Web3
19 statements across 14 episodes · 15 bullish · 2 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Sahil Bloom · across every show →
Everything said about Web3, oldest first
Dec 10, 2021 negative
Bloom: Exclusive event guest lists contradict the ethos of Web3
“It's also web, like, crypto and web, like, it's, I, personally, I think of it as, like, open access, meritocracy, borderless, anyone can do it. A kid on the streets in India has the same access to that Discord channel as a kid growing up in Greenwich going to …”
Dec 14, 2021 bullish
Dec 17, 2021 bullish
Bloom: Web3 drives a massive generational wealth transfer that incumbents oppose
“I mean, there's a massive generational transfer of wealth that's happening right now, and the incumbents don't like it. Insiders don't love the fact that anybody can get onto these on rails and operate in this system, but it's such a cool thing.”
Dec 23, 2021 bullish
Isenberg: Tokenized upside and governance will transform communities within 5-10 years
“And I think what you're going to see over the next five, 10 years is when you Insert a token. If you insert, you know, a JPEG, a video, an NFT, and you allow people to share upside in the group and allow to, you know, and allow them to vote on where this group…”
Jan 11, 2022 positive
Isenberg: Founders should MVP 90% of Web3 ideas in Web2 first
“90% of web three ideas, MVP it in web two and just learn. And then if you can add a web three component, once you've understand the problem set a lot better, I think that makes a lot more sense just cause it's harder to build on web three.”
Jan 11, 2022 bullish
Belsky predicts centralized and hybrid services will ultimately win in Web3
“In, in many cases, centralized services will win or hybrid, you know, decentralized by ethos, but centralized to some extent by like certain aspects of the user experience, you know, I think are maybe going to ultimately win”
Jan 27, 2022 positive
Melker: Web3 Attracts Second Acts Because Incumbents Lack Multi-Decade Advantage
“All these other industries, even tech to a degree, because Silicon Valley is an eighties thing, right? As much as it evolved into what it was, Silicon Valley already had its core. I think everybody's sort of figuring it out together and came to it through some…”
Jan 27, 2022 positive
Bloom: Silicon Valley Tech Is Monocultural Compared To Eclectic Web3
“Like, in, in tech, I lived in San Francisco in the Bay Area for a long time, not anymore, luckily, but there, it's like, it's only really one type of person, and it gets a bad rep for that, but it's like a lot of the tech bro is like what it gets a rep for. Wh…”
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Bloom: Hype cycles are useful because they attract talent and capital
“And the reality with a lot of it is it's sort of a natural evolutionary feature, this hype, because it draws a ton of capital, but also a ton of talent into the space that will build the next layer of innovation. So even if we go through kind of a cycle where …”
Feb 10, 2022 bullish
May 3, 2022 bullish
Jun 17, 2022 negative
Goldberg: Web3 identity is flawed by overemphasizing capital over on-chain actions
“If there's an area of web three, that's quite flawed. It's your online identity and the way that you kind of credential identities online. It's today. It's very much about what you have, like what's in your wallet, how much capital is there How expensive is yo…”
Jun 17, 2022 bullish
Goldberg: Best consumer products will emerge from permissionless protocols
“These really low switching costs in web three and all of these open protocols end up resulting in a lot of pressure on companies to build products that just like point blank serve consumers better. I think like from a venture perspective too, like I think the …”
Jun 17, 2022
Jul 14, 2022 positive
Ball: Web3 will supplement the future, not replace TCP/IP
“I'm not one of the revisionists that believes that we're going to strip out TCP IP and replace it with web three. But I do believe and am quite optimistic that parts of our future are going to be supplemented by these technologies. But I do think it's still a …”
Jul 21, 2022 bullish
Li Jin: Crypto enables users to earn project ownership alongside income
“Crypto was this new way for people to earn an income online and not only could they earn an income, they were actually earning ownership in the projects that they were participating in which I thought was so interesting and something that had never been possib…”
Aug 18, 2022 positive
Nov 23, 2022 positive
Butcher: Tokenization enables upside sharing when formal hiring is impossible
“And in like an internet native world, hiring everybody as a contractor or W two employee that wants to contribute to the network is just not possible. Like it's literally not possible. So the friction that you can remove by tokenizing some of that process is i…”
Aug 3, 2023
Isenberg turned down a $100M offer to build a Web3 incubator
“So, for example, in 2021, in the hip to crypto mania, we had an offer, I don't think I've publicly said this, but we had an offer for, we had a hundred, someone willing to give us one hundred million dollars To go build a studio incubator around web three star…”