WTM Presents: Voices from Web3Bridge Cohort 12 (Episode 3)

0:00I want to be the builder. That feeling where you make something and people use it. You you have this this feeling of satisfaction, not just consuming what has been there. So yeah, I would like to be the builder over and over again. Hello everyone, my name is Ayod Jawushika. I’m the founder at Bridge. For the last 5 and a half years, has been training amazing developers in Nigeria and in Africa. Trust me, Port 12 was amazing. We had 74 guys into the court, 39 guys from the court. They are intense. But then 13 is going to be bigger than this 12 because we had guys

0:44apply from Cameroon, from Togo, from Kenya, from Zimbabwe, from Uganda. And yes, Nigeria is not left out. Trust me, don’t want to miss the experience. Today I’m chatting with Masio and his team at Wii Media. They’re speaking with the guys that just finished from the court. Make sure you watch that as we see here at We Them Media in 3 2 1. What’s up? I’m good. Uh, thanks for joining us for this. Can you tell us your name? Uh, where you’re from and your tribe. Okay. I’m Godo. Um, popularly known as Gwill and um we form tribe and I’m a front end tree developer. Okay. How did you get into three?

1:22Okay. I got into web three um through a friend of mine. He’s a senior dev and um it’s a smart contract editor. So that’s how I got into it through and what about web bridge? How do web bridge get on your radar? Um web bridge has been very very good to me and um it’s really an interesting experience and I would like every other person to like want to like tag along and come and experience what I’ve experienced so far really beach. And how would you describe your experience here? what are like the the core components of that experience that you’d say? Okay. Um before before now I was

1:58wondering what be a smart contract how to interact with blockchain. I usually thought blockchain was just basically Bitcoin polygon just those top surface uh is coin store but it was more like that where C Bridge opened my eyes showed me that this is there’s more to these things. So um I was taught how to like write this smart contract, make my own tokens, interact with blockchain and um it’s really a good experience so far. Yeah. And what would you say has been an unexpected highlight of your of your experience here? Okay. I didn’t really um expect that um I would have this much experience. I

2:41thought probably they just want to like you know normal mentors they would just give you after paying they just give you um PDF just give you normal videos to just go and watch and all of those things but it was more than that is we have um we had practical experience we had live mentors they were able to like guide us wherever we have errors they will be they were always there to like fix these things for us so it’s really really good it’s a good thing and um something and I was able to connect with like minds as well, different devs, those are writing other um networks and

3:16all. I was able to connect to them. So, it’s really good. It’s a good thing. Um was it an easy choice for you to like commit to coming here? Uh there was no easy choice for me. It was just with bridge or not bridge in those days. I love that. And do you feel like blockchain is important for Africa at large? Yeah, it’s important. I want um Africa to really adopt this new tech cuz it’s um it’s really something good for Africa to adopt. Why do you feel that way? Um you know other countries they adopt Bitcoin, they adopt blockchain, they adopt um there’s easy way to like write

3:57your smart contract is just the basically like your lawyer. You don’t need this lawyer. is just written down codes that they execute when you just want them to execute legally. So this eliminates the need for um normal human there’s transparency in a blockchain. So I think in Africa, Africa is really they’ve really been in the dark. So you introducing them to the blockchain is like showing them the lights. So everybody wants to see the light. So I that’s why I want um I I think it’s important for us to like adopt this blockchain tech. No, that makes a lot of sense. And I’m curious on a more personal note, what

4:38what do you hope to achieve with like out of your experience here coming here, what you’ve learned, etc. Okay. I hope to u make my impact in the world. I hope to on board more users to web 3 and I also hope to like um build products that are essential for people to use. And yeah, that’s what I hope to achieve. Yeah, I got that. And I’m curious, when you think about the different sides of crypto and blockchain, um, where are you most interested in use cases? Okay. I I want to be the builder. I want to be the builder. You know, that feeling where you make something and

5:15people use it, you you have this this feeling of satisfaction, not just consuming what has been there. So, yeah, I would like to be the builder over and over again. over and over again. And as you see yourself wrapping up this cohort, um you guys have been working on projects. What have you been working on? I’m working on um race with tree. So in summary, it’s just you um connecting um founders and investors together. So you know founders they would want to showcase their product. We we offer the platform for you to bring your product as a founder, showcase it on our platform and you’ll see investors

5:53investor just come in check browse through the product that are available and they invest in your idea. If your idea is making sense, they invest on it based on milestones and all. So basically in summary just connecting these these two guys. We know there’s a problem. Everybody wants to build. They have a lot of builders but builders face challenges. you get they want grants, they want um acatons, they want funding as well. So we provide the means to make this funding easier for them to get access to by giving them investors already have investors that are waiting for them to showcase their products. So this would

6:33be like an opportunity for founders to get funding from us. Yeah, I think that’s beautiful especially um for founders here in Africa who are looking for visibility and looking for people uh you know to recognize the value of the products they’re building. I think there was a lot of longevity in that, you know, uh I really appreciate you, you and your roommates, you all let us occupy your room here tonight, which is really nice. Very humble. I really appreciate it. And I also noticed in two conversations and I shared about We Them Media and you jumped in our discord really quick, but I also shared about

6:58Workcast and you jumped on Workcast really quick. And I’m curious, you know, what was the value that you saw on Warpcast and We Them Media that had you take such initiative? Okay. um the value I saw on the the webcast and it’s um where you said it is really really narrow you know on X we have developers everybody wants to like showcase and all but there’s a lot of noise on X but this WAS had made it made it easier for just devs you know it’s just like minds you you just you say something and everybody relates to what you are talking about easy way it’s not

7:33just um not it’s not like X whereby you make something or you make a post and you you have people that are non-devs that are your followers, they won’t really relate to what you are talking about, but it made it easier. And also the community you introduce me to. Um know me, I I’m a big fan of communities. I like I like joining communities, see what um this community is about, see how I can contribute to that community. So it’s kind of like my thing, but I like it. That’s beautiful. Thank you. And to close out here, We Them Media will like to say booya. This quazar interview. So

8:10I’m curious, how do you think buya is spelled? Okay. Um, b o y a h. You want to count us in? Okay. So 3 2 1. Booyah.