discord?
In this episode, Chris and Callum debate this topic and hint at what comes next...
Chris' Recommendations
Take an improv class!
Social Links
1. Chris on Twitter
2. Console on Twitter
3. Callum on Twitter
4. The Web3 Podcast
In Web3, the metaphor of being 'pilled' refers to experiencing an epiphany of Web3's potential, and the burning desire to contribute to the development of this ecosystem. This epiphany is what led today's guests, Neal Rushton-King and Paddy Vance, to turn their backs on multi-decade careers at some of the world's most prestigious blue-chip companies.
Instead, Neal and Paddy are using a wealth of experience to build MIN3, a Web3 native consultancy disrupting outdated industries with new technology. Callum, Neal and Paddy discuss everything from the problems that Web3 tech solves to the threats, opportunities and potential that this space contains.
Neal and Paddy's Recommendations
1. Ray Dalio on debt cycles and the fourth turning.
2. Robert Breedlove
3. Luke Gromen
4. Raoul Pal
5. Anything that Marc Andreessen has to say about Web3.
Social Links
1. MIN3 on Twitter
2. Paddy on Twitter
3. MIN3's Website
4. Callum's Twitter
5. The Web3 Podcast Website
If it feels like Scandinavians are over-represented in the Web3 space, then you may have Filip Martinsson to thank/blame. Filip's company, Moralis, provides everything developers need to create, connect, and scale blockchain applications cross-chain. Essentially, they take care of the back end so you can focus on the front — reducing development time, cost and complexity.
Filip's Recommendations
1. Andreas Antonopoulous.
2. Moralis on YouTube
3. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
4. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
5. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa Torres
Social Links
1. Callum on Twitter
2. The Web3 Podcast
Dash ('Digital Cash') is one of the world's best known cryptocurrencies, famously forked from Bitcoin in 2014. Since then, the Dash ecosystem has matured, allowing users to pay everyone from their Grandma to their phone bill in Dash. Open-source, and run by a DAO, Dash represents the essence of Web3. In this episode, Callum catches up with Ivan Shumkov, Dash's Head of Engineering, to hear how the ecosystem has (and is) evolving.
Ivan's Recommendations
1. Visit the communities of the most active networks (Ivan recommends Polkadot and Substrate).
2. Protocol Labs Blog
3. Dash Blog
Social Links
1. Ivan's Twitter
2. Dash on Twitter
3. Dash.org
4. Callum's Twitter
5. The Web3 Podcast
Our Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by Moralis. Moralis provides everything developers need to create, connect, and scale blockchain applications cross-chain. They take care of the back end so you can focus on the front — reducing development time, cost and complexity.
In this episode, Callum catches up with an old friend from university, Xavier 'Xav' Parkhouse-Parker. Since leaving Cambridge, Xav has co-founded Cambridge Future Tech, a deep tech venture builder that helps turn academic inventions into thriving businesses.
Xav offers a fascinating perspective on where the Web3 space is headed, and what untapped opportunities exist for would-be Web3 entrepreneurs.
Xav's Recommendations
To learn about a new topic, immerse yourself in podcasts and YouTube playlists.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Social Links
Xav on LinkedIn
Cambridge Future Tech
Callum on Twitter
The Web3 Podcast
Few entrepreneurs have had such an interesting and diverse background as Jason Noronha. Having moved from financial consulting into running hostels, coffee shops and bars, into his own SaaS company and now putting time-based inventory on the blockchain, Jason shows no signs of slowing down.
In this episode, Callum sits down with Jason to hear his fascinating story, his philosophy for life and why he is so excited about Web3.
Jason's Recommendations
1. The same books came resonate differently at different times in your life. Books are not something you should aspire to conquer, but are there to be picked up and read.
2. The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
3. Punk6529 on Twitter
4. Raoul Pal and Punk6529 on the Metaverse
Social Links
1. Jason on Twitter
2. Akin on Twitter
3. Callum on Twitter
4. The Web3 Podcast
We've all been there. You find out about a new DAO or a new Web3 project, get excited and dive into the Discord to find out more. For all but the most dedicated Web3 adventurer, that's where the fun largely stops. Immediately, you are bombarded by information by people using pseudonyms. Every DAO has a different structure, different terminology and different rules. Getting up to speed can be overwhelming.
In this episode, Callum sits down with Mendes. Mendes is a Web3 veteran with five years of experience in the space, who has lately co-founded a new venture called Avenue. Avenue is a DAO collaboration and communication platform designed to rectify the disconnect between DAOs and their members, and solve many of the problems inherent to Discord.
Mendes' Recommendations
1. Co-Ownership as a Web3 Social Primitive by Chase Chapman
2. The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin
Social Links
1. Mendes on Twitter
2. Avenue on Twitter
3. Callum on Twitter
4. The Web3 Podcast Website
5. Avenue Website
For many of us, gaming offers us entertainment, fulfilment and an escape from reality. Web3 promises to make the experience of gaming more immersive than ever before. In this episode, Callum sits down with Niko Vuroi and Craig Dalrymple, two of the minds behind the iconic Facebook game FarmVille and now of Blockstars, a management simulation game powered by the Solana blockchain.
About Niko Vuori and Craig Dalrymple
Niko and Craig are respectively the Founder/CEO and Head of Community of Blockstars, a management simulation game on the Solana blockchain. Powered by a dual token economy, $ROC and $ROL, Blockstars gives you the chance to manage your band of Blockstars and build up your epic music empire.
Social Links
1. Blockstars website
2. Niko's Twitter
3. Craig's Twitter
4. Callum's Twitter
5. The Web3 Podcast website
Listening to a podcast about podcasting is pretty meta if you ask me, but that is exactly what this fascinating episode is about. Alexander Zwerner walks Callum through the evolution of the podcast landscape in Web3, and why we are headed towards a more equitable world for listeners and creators alike.
About Alexander Zwerner
Alexander is the Founder of Kickback.fm, a podcast-centric Web3 platform where you can fund, connect, & listen to earn. He’s spent five years in the audio industry, and most recently has helped build Bankless DAO's podcast hatchery.
Alex's Recommendations
Learn to code in Web3 with Crypto Zombies
A16Z Podcast
Bankless Podcast
Social Links
1. Alex on Twitter
2. Alex's Email: alexander@kickback.fm
3. Callum on Twitter
4. The Web3 Podcast website.
If Web3 itself is controversial, no topic is more controversial than the concept of Crypto-Anarchism. Decentralization and enhanced privacy permit journalists, victims of oppressive regimes and whistleblowers to act without fear of reprisal, but also allow criminals and other bad actors to do the same.
In this thought provoking episode, Callum sits down with AlexAnarcho to talk Monero, crypto-anarchy and why we need to adapt the way we think about freedom and technology.
About AlexAnarcho
Alex is a world-renowned privacy advocate and self-proclaimed 'crypto-anarchist'. He is also the founder of Tip XMR, a platform that allows streamers to accept and display tips in XMR. He is a regular speaker at conferences relating to Monero and Privacy, and is based in Germany.
Alex's Recommendations
1. Monero's Website
2. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Timothy C May
3. The Cypherpunk Manifesto
4. Sethforprivacy.com
5. Monero Subreddit
6. Monero.Observor
7. Monero Talk Podcast
8. Monero Community Workgroup
9. MoneroMumble.de (Alex's Podcast - German Language)
Social Links
1. Alex on Twitter
2. AlexAnarcho.Live
3. The Web3 Podcast
4. Callum (Host) on Twitter
It's every Web3 entrepreneur's dream to have a multi-million dollar, 300+ person company and run it all from wherever it is you decide to call home. For this episode's guest, that is reality. Callum talks to Jesse Anglen, Rapid Innovation's very down-to-earth CEO about building a world-beating business, team and culture.
About Jesse Anglen
Jesse Anglen is the CEO and co-founder of Rapid Innovation, a company that helps Web3 entrepreneurs build MVPs and supports them in going to market. He is an experienced entrepreneur and innovator, who has led Rapid Innovation from five to more than three hundred employees globally.
Jesse's Recommendations
1. Hire a Business Coach
2. Read all you can (he recommends Principles by Ray Dalio and The E-Myth by Michael Gerber).
3. Find people running great businesses, and emulate them
Social Links
1. Rapid Innovation's Website
2. Jesse's Twitter
3. Jesse's LinkedIn
4. Callum's Twitter (@CallumWooders)
5. The Web3 Podcast
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