Web3 Episodes

June 23, 2023

226: Pursuit of Happiness | Neal Peters, JR Studio and Giving Game Cr…

Neal Peters is co-founder and CEO of JR Studio, a frictionless web3 gaming platform that gives game creators the superpowers to build, host, launch, manage, and grow their games and communities.

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June 20, 2023

225: California Love | Federico Panisi, Loki.code and Smart Contracts…

Federico Panisi is a co-founder and CEO of Loki.code, enabling simplified and intuitive co-creation of smart contracts with a collaborative web app for smart contract designers and developers.

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June 16, 2023

224: Power to the People | Tatiana Botskina, Mintycode and Fixing Ope…

Tatiana Botskina is the founder and CEO of Mintycode, a decentralized IP marketplace for software creators, bringing together software creators, software buyers, and software contributors. By building communities around software creators’ source code and enabling shared ownership, Mintycode helps software …

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June 9, 2023

223: Eye Know | Terence Reilly, OLTA and the Art of the Creator Proto…

Terence Reilly is the co-founder and CEO of OLTA, a protocol for creators and studios to create dynamic media, pushing the boundaries from generative art into interactive art and story. OLTA brings this all to life through dynamic NFTs which …

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June 2, 2023

222: Trust | Javier Tamashiro, Ospree and Crypto Compliance Made Simp…

Javier Tamashiro is the co-founder and CEO of Ospree, a comprehensive anti-money laundering compliance solution for Virtual Asset Service Providers that seamlessly integrates customer onboarding, blockchain monitoring, and the Travel Rule.

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May 26, 2023

221: First Chain | Greg Hannam, Peerkat, and the Power of NFT Data

Greg Hannam is the co-founder and CEO of Peerkat, a data analytics tool for marketers to help them understand their users, increase engagement and drive growth in their web3 strategies. In this episode, Greg chats with Pete Townsend about how …

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May 23, 2023

220: The Message: Howie Young, Protico and the Universal Chatting Int…

Howie Young is the founder and CEO of Protico, a universal chatting interface that enables web3 chat on apps in seconds for enterprises that want to migrate business and engage customers at the web3 level.

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May 19, 2023

219: Footprints | Deb Pratiher and Quest Labs

Deb Pratiher is the co-founder and CEO of Quest Labs, building infrastructure enabling organizations to leverage data in a privacy-preserving manner to unlock powerful user experiences.

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May 5, 2023

217: Payday | Lee Gray and SonX

Lee Gray is the co-founder and CEO of SonX, a community platform that allows superfans to subscribe to their favorite musicians via a monthly membership fee unlocking fan-only ticketing, exclusive audio content, and digital and physical collectibles.

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April 28, 2023

216: One Tribe | Katerina Bohle Carbonell, TogetherCrew and Web3 Comm…

Katerina Bohle Carbonell is the co-lead of TogetherCrew, one of the 12 founding teams forming the Techstars Web3 accelerator. Some web3 communities fall apart under pressure, others come together stronger. TogetherCrew exists to help build and grow communities by ensuring …

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April 14, 2023

214: World Class | Techstars Web3 Class of 2023

This episode features a rundown of the 12 web3 founding teams that form the Techstars Web3 accelerator class of 2023, along with an intro to each of their CEOs.

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March 16, 2023

211: Money Talks: Lessons Learned from 1,000 Startup Deals | The Amer…

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend take a quick look at the triumvirate of bank failures in the US with Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank before Eoin asks Pete about his lessons learned from seeing over 1,000 deals in …

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March 10, 2023

210: Money Talks | Web3 Gender Gap | Pitching the Right VCs | Revolut…

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend look at the outsized gender gap in web3, then riff on the realities of venture capital ‘dry powder’ and crypto VCs, before stepping through what’s wrong with Revolut’s neo-profitability, an unfortunate slip switch for railsr …

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March 3, 2023

209: Word is Bond | Liang Wu | Writing and Investing in Web3

Liang Wu is the Co-founding Managing Partner at Eleven26 Capital, an early-stage VC fund investing in diverse founders on the evolving Internet across Web2 and Web3. In this episode, Liang riffs with Pete Townsend on his one-year reflections on writing …

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Feb. 24, 2023

208: MoneyTalks: US Crypto Crackdown | Apple + NBA Top Shot | Solaris…

Eoin and Pete riff on the latest US regulatory crackdown in crypto markets, how NBA Top Shot on the Apple app store is a leading indicator of our wider society’s digital asset adoption whether we realize it or not, trouble …

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