Building At The Edges

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.

The USV Thesis & Investing in Consumer Crypto with Nick Grossman 01/25/2024

The Problem with Points 12/14/2023

Exploring Consumer Crypto with SC06 09/28/2023

Future Primitive and ERC-6551 06/01/2023

Boys Club: A Social Collective - Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins 05/25/2023

Turning Listeners into Tastemakers - David Greenstein 05/18/2023

The Inevitable Metaverse - Robin (aka SuperMassive) 05/11/2023

Music on the Internet - Matthew Chaim 05/04/2023

Ownership Economy with Variant 04/27/2023

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 diving into that thesis as Li shares her vision for the ownership economy one day leading us to the passion economy. We break down some of the narratives around decentralization and distributed ownership to analyze what is truly driving value in the space - what kind of ownership experiences do users actually want? Li and Jesse share their bedrock convictions in the ownership economy and Jesse gives his thoughts on token design as well as some frameworks to think about when designing a token. We also discuss tokens as products and token design as a consumer experience. To close out our conversation, Li and Jesse give us the inside scoop on their recent announcement, the Variant Founder Fellowship, as well as how early stage founders can get involved. FOLLOW US Jess: Li: Jesse: Seed Club: Variant Fund: LINKS TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:43 Welcome Li and Jesse 3:16 Ownership economy and passion economy 7:33 Turning users into owners with tokens 11:09 Why aren’t more products user-owned? 17:10 Do people actually want ownership? 20:17 The evolving culture of ownership 22:26 Bedrock convictions in the ownership economy 26:53 Tokens are products 32:16 Unpacking Jesse’s recent tweet 36:54 The Variant Founder Fellowship 41:12 Closing thoughts 41:52 Outro DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional. /episode/index/show/seedclub/id/26654994