Yanisse: Early NFT applications are a waste of top engineering talent
Daniel Yanisse · Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jul 2, 2022 · at 47:57
Daniel Yanisse is co-founder and CEO of Checkr. He critiques how engineering resources are deployed across the tech and startup ecosystem.
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“All of the smart engineers are working on like, you know, million dollar NFTs to sell, which I, and I love web three and NFTs, and I think it's the coolest technology in opportunity in the world. It's just the early applications are a little bit underwhelming.”
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