Was the lead engineer at NeoPets (10/2000 - 11/2002)

Focused on scaling (30m+ users), security (hackers), but also built guilds & games

After NP, had some success/exits as founder/cto (+ many lessons), 30+ 😇  investments

Love builders, helpers, and of course, Farcaster

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Were there any features you all launched that you were surprised with how users reacted to it or interacted with it?

Building @bountycaster (bountycaster.xyz). Co-producer on an Ethereum documentary. Previously co-founder of Scalar Capital and product at Coinbase

Not really, but primarily because we didn't spend a lot of time making projections about how something was going to be received, so we didn't go into it with expectations. Just experiments. If it seemed cool, we went for it.

There was such a large diversity of players that everything we launched found a home.