Devin Finzer

Co-founder & CEO, OpenSea · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderexecutiveengineerinvestor@dfinzer ↗

Devin Finzer co-founded OpenSea in 2017 alongside Alex Atallah, growing it into one of the leading global marketplaces for non-fungible tokens. Before OpenSea, he worked as a software engineer at Pinterest and co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma in 2016.

11statements → 6claims → 2claims resolved → 3.64/5average certainty → 1.82/5average debate potential →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Devin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Finzer: OpenSea trades new NFT projects without custom integrations

“Oftentimes projects will kind of come out of thin air and start trading on OpenSea without us ever having to go and do special integrations with them because it's all kind of built into the blockchain.”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 1:39 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

240 words/min while actually speaking · 40.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Devin Finzer: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,087 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said11 Episodes1

Everything Devin Finzer said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported

Finzer: OpenSea trades new NFT projects without custom integrations

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 1:39 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Insight

Finzer: NFTs give creators an open, free market from day one

“That's sort of one of the magical things about it is you get an open free market from day one the moment you launch your NFT.”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 1:54 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Finzer: Digital art was not a real market three years ago

“Digital art just really wasn't a market three years ago.”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 5:51 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Insight

Finzer: Tokenization gives assets instant liquidity and DeFi compatibility

“With an NFT, the exciting thing about it is the moment you turn something in an NFT, it sort of plugs into all of the existing like crypto infrastructure. So when you make an NFT, what do you kind of get out of the box? One is you get a marketplace, right? You…”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 7:03 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Insight

Finzer: Vaulted physical items can trade as NFTs before physical redemption

“One of the interesting things is, and we're starting to see experiments with this is people are holding in, in their own custody physical items, but issuing NFTs for them so that they can be traded around many times before they're actually redeemed for the phy…”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 7:49 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Opinion

Finzer: CryptoPunks is the first candidate for a true digital antique

“CryptoPunks, for those of you who aren't familiar, is kind of one of those most famous early NFT projects. I like to call it kind of the first candidate for a true digital antique.”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 10:45 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Devin Finzer: Virtual land will face physical-world zoning and regulatory issues

“But I think to answer your question, a lot of the same problems that we have in the physical world will start to emerge as well.”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 13:05 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Finzer: Instagram and ad platforms capture most value from creators

“So if you think about Instagram today, you're creating all of this interesting content, but much, most of the value is being captured by the platform itself, kind of due to how the business models work, right? Advertising based business models don't typically …”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 15:18 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Assertion Supported

Finzer: High transaction costs make trading NFTs on Ethereum tricky

“Tricky it is at the moment to buy and sell NFTs on something like Ethereum due to the high transaction costs.”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 21:27 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Disclosure

Finzer: OpenSea consulted a virtual real estate agent for a metaverse headquarters

“OpenSea as a company, we were looking to set up a headquarters in one of these virtual worlds. And I actually went to sort of the equivalent of a virtual real estate agent to figure out how, you know, how do I get a good deal?”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 10:13 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Finzer: FIT student paid off loans selling crypto art

“And I had, I heard from the instructor that one of the, Students who had gone to the talk last year before everything was so crazy had basically, you know, started becoming a crypto artist and publishing her work and had paid off, you know, had made enough mon…”

Devin Finzer May 26, 2021 ▶ 19:47 NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)	May 26, 2021	15m

Devin Finzer

The record, in short

Their most notable supported claim

How they sound: speaking style how? →

Appearances (1)

Turn any episode into a week of clips.