Podcast

David Furlong is the Founder at Openframes. Backed by a16z Startup School & Dan Romero, Openframes is enabling developers to build mini-apps that are open, interoperable, and permissionless, now available for Farcaster. In this episode we discuss the nature of pivoting (what makes pivot good vs. bad), how to adapt in the fast-moving world of blockchain technology, why what’s happening within decentralized social matters so much, how to stick with your principles (in an especially tricky field to do so), & much more.

Austin Green is the Co-Founder at Llama. Backed by Founders Fund, Electric Capital, Elad Gil, & more, Llama is a full-stack platform for on-chain access control and governance, where users can securely take action using on-chain policies and custom execution strategies. In this episode we discuss Austin’s path to conviction around the problem space, his perspective on progressive decentralization (and how Llama fits into that perspective), how crypto’s changed since his introduction to the space, best advice for crypto founders in 2024, & much more.

Evin McMullen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Disco. Backed by Polychain Capital, Winklevoss Capital, WAGMI Ventures, & more, Disco is your own personal data backpack—where you own yourself, and control what you share. In this episode we hear about Evin’s fascinating educational journey, her formative experiences with Napster early-on, how decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials work in Disco, some upcoming exciting news for the Disco community, & much, much more.

Yair Cleper is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Lava. Backed by WAGMI Ventures, Hashkey Capital, Jump, Tribe Capital, & more, Lava is a modular network which rollups use to bootstrap a performant network of infrastructure providers. RPC requests are routed to the best available provider, giving developers and users optimal service. In this episode we talk about most exciting trajectories for the product vision, mistakes teams often make when building in crypto, what crypto’s getting right (and wrong) in 2024, his best advice for building infra in crypto, & much more.

Alex Adelman is the Founder & CEO at Lolli. Backed by WAGMI Ventures, Founders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Alexis Ohanian/776, Mr. Beast’s Night Ventures, & more, Lolli enables shoppers to get up to 30% back in cash or bitcoin across 25,000+ top stores with the free Lolli browser extension & mobile app. With partners like Nike, Chewy, Microsoft, Sephora, & Lowe’s, Lolli is building the category-defining company for bitcoin rewards. In this episode we talk about how to get partnerships right (in such a partnership-driven model), earliest challenges and earliest surprises that shaped the DNA of Lolli, how to avoid common mistakes of building in crypto (hint: survive!), what crypto’s getting right (and wrong) in 2024, and much more.