My Journey Down the Web3 Rabbithole...

I’m an operationally-focused VC. This means that in addition to investing, I also spend much of my time helping our investments grow by taking on interim COO, CFO and even CRO roles. If you’re interested in the full details of my professional background, you can check them out on LinkedIn (but you will probably find more value by following me on Twitter 😊).

In 2015 I was working with one of these companies – an early blockchain startup – and the founder started to teach me about crypto. At that point in my life, I had barely heard of Bitcoin, had no idea how a blockchain worked and – despite having a background in economics – did not truly understand how the global financial system worked.

But the CEO said something that stuck with me:

“Blockchains are how everyone thinks the internet works but actually doesn’t”.

That opened my eyes and I started to see the world as it really was. I saw how central governments manipulated the money supply, how banks could restrict and even seize our assets, how corporations abused their power and how “Big Tech” dictated the terms of our digital lives and got rich off of our data.

Despite living in a “capitalist democracy”, I realized that we really weren’t all that free.

But I was shown that blockchains offered a better way – that they were more than just a new form of “money” or the “next iteration of the internet”. They were a tool that could drastically re-engineer human society. An invention that comes along once in a millennium – like writing or the printing press – that could give us true freedom and autonomy.

Once this passion was ignited, there was no stopping it.

Over the next several years I spent almost all of my time learning as much as I could about crypto. I invested in projects, met people in the space, learned how to code so I could build my own blockchains and decentralized apps and – most importantly – consumed every book, article, video and podcast I could find on the subject.

Unfortunately, while there is a ton of great material out there, I found that most of the time it was pretty scattered and disorganized. You can find individual canons on DeFi, DAOs, NFTs, cryptocurrenices, etc… but nothing that ties it all together.

This is unfortunate because each of these seemingly separate crypto “verticals” combine to form something way more powerful than the parts.

They’re creating the first truly sovereign digital economies, and perhaps the first digital nations. Online states that can survive outside of the purview of governments, banks and Big Tech because they have their own money, financial system, goods and laws.

And that’s why I wanted to create this website – it’s my humble attempt to summarize what I’ve learned by putting it in writing, and also to share the best resources I’ve found on Web3.