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Will Every Piece of Media Enter the Internet as an NFT? Variant Fund Says Yes

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Variant Fund is a venture capital firm that describes itself as “a first-check crypto fund investing in the ownership economy.” Jesse Walden and Li Jin, co-founders and general partners at Variant, join Unchained to discuss the ownership economy, issues with web2 and web3, NFTs, the future of work, and more. Highlights:

  • where Li and Jesse met and how their backgrounds as investors + founders led them to the crypto space
  • how Li’s investing niche, which she describes as the passion economy, ended up intersecting with crypto
  • why Li believes that web3 platforms will be better for creators than the current web2 ecosystem
  • why Jesse was so inspired by Bitcoin after working in the music industry for so many years
  • why Jesse believes that NFTs are the “port of entry” for the mainstream adoption of crypto
  • what other use-cases exist for NFTs outside of the JPEG or PNG meme (and why Jesse is so excited about music NFTs)
  • why Li believes that web3 tools can help fix the issues inherent to the “gig economy”
  • Li and Jesse respond to criticisms of web3 coming from Jack Dorsey and Moxie Marlinspike
  • how Variant Fund thinks about investing in crypto projects
  • what token allocation Variant Fund targets when investing in crypto projects
  • why mainstream platforms are experiencing backlash for integrating with NFTs and crypto
  • what trends in NFTs, DAOs, and the ownership economy Jesse and Li think will pop in 2022

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Episode links

Li Jin

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ljin18 
  • Substack: https://li.substack.com/
  • Li Jin on the creator economy
    • The future of the creator economy
    • What the creator economy is doing wrong
    • How to fix the “gig” style economy for creators
    • How the creator economy could power universal basic income
    • What labor should look like in Web3
    • Building the middle class of the creator economy
  • Other
    • Web3 is the “golden age” of content
    • Transitioning to Web3 from a non-tech perspective

Jesse Walden

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessewldn 
  • Website (no blogs since 2020): https://jessewalden.com/ 
  • Random Tweets
    • DAOs
    • NFTs
    • Music NFTs x Sound XYZ
    • Commoditizing a compliment
  • Writing
    • NFTs make the internet ownable
    • Product vs. Protocol
    • Leadership in the ownership economy
    • How DeFi crosses the chasm
    • Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn’t is Who Benefits
    • Narrative Economics
    • Progressive decentralization
    • Layers of blockchain computing

Variant Fund

  • Variant Fund Twitter
  • Variant Fund website
  • Writing: 
  • Mirror Blog (Feb 2021 article on NFTs)
  • Variant Fund + Atelier joining forces

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