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AMA with @colin starts now! Colin went to Waterloo and worked on a variety of projects there - most notably he was CTO of Yelplive & founder of BitIndy. He then worked on the payments team at Coinbase and moved over to Google where was was an eng manager for ~4 years. Now Colin is building @paragraph full time!
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how often do you write vs code? what do you like / dislike about both? And is there something in your thought process you think is similar across both?
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You traveled a bunch last year! How have you been able to keep the balance between being a founder and enjoying ur trips?
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how do you hire great people to build in web3? especially when so many great builders may not have heard about or have a good vision for the industry?
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Hey Colin! Thanks for doing this AMA. A paragraph fan here :)) Which books have shaped your thinking the most or been most useful to your current experience of building a platform for writers?
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how / are you planning to convince non web3 natives to move over to paragraph? i have a lot of substack friends and they are pretty entrenched on that platform (including myself)
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what's the #1 quality or skill an IC has to have in order to make the leap to leadership?
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Hey Colin! Thank you for doing this When/how did you hear about crypto for the first time?
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What's one thing you've changed your mind on about entrepreneurship/startups/life/etc since you began working on Paragraph? (as in, as a result of your work on Paragraph)
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@colin what motivates you?
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What is the most amazing "small" thing you cherish?
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What are the key lessons from Yelplive and BitIndy that you've been able to carry over to Paragraph?
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How do you prioritize what you work on as a founder?
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What was your process from leaving Google to building paragraph and funding it? Did you have a sense of what you wanted to build before or after leaving? If before, did you have anything built already?
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@colin Was credit-card fraud the biggest challenge during your time at @coinbase ?
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what is the biggest source of joy for you in this moment of your life?
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Outside of paragraph, what would you do/create if you knew you could not fail?
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Which part of the web3 technological stack are you most exited about? Both technical and or social.
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