#183 - JACOB HORNE
Jacob is a cofounder of Zora, an onchain social network revealing new opportunities to create, connect, and earn from your life online. It's new app could be compared to a crypto version of Instagram. Before creating Zora, Jacob was a product designer and product manager at Coinbase. Follow Jacob on Warpcast @jacob and on X @js_horne. 0:00 - Jacob’s journey to creating Zora 11:40 - The evolution of monetizing information 15:15 - Business model experimentation at Zora 25:39 - The spectrum of fungibility 35:34 - Zora’s fee structure and incentive model 43:41 - Collecting and aggregating within Zora 48:18 - Quantity vs quality of posts on Zora 1:00:35 - Introducing Sparks as a new unit of account 1:10:14 - The story behind Zora’s Zorb logo For more episodes, go to podofjake.com. Previous guests include Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Balaji Srinivasan, Keith Rabois, Ali Spagnola, Anthony Pompliano, Raoul Pal, Julia Galef, Jack Butcher, Tim Draper, and over 100 others alike. Learn from founders and CEOs of companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Solana, Polygon, AngelList, Oura, and Replit, and investors from Founders Fund, a16z, Union Square Ventures, and many more. I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy. Thanks to Chase Devens for the show notes and Yiction for the music. Lastly, I love hearing from fans of the pod. Feel free to email me any time at jake@blogofjake.com. Thank you!
Ep.11: A case for speculation, Notcoin, Optimism RetroPGF 3, Berachain, + more
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. This week we explore... -The challenges and opportunity of building in consumer crypto -The case for speculation @ZeePrimeCap -Notcoin -Optimism RetroPGF Round 3 -tokenomics and @berachain and more...! Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz Hosts: Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Cheryl Douglass Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
Ep.08: Memecoins, Solana Euphoria, Protocol Rewards, The Future of Cross-Chain
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. This week we discuss... - A wild week of memecoins, and some cool experiments out of the @farcaster_xyz world - @solana euphoria and @ethereum cope - a professional network fork of http://friend.tech by @coordinape - @viamirror and @soundxyz_ protocol rewards and the growing onchain media distribution ecosystem - @ourZORA cross-chain minting and the future of chain inhabiting Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: peace_node Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
Ep.07: Guest Jacob Horne (Zora), the $Points saga, Decrypt x Rug Radio Merge, 1155tech, and more
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. We welcome special guest Jacob Horne and here's what we found interesting this week... new Zora frontend and zora chain integrations Decrypt x Rug Radio merger Rainbow launches points the Farcaster $points saga new art edition platform @1155tech @bryanlehrer piece on what happened to the new internet and more.... Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: peace_node Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
Exploring Consumer Crypto with SC06
A look at the people and products in SC06, Seed Club’s Consumer Crypto Accelerator
Ep 29 - Li Jin
We're joined by Li Jin to talk about her background as an investor in consumer crypto. We cover her life living abroad, her experience attending conferences, and figuring out what it means to build the future of ownership.
