Ep 20 - Singing the Web3 Anthem with @songadaymann

Kayvon Tehranian is the CEO and Founder of Foundation, a platform that enables creators to use the blockchain to monetize their work and build new connections with collectors. Having worked as a creative technologist for over a decade, Tehranian started as a Software Engineer at Google and then held leadership positions at various startups before entering the rapidly evolving world of crypto. He is SUPER committed to building the new creative economy by harnessing the untapped potential of the internet, web3, and the metaverse.

Show Links: 
Kayvon on Twitter 
Foundation 
Foundation on Twitter 
Foundation IG 
Yatreda NFTs

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• The TILT on Substack
• Twitter
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• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

Jackson is standout community member and builder in the Web3/ Ethereum ecosystems. Since diving into the space at the start of the year, Jackson has taken it in their stride to be as helpful as can be in aiding others on their journey into the web3 ecosystem. In leading content and community for leading Ethereum wallet Rainbow, for many folks, Jackson is consistently a golden pot of helpful knowledge and kindness at the beginning of the rainbow colored path into web3. We loved sharing notes on what epic community building entails, and drilling into the layers of empathy that great community design really needs.

Show Links: 

• Jackson Dame on Twitter
• Jackson's website 
• Rainbow 
• Loot

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 Being named Forbes 30 Under 30 may be a pinnacle in the journey of life for some, but for Lucy Guo, she just keeps attacking life with dynamism and tenacity. After dropping out of Carnegie Mellon for the Thiel Fellowship, later becoming the first female product designer at Snapchat, Lucy co-founded Scale AI, a billion dollar startup, earning her 30 under 30 position. She now invests in startups through Backend Capital, and nurtures budding technologists through hackathons. 

Lucy's energetic AF and we had a super fun conversation with her. We discussed:

• Learning to code as a 7-year-old
• Her journey to becoming a tech founder
• Running Miami Hack Week + the resurgence of Miami as a tech hub
• NFT ownership + building relationships with artists
• Maximizing time as a super busy human
• Making it as a female in the tech space

Show Links:

• Lucy's Twitter
• Lucy's Website
• Backend Capital

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• @mahoney_magic

As ex-Creative Director + President of Summit Series: a global community and events company & the owners of Powder Mountain (North America's largest ski resort), and now immersed in the web3/DAO space, Alex spends most of his time thinking about better ways to organize human coordination and achieve shared goals for cultural production. He's also an advisor at Seedclub, Republic, and other orgs where he helps think about community as a moat. He's also crazy about crocs (the shoe...not the animal).

Our conversation with Alex is hellaa interesting and spans:

• The parallels between urban design + DAO community design
• Similarities between working with Summit and FWB
• Why community building is akin to gardening not architecture
• Designing for serendipitous experiences
• The future of DAOs
• Ideal event locations around the world

Show Links:

• Alex on Twitter
• Alex's Website
• FWB
• Jane Jacobs

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• The TILT on Substack
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• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

Produced for you, with love, in the decentralized metaverse/ Aotearoa NZ.

Matthew Chaim is a songwriter and musician based in Montreal, Canada. Matthew is now fully immersed in web3, creating and building communities that oscillate around music and art. He loves the harp, mindfulness, and aspires to hold an IRL songcamp in Hawaii ;)

Our conversation with Matthew is damn fun and traverses the topics of:

• Using web3 tools to distribute art and interact with value
• Elektra DAO as a web3 music/venture builder
• Gamifying web3 onboarding and artistry
• Why the conventional music industry is problematic
• Why web3 is better for songwriters, musicians + artists
• Songcamps vs bandcamps + the saxophone vs the harp

Show Links:

• Matthew Chaim on Twitter
• Matthew on Mirror
• Matthew on Instagram
• Songcamp
• Elektra
• Matthew's music

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• The TILT on Substack
• Twitter
• Instagram
• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

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Miguel is a 19-year-old maker who's currently working as a founding engineer at Showtime, a social network for digital art AKA NFTs. He's a relentless builder, and has so many side projects it's hard to keep up. He loves helping onboard mainstream folks to the world of web3, and at the end of the day, ultimately wants to work and hang out with people he loves.

Our conversation with Miguel is super joyful and traverses the topics of:

• His journey into web3 as an engineer
• Online communities + the Tech Optimists/Cabbage Crew
• Gen Zs in tech
• Onboarding newbies to web3
• The $MIGUEL token + exploring the potential of creator tokens
• Digital art + NFTs

Show Links:

• Miguel on Twitter
• Miguel's website
• Showtime
• Tech Optimists
• Gen Z Mafia

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• The TILT on Substack
• Twitter
• Instagram
• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

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Maria is a partner on the investment team at Electric Capital: an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. Prior to Electric, and as a Cornell + Harvard trained computer science engineer, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup in the supply chain space as well as having worked as a product manager at Microsoft. Maria is a great advocate for women, minority and immigrant founders in the tech space, especially in web3. She's also a Zoom TV producer... creating two reality shows during lockdown in 2020!

Our conversation with Maria is nourishing and empowering and traverses the topics of:

• Shifting from tech founder to investor in the crypto ecosystem
• NFT remixing and fundraising with NFTs
• The Global Creator Collaboration Studio
• Tokenized communities
• DAOs solving human coordination problems
• Founding femmes, non-binary + minority folk in the crypto space
• Creating the Zoom Bachelor + Bachelorette

Show Links:

• Maria on Twitter
• Zoom Bachelorette + Zoom Bachelor
• Electric Capital

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• The TILT on Substack
• Twitter
• Instagram
• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

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Gregory is co-founder and CEO of Regen Network, a blockchain company working on planetary regeneration with Regen Ledger, a blockchain to verify ecological states and offer a new paradigm around the ecosystem services market. Gregory has a super diverse background, from studying marine + terrestrial ecology in the Galapagos Islands, translating for Amazonian rainforest guides, fighting wildfires in the wilderness of Alaska, to living and co-creating eco-villages, and founding an ethical cacao company in Ecuador.

In this episode we traverse the topics of:

• The mission of Regen Network
• Ecological Regeneration
• Natural Capital + Ecosystem Services
• Carbon offsetting incentive systems
• Regenerative NFTs
• To ReWild or not to ReWild...
• Gregory's epic adventures tracking lobsters in the Galapagos + cacao in Ecuador

Show Links:

• Gregory's Twitter
• Regen Network
• Regen Network on Twitter

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• The TILT on Substack
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Jeremy Goldberg is a former Product Design Director on Messenger at Facebook. He helped lead Messenger’s early business & AI efforts, core chat features, safety and integrity tools, and design systems. Jeremy lives in New York and is exploring new product ideas in the NFT and 3D space.

This episode traverses:

• Why Jeremy made the leap to the Web3 space from his design director role at Facebook
• Why he's so excited about NFTs
• What's currently missing in the NFT space
• What needs to happen to make the space more user-friendly
• The power of memes
• The power and magic of high fidelity 3D worlds for showcasing NFTs
• Striking the balance between living in the real vs 3D/VR worlds
• Jeremy's favorite ways to ReWild + the Japanese Art Islands
• The power of color + gradients

Reach Jeremy on:

• Twitter
• His website

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 Alessa Berg is an impact driven entrepreneur, investor and strategist who exists at the nexus of web3 and impact. She is dedicated to driving mainstream adoption of impact + sustainability, as well as blockchain. Born in Switzerland, she is a super global citizen who weaves global impact and sustainability leaders together as founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact. TTI 's mission is to accelerate the mainstream adoption of impact and sustainability as the way of making investments and running companies. For Alessa and TTI, “impact” represents a positive paradigm shift towards a sustainable, equal and joyous society.

This episode traverses:

• Blockchain as a tool for building better planetary governance systems
• Alessa's early days investing in blockchain from the investor space
• The inception of Top Tier Impact
• Investing in the climate x impact space
• Her book 'Blockchain Mavericks' (coming out later this year)
• The intersectionality of climate and web3
• How Alessa stays balanced and grounded

Show Links:

• Alessa's Instagram 
• Alessa's Twitter 
• Top Tier Impact

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• The TILT on Substack
• Twitter
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• @blaiseturnbull
• @mahoney_magic

Produced for you, with love, in the decentralized metaverse/ Aotearoa NZ.