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Mint Season 6 episode 8 welcomes Tyson Battistella, CTO and Co-Founder of Zora.co the NFT marketplace protocol. Throughout the hour, we discuss how he got his start in web3, the early days at Coinbase, lessons learned along the years while building their marketplace protocol, hyperstructures, his thesis on the web3 creator economy, web3’s data problems, and so much more.
Timestamps
03:17 - Intro
07:55 - Getting Started in Web3
10:33 - Dropping Out of College
11:36 - Interning at Coinbase
14:53 - Quitting Coinbase to Start Zora
18:08 - What Did We Mess Up In Web2 That We Are Fixing In Web3?
21:11 - Learning Lessons Along the Way From the Initial Vision to Now
24:27 - What Are Some Marketplaces or Platforms That You Would Want to See Created?
28:13 - What Would You Pay for the Collectible Telescope Artifact or a Moment in Time?
29:03 - How Should Creators Be Using This New Open Edition Format?
31:43 - Favorite Moments from Nouns
33:30 - Building for Creators and Top Entrepreneurs
36:03 - Zora Hackathons
38:33 - Other Problems to Solve in Web3
40:01 - What is a Hyperstructure?
43:42 - What Do You Think About the Nouns Model as a Potential Mechanism for Open Hyperstructured Development?
46:23 - How Do You Capture the Value Created Through a Hyperstructure?
47:49 - Solving Web3's Metadata Problem
50:12 - What Does it Mean to Be a Data-Informed Creator?
52:11 - How Does Zora Use On-chain Data?
55:36 - Challenges With Building Zora
58:21 - How Can a Team Manage Magnificent Meme Game With Top Tier Tools, Software Development?
58:56 - Zora's Mood Board
01:00:08 - Outro
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