A Web3Bridge cohort member who forgot he had applied.
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Executive producer: C.Y. Lee
Just under six minutes in Ikorodu, Lagos with a Web3Bridge Cohort 12 member, the sixth episode in the run of short interviews We Them Media filmed as the cohort wrapped.
Web3Bridge founder Ayodeji Awosika opens from the same building, counting the cohort in and out and listing the countries applications for the next one came from.
The introduction is brief and the audio is against it: a name, a state, and “So I’m a front-end developer.” He came in through a friend, another developer, who told him to bring his skills to the course.
Asked how crypto is seen in Nigeria, he answers with what the school corrected. “we have some people nowadays, they use Web3 for scamming”, he says, where at the course “they are going to show you how to make your own money and you really understand the law of blockchain”. He rates it high: “one of the best platforms in Africa right now to show you how Web3 really works, how blockchain is really used”.
The story about the entrance test is the best thing on the tape. “I registered for the bootcamp online. I’ve forgotten that I registered for them”, he says, until the mail arrived saying he had a test that morning. “So they gave us tests of like 2 hours. For the next 30 minutes, I’m done with it.” The lesson he draws is not about talent. “Web3 Bridge actually taught me how to manage my time”, he says, because “they train us with time constraints. So you have to know how to manage your time.”
What he came for is plain: “I want to become a smart contract dev and to know more about blockchain”, and what he is leaving with is confidence rather than a certificate. “So I’m very confident in myself now to build on blockchain.”
Asked why building on chain matters, he puts it as a market rather than a movement. “Web3 is actually taking the world right now. Web2 is not giving what people need right now.” Building now “is going to be a very big opportunity”, he says, and “it’s solving a very big solution that Web2 cannot solve”.
His advice to anyone hesitating is a timetable, not a pitch: “it’s not too late. You can jump on the train right now.” Then the practical case, which several people in this series make the same way: “there’s food for you, there’s light, and you just have to come to class, learn, and have fun.”
The project is called Block, “a platform whereby you can subscribe for your subscription”, television and water bills among them. The MVP is done and the team is trying to launch.
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