#48: Henri Stern, Co-Founder & CEO @ Privy | How they built a tool that brings web2-caliber UX to web3 products
Description
Henri is an ex-research scientist at Protocol Labs. He Co-Founded Privy, which provides web3 projects such as Friend.tech, t2 & Shibuya with seamless onboarding & embedded wallets.
In this episode, we dive into the early MVPs of Privy, learn how it works under the hood, how they managed to design such as smooth UX & more.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A few words of intro
01:56 : Why Henri started working on Privy
06:02 The early days of Privy
11:37 How have they built their MVP
13:15 Why did they make a pivot despite having an interest in their product
15:41 Which features helped them to tip the scales
22:34 How Privy works under the hood
34:04 Most wallets were built with L1s in mind
37:23 How do embedded wallets work
48:24 What would happen with wallets if Privy went out of business
50:36 How do they acquire their users
53:24 What kind of metrics do they follow
57:59 How does the world look like if Privy fulfilled its mission
1:04:25 Where people can learn more about Privy
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