Do you have a message for the builders?
The closing question of the web3 interviews: at ETH Global New York, and in a longer conversation about coordinating people and capital. It is the one question on this site that assumes the person answering is inside the industry.
Four answers, and they point in four directions: a chain, a stack, a market, and a warning about building the thing you set out to replace.
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Who answered, and what did they say?
These are the speakers’ own words, as they said them. We have not checked their claims.
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Length 3:56
Build on Bitcoin.
“Build on Bitcoin.”
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Length 5:13
Civil liberty through infrastructure. Start building.
“we’re all about revitalizing the civil liberty and human rights through infrastructure, through technology … start building”
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Length 15:52
A bear market is a builder’s market.
“it’s a bear market right now, but it’s actually a builder’s market.”
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Length 42:18
Keep your intentions and your structure in alignment.
“make sure your intentions and the structure of the thing that you’re building are in alignment.”
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Length 1:00:47
Farcaster is the best place to build.
“Farcaster is by far the best place to build. You can have an idea or something and have it up and running in a couple of days and then get your first hundred users a couple of days after that.”
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Length 2:13
Don’t give up.
“don’t give up, keep building You’ll eventually get the recognition you deserve”
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Length 12:31
Get involved; keep talking to people.
“My message for the builders is to get involved.”
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Length 2:22
He pitched it to businesses until somebody said yes.
“Just keep building, man. Just go for it. You never know.”
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Length 2:05
They can only regulate what you have already built.
“Keep building. Like if you keep building, they can’t stop you. Like they can only build violations and laws and stuff to hold you down for the things you’ve built already. But if you keep innovating, that’s going to break out of it.”
What else has the archive asked?
- What is the most important global issue today? 14
- Is the internet good for us? 11
- What made you smile today? 17
- What is Ethereum? 10
- What do you think of the United States? 13
- How has the place you live changed in your lifetime? 8
- What would you say to someone under ten? 12
- If you could ask people around the world one question, what would you ask them? 32
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