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@variantfund is growing the team!

I'm hiring a data-driven Research Analyst to work w/ me on new investments + supporting founders building crypto networks & The Ownership Economy.

Interested? 👇
variant.fund/hiring-a-resea…
YOU:

+ A detail oriented self-starter, intellectually curious, with strong analytical and communication skills

+ Thrive off of new ideas and excited to push our thinking

+ Have a technical background or a demonstrated ability in data-driven analysis
+ Are excited to design and track the metrics that are most critical to understanding and forecasting the progress of important crypto and Ownership Economy projects.
+ Able to distill and communicate insights to the investment team either verbally or through data visualizations and writing — and potentially publish them to the portfolio and broader community of builders
+ Have demonstrated a high level of initiative in a prior activity.

+ Are excited to meet entrepreneurs at the earliest stages, and actively participate in the internet communities they are building.
How do you apply?

The application includes short written pieces and video interviews. Its due by Friday, October 30th.

Apply here: forms.gle/zC76mdfr9kkeai…
Variant Fund is based in New York City 🗽 and open to remote work

I'm hoping for candidates from a myriad of backgrounds and couldn't be more excited to grow the team.

Hope you'll consider applying!

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9 Oct
Product Design continues to be a gaping hole in the crypto talent market (next only to mechanism designers.)

If you’re looking to do life changing work in a burgeoning industry, nows the time to jump in.

Happy to connect to top teams in the space.

Even if only curious, lmk!
If you're interested in the future of finance, here are some teams looking to hire (feel free to add more!)

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8 Oct
Ownership Economy platforms (e.g. @UniswapProtocol, @compoundfinance) benefit from independent delegates representing users in governance.

@variantfund wants to delegate to user reps (esp in DeFi) today.

Thinking about getting involved?

Wrote a list of delegate DOs & DONTs 👇
First, what does it take to be a delegate?

A: Whatever you have to give.

Value add in governance comes in different shapes and sizes: full-time, part-time, developers, users, marketers.

If you have an opinion, you can get involved.
So HOW do you get involved?

To start, monitor and participate in topics that interest you.

For example, track topics directly on governance dashboards like gov.uniswap.org or across projects aggregators like boardroom.info
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14 Jul
In pursuit of a more equitable and innovative internet, I'm launching something new 🚀

@VariantFund is early-stage venture capital for crypto networks and founders building The Ownership Economy.

Whats that? I explain here: variant.fund/the-ownership-…

Thread 👇
One of the most remarkable things about the technology we use everyday is the degree to which it is built, operated and even funded by its users.

Think of open source software, user-generated content, marketplaces, crowdfunding.

The Ownership Economy is what comes next.
Ownership has been a powerful tool for incentivizing talented people to dedicate their skills to building startups in Silicon Valley.

While this model has been incredibly successful, it hasn’t been accessible to all.
Read 24 tweets
27 May
Opinion: like most waves in tech, developers and technologists were first to harness the innovation of crypto tokens & markets to drive the development of community owned products at scale.

This idea is at the core of the success of #Bitcoin & Ethereum, but it doesn't end there.
Ever since @UniswapProtocol tokenized $SOCKS (unisocks.exchange) I've been excited about the potential to democratize financial inclusion while also to supporting creators, founders, their projects and ideas.
Thats why its exciting to see @withFND launch today—a platform for creators to mint tokens that represent a piece of their work.

withfoundation.com
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8 Mar
Crypto has a traditional business model.
Whats new is who benefits from it.

A good mental model is API microservices:

Stripe 💳 Pay per charge
Twilio ☎️ per SMS

dAPIs

#Bitcoin Pay per transfer
Ethereum 👩‍💻 Pay per function
Compound 💸 Pay per borrow
Uniswap 💹Pay per exchange
Stripe or Twilio shares are valuable because they capture a fee stream.

Most crypto tokens will similarly be valuable because they are backed by fees in a marketplace.

Whats new is that tokens can be distributed like packets, directly to users who make the service valuable.
Fees only make sense if you’ve got enough defensibility to charge them and still win.

In each of the dAPI examples given there are network effects at play.

Network effects create switching costs, which in turn, create an opportunity to extract a margin by charging a fee.
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4 Feb
If you're not as deep in crypto, you might've missed that headz are minting their own personal tokens.

Redeemable for access to the creator, personal tokens are adjacent to more mainstream tech trends like #PassionEconomy memberships & ISAs

Call it #PatronageforProfit ?
Buying personal tokens is a bit like paying for a Substack newsletter, or backing a Kickstarter project.

Value accrues to the creator, and can be used to fund the production of products or services.

The key difference is access to upside (+downside), like an ISA.
As there's more demand for a creator's token, price should increase.

A patron who doesn't redeem can profit from that appreciation by selling a fraction of their tokens.

But is #PatronageforProfit a feature or bug?
For whom?
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