Exploring what's next. Founder /launchcaster. YC alum. Avid trail runner 🍊🏃

Thanks to @jayme & the Algos (#bandname) for the new follows (#bandname)!

Ask me about:
• web3 (been building since 2017)
• fintech (formerly in the space)
• startups (2x VC backed founder)
• sports (current startup)
• Jesus (believer, ex-pastor for 7yrs)
• books (I can read)
• beverages (I drink it all)

leader • reader • taco eater • sports fan • fly eagles fly • /bunches • /whiskey • previously addepar, linkedin • https://nf.td/derek

Self taught as a software engineer. Developed as a product leader out of necessity at LinkedIn and Addepar.

I love Elixir. And Swift.

Hate everything in the JavaScript ecosystem. 

Don’t care about tabs or spaces but if you try to take away my configured Sublime, I’m throwing hands.

Ran out of cast length but I’m also a political scientist & philosopher by training and a foreign policy nerd.

Currently coffee. Ethiopia single origin. Natural process. Elegy Coffee. 

Tonight? Eagle Rare. 

Because America.

If it’s a web3 app, it won’t work.

It’s akin to building and sharing a “GraphQL app” and expecting people to use it for that reason.

Crypto has to be an enabler, not the star. Keep it stealth. Under the hood.

So what can crypto enable?

Ownership.

What can people own? What do they want to own? Build that.

In your opinion, what kind of web3 app would be the one that would bring web3 to the masses?

Bullish on zero party data (the user owns it not the app or brand or collector) in both marketing and privacy applications.

There’s a world where users sell their own data via open markets.

Check out https://mytiki.com/ for inspo; there’s a huge opportunity to build on open & accessible protocols (ETH L2s or ZK).

building the world's largest lottery /megapot • 🟪 #45, FID #1575 • south park commons, ex @uniswap

Any thoughts on how blockchain can be used to improve both digital advertising and privacy?  

Asking since I’m exploring problems around the transfer of first/third-party user data, how user requests for data deletion are handled after data is transferred, and how to improve identity resolution…

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakayuo
I'm active in the Blockchain, Crypto and Web3 space as a content creator, community builder and social media marketer

I remember it fondly. Still can preach/teach. But true pastoring and counseling is the hardest job ever for someone wired like me. Nothing but respect.

Principal at Cobalt Ventures. Write @ TheItinerant.io ; BenErsing.com Host: /venturecapital /finance /adventures

Well I was a church planter (starting new churches for people who don’t like church), so a lot of it was analogous. 

Product market fit, fundraising, leading…all second nature. 

Biggest difference is the mental and emotional burden. 

Startup is easy mode in comparison.

What was the journey from pastor to founder like?

Web3 fashion-tech consultant & ex-sr designer @ FILA // copperglobal.io.

Founder/artist @ slowcrypto.com.

Having fun @ /slow-co-lab

I was bivocational already and another church wanted to merge at the same time I had an offer at LinkedIn. “Fortunate” timing. 

I’m a Calvinist (I know I know I’m sorry), so no such thing as fortune but you may get what I mean.

Blazing the trail for re-introductions with all the new friends we have of late. Nicely done. 

Casting bread upon digital waters? In. 🙏🫡

What had you go pastor —> founder?