Devin Finzer

Everything Devin Finzer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Disclosure

Devin Finzer: OpenSea grew linearly and occasionally shrank during 2018 crypto winter

“Because on one hand, you know, we weren't really growing that fast. We were kind of, like, linearly growing. Sometimes we had, like, a negative month or whatnot, but we still did have, like, Some transaction volume on the marketplace.”

Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 11:32 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!

20VC Assertion Supported

Devin Finzer: OpenSea operated with only six to seven people during takeoff

“We had like six to seven people, right? When, even when things started taking off, we were really small.”

Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 14:33 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Devin Finzer: Customer support and platform reliability were OpenSea's main scaling bottlenecks

“I would say the two main ones are sort of customer support and relatedly trust and safety, so ensuring that people aren't selling fraudulent items, and then core platform.”

Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 18:00 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!

20VC Disclosure

Devin Finzer: Figma founder Dylan Field is a close mentor on OpenSea

“Founder of Figma is a really close mentor of mine. I mean, what's great about Dylan is he is able to do so many different things. He's running Figma, but he's also extremely deep in the NFT space, so he's just been, like, very helpful from, like, mentoring us …”

Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 30:32 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!

a16z 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)

a16z 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)

The other half of the tape: Devin Finzer's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 3 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 2Semil Shah 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Devin's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, OpenSea	1	19	83% 5/6	full record on 20VC →
a16zLEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, OpenSea	1	11	100% 2/2	full record on the a16z Podcast →