Mike Demarais - Making the future fun with Rainbow

In this week’s episode, we sit down with our friend and co-founder of Rainbow Wallet, Mike Demarais. We dive into Mike’s background as a software engineer, how he fell into the crypto rabbithole, co-founding Rainbow, important lessons learned from raising capital, and so much more. Season Four is officially powered by Arbitrum and our content is now redistributed across Rug Radio and Decrypt’s platforms. If you’ve never felt the frictionless transactions at lightning speeds on the world’s most decentralized L2, what are you waiting for? Head on over to http://portal.arbitrum.io to check out their growing ecosystem where you can explore 600+ apps and even participate in missions to earn points. 0:00 Intro (Lindyness of the Fractional Hat) 3:30 Mike’s crypto rabbit hole story and inspiration for Rainbow 16:50 How did you get into software development? 30:00 Mike’s political aspirations 32:20 The Rainbow Brand and how Mike thinks about building  46:35 Andy buys punks because of Mike’s tweets 50:30 Early crypto meetups in NYC  53:40 Rainbow’s first raise and what they learned from YC 1:02:50 Most important lesson learned from raising capital?  1:11:10 What does a day in the life of Mike Rainbow look like? 1:17:10 How had Discord use changed from the mania in 2021 until now? 1:21:00 Ordinals 1:32:00 Gaming backgrounds 1:41:35 Mike’s love of Unisocks 1:47:20 What’s next for Rainbow? 1:58:40 Telegram bots 2:01:00 NFTs on L2s 2:10:32 What would your autobiography title be? More Mike: X:  https://x.com/mikedemarais More Rainbow: https://rainbow.me/  More Andy8052 X: https://twitter.com/andy8052  More Deeze X:  https://twitter.com/DeeZe More WDAL X: https://twitter.com/wedoalittlepod  Mirror Subscribe: https://mirror.xyz/0xE8436a2337751F76... Discord: https://discord.gg/AStUCwXERh    More Arbitrum X: https://twitter.com/arbitrum portal: http://portal.arbitrum.io  More Rug Radio website:  https://www.rug.fm/  x: https://twitter.com/RugRadio More Decrypt website: https://decrypt.co/  x: https://twitter.com/decryptmedia More h0m3w0rk (creators of our theme song)  X: https://twitter.com/homeworkNFT Production by Weesh X: https://twitter.com/__weesh__   DISCLAIMER: Nothing contained within this podcast is financial or investment advice, a solicitation to buy or sell any token, or to be relied upon to make any financial decisions.  The podcast hosts or guests may own tokens or art that is discussed.  All opinions shared on this podcast are those of the respective individuals only and provided for information and entertainment purposes only. We does not condone or support the creation, buying, or selling of NFTs as a means of investment.  Please consult and work directly with qualified professionals before making any decisions related to NFTs.