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Podcast: Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders
Episode: #32: Dan Romero, Co-Founder @ Farcaster | How two Coinbase early employees designed one of the most thriving web3 social networks: product decisions,tech trade-offs & community building tactics
Description: Dan Romero was employee #20 at Coinbase. After helping to build the company for 5 years, he left Coinbase in 2019 to build an alternative to Twitter with his Coinbase colleague, Varun Srinivasan. This idea transformed into Farcaster - a web3 social network that has become a go-to place for the crypto community in the last few months.Â
TIMESTAMPS:
00:38 What is Farcaster
1:20 How Dan Romero became employee #20 at Coinbase and what he learned about crypto, and why he left in 2019
4:32 Why RSS lost and how Farcaster started as RSS+
6:56 Farcaster as a T...