This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Aliaksandr Hudzilin an Angel Investor

Aliaksandr "Sasha" Hudzilin, co-founder of Human Guild, is a blockchain and Web3 innovator focused on rebuilding the internet and navigating the fast-moving AI and crypto landscapes. He values cultural understanding, risk-taking, and personal balance through activities like hiking and reading.

Human Guild, co-founded by Aliaksandr "Sasha" Hudzilin, supports creators and developers in building sustainable Web3 projects on NEAR Protocol. NEAR is a scalable, developer-friendly blockchain designed to enable decentralized applications with low fees and high performance.

We spoke to Aliaksandr Hudzilin about Near and:

• Culturally understanding people locally


• Yin and yang


• Rebuilding the internet


• Blockchain being used for all kinds of use cases


• The AI space is moving really fast


• Pre-training to reasoning models


• Seeing cooler Web3 startups


• Navigating the law


• Building copycats


• Killing whales


• Risk capital


• Hiking, reading, staying healthy


• Learning Balance

Timestamps

00:00 – 03:20 : Intro

03:20 -- 06:50 : Making and keeping connections

06:50 -- 10:10 : Yin and yang

10:10 -- 24:50 : Opinions on blockchain apart from financial

24:50 -- 28:37 : Being airheaded

28:37 -- 31:10 : Fear

31:10 -- 45:30 : Advice for founders

45:30 -- 48:26 : Examples of Web3 investing

48:26 -- 54:50 : Removing that stigma

54:50 – 01:0:23 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Aliaksandr 'Sasha' Hudzilin.

Links:

• AI
• Angel List
• Anthropic
• Alexander Skidanov
• Apple
• Belarus
• Berlin Blockchain Week
• Bitcoin
• China
• Cisco
• CoinMarketCap
• Cosmos
• Electric Capital
• Ethereum
• Facebook
• Fraction AI
• Freddie Mercury
• FTX
• Google
• Human Guild
• India
• Intel
• Kleiner Perkins
• Konstantin Lomashuk
• Llama
• Meta
• MetaMask
• Mistral
• Moby Dick
• Monero
• Naval Ravikant
• Near
• Oneinch
• OpenAI
• Polkadot
• Queen
• San Francisco
• San Francisco Bay Area
• Sasha.page
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Sequoia
• Silicon Valley
• Single Store (Formerly MemSQL)
• Solana
• Sushiswap
• Telegram
• Tibetan Book of Dying and Living
• Uniswap
• VC The American Story
• XAI