Sep 5If you have startup equity, you’re an investorIf you’re working at a startup and you own equity (or you’re thinking about working at one and are offered equity), you should consider yourself an investor. Yes, this is a massive generalization. Yes, it sounds like a feel-good zinger you’d see on social media. …Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Aug 18Transfer Learning: Lessons from Web3 for Building In AIBuilding in AI today = building in uncharted waters. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t use what we’ve learned from building in other uncharted waters. AI companies can (and should!) study web3 startups to understand how to, and more importantly, how not to, build in frontier industries. Building with Security and Transparency Security and transparency…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Mar 14Web3 Gaming Infrastructure Will Repeat HistoryOver the last year, especially the last few months of 2022, I’ve seen a lot of gaming infrastructure projects, especially those building all-in-one stacks. How did we get here? And how does the fact that I saw a lot of gaming infrastructure projects (all of which are building really cool…Web35 min readWeb35 min read
Feb 27Web3 Gaming: A Year in RetrospectA while back, I wrote about things I learned over my first year as a VC. It’s only fitting I do that for my first year in web3, especially web3 gaming. In the past year, I’ve seen an extreme roller coaster of highs and low, from an explosion of DAOs…Web36 min readWeb36 min read
Feb 5Web3 Gaming Is Dead. Long Live Web2.5 Gaming.Over the past year I’ve been in web3 gaming, and especially over the past ~6 months I’ve been supporting Sam Peurifoy for Hivemind’s gaming / metaverse vertical, I’ve seen many ebbs and flows as the web3 gaming space discovers uses for blockchain technology. Of these changes, there have been a…Web35 min readWeb35 min read
Sep 21, 2022Gaming Guilds, Part 3: Guilds as Min-Maxers; The FutureIn the previous installment in this series, I left off on a note about raising the money needed to fund a guild. Well, this article isn’t about funding a guild! Part 3 will touch on the concept of guilds as massive min-maxers, and my vision of how the business model…Web39 min readWeb39 min read
Aug 2, 2022A Complication to My Uncomplicated Framework: Hybrid Styles Part 1, ArcadesBuilding on a Foundation Back in February, many moons ago, I shared my very uncomplicated blockchain gaming framework that places games along two dimensions of quality and quantity focuses. …Gaming5 min readGaming5 min read
Jun 17, 2022Gaming Guilds, Part 2: Quantifying the Business ModelIn Part 1, we talked about the general business model of a gaming guild: what it does, how it works, and what value it brings to players and investors. As a refresher, here is the general gaming guild business model today: Gather a treasury of liquid capital. Invest liquid capital…Web34 min readWeb34 min read
Published inKap Kats·Jun 10, 2022Kap Kats WhitepaperVision and Mission Our vision is a more equitable, transparent, and healthier life for community members worldwide, through web3 gaming. To make our vision come to life, our mission is to provide access to earning opportunities in web3 gaming and give back to our communities through charitable giving, especially by giving to organizations…Charity4 min readCharity4 min read
Jun 7, 2022Intro to Kapital DAOCo-authored with Lucas Miranda (https://medium.com/lucas-miranda) Ready to be a part of the next one billion people we’re onboarding into web3 gaming? Kapital DAO is at the center of connecting individuals to larger communities in the play-to-earn metaverse. Let’s break it down. As the gaming guild ecosystem continues to grow, protocols…Gamefi3 min readGamefi3 min read
