What soft & hard skills have been most helpful in helping you succeed in web3?Ĭan’t really say I’ve quite made it in Web3, I still have a long way to go to say I’ve “succeeded in web3”!įor hard skills: a solid grasp of blockchain basics. If you own an NFT built with briqs, you own the NFT and the stuff it’s made out of. You can create NFTs out of little blocks called “briqs”, and disassemble the NFTs to get the briqs back and build something else. I’m currently working on briq, an NFT creation and composability protocol built around fundamental building blocks. I then joined Ledger as a product manager in 2018. Someone advised me to look at NFTs, I wrote my master’s thesis on them and how they could recompose value chains in cultural industries. Then around 2017 I dug more and discovered you can do a lot of stuff with blockchain thanks to smart contracts. I learnt about blockchain around 2015, first as a political tool to escape centralized systems and manage value in a decentralized fashion. How did you get interested in web3 and what you are currently working on? Then a writer, a teacher, probably a philosopher at some point, and finally landed on entrepreneur. What did you want to be when you grow up?įirst I wanted to be an archeologist, then a scientist but I quickly realized I don’t really have a knack for science. The burden of proof rests on blockchain-native models to prove they can build as much, or more. And then someone comes around and shouts “now we’re going to use money because it’s better.” Not everything is suddenly better with this native digital scarcity and magic Internet coins, but some things will suddenly become possible. Monuments to human ingenuity like Linux or Wikipedia were built with no token incentives, staking mechanism or even money. That’s one of the reasons why Web2 people have such an adverse reaction to blockchain: so far, we’ve never needed it.

A bit like Steampunk science-fiction, where the main source of energy isn’t oil or nuclear power, but steam, and society has structured itself around it. I do believe that Web3 is like an alternate version of the Internet where the fundamental primitive is property, whereas the fundamental primitive of Web2 is abundance. I hate the term Web3 because it creates a sense of natural evolution or strict improvement compared to Web2. Web3 is not the evolution of the Internet but a new flavor of it. Tell me something that’s true, that almost nobody agrees with you?

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