Wild User Interviews Podcast (Wuipod)
People, Product and Crypto. Wild User Interviews is about open-sourcing open-ended conversations with the creative forces shaping up the decentralised world. In the wild, our guests range from Product Designers to Blockchain Architects, and include topics such as Philosophy and Proof-of-Stake. The common thread being our focus on the human side as he try to deconstruct the frameworks and processes to enable listeners to become the better version of themselves while venturing into the Metaverse.
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Ep. 69 - Breaking Out of the Virtual Machine w. Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol, NEAR AI)
Conversation with Illia Polosukhin (co-founder @nearprotocol) also known on the streets as The Black Dragon, recorded live during [Redacted] Bangkok 2024. Illia does A LOT of public appearances and interviews. On this interview we break norm and rather than focus of the tech (the WHAT) we focus instead on Illia's journ
Wide ranging conversation with Eric Winer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Managing Director at Pagoda. What makes this podcast special is that it was recorded just a few days after the announcement of several spinouts and the rest of Pagoda sunsetting came out. Which sets the scene for a very honest and insightful
Ep. 67 - Beyond Memecoins: Discover The Movement to Achieve SuperIntelligence w. Cameron Dennis
This is the second conversation we have with Cameron Dennis, although the first one never got released as it was deemed too spicy! Cameron was one of the earliest contributors to NEAR Inc, spearheading Business Development and eventually recruiting a BD team. He's outlasted several NEAR Foundation CEO's, even it as so
Ep. 66 - From Infra Saturation to Mass Consumer Applications w. Romain @ Polymorphic Capital
Wide ranging conversation with Romain Despoel, an associate at Polymorphic Capital. Romaind and AVB met at ETH CC Brussels 2024 and immediately hit if off. Some would say that sharing across two hackathons in such a short timeframe would bring any two people together, but we believe it is due to their shared past growi
Ep. 65 - Size Matters. Small (Models) Win w. Nick Havryliak, co-founder @ Assisterr
Wide Ranging conversation with Nick Havryliak, co-founder at Assisterr. Assisterr is a Data Provenance Protocol & Marketplace of domain-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) owned by the community. Summary In this episode we discuss the convergence of Web3 and AI. They delve into Nick's background in consulting, produc
Wide ranging conversation with Mario Reder. Mario is an engineer at Orderly (on-chain perps), lead dev at Shitzu (NEAR's OG memecoin and most active community). Some of the topics we covered include: - How we was lured from being a web2 developer to web3 thanks to WASM - The beauty and nuance of Rust language - The ori