Henri is an ex-research scientist at Protocol Labs. He Co-Founded Privy, which provides web3 projects such as Friend.tech, t2 & Shibuya with seamless onboarding & embedded wallets.

In this episode, we dive into the early MVPs of Privy, learn how it works under the hood, how they managed to design such as smooth UX & more.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 A few words of intro

01:56: Why Henri started working on Privy

06:02 The early days of Privy

11:37 How have they built their MVP

13:15 Why did they make a pivot despite having an interest in their product

15:41 Which features helped them to tip the scales

22:34 How Privy works under the hood

34:04 Most wallets were built with L1s in mind

37:23 How do embedded wallets work

48:24 What would happen with wallets if Privy went out of business

50:36 How do they acquire their users

53:24 What kind of metrics do they follow

57:59 How does the world look like if Privy fulfilled its mission

1:04:25 Where people can learn more about Privy

Collab.Land is a tool for managing web3 communities and bridging them to Discord and Telegram. It has already been used by 50k+ communities and 8M+ wallets. Today we’re talking with Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO of Collab.Land, who shares their project’s story. *** Follow Web3 Talks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/web3talks/ Check kiwinews - a portal with news & content for web3 builders co-founded by Mac: https://kiwinews.xyz/ Reach out to Mac if you want to reach European devs: mac at web3talks.xyz *** TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Teaser about Collab.Land's app marketplace

00:56 Intro

02:41 Abridge's first product, pivots & Collab.Land as a hackathon idea

06:48 Early days of Collab.Land during the COVID pandemic

12:07 How did they "sell" Collab.Land to communities

15:50 Cooperation with Axie Infinity

17:54 How they transitioned from a crypto-native tool to a mass-market tool

28:27 How they designed the marketplace and what kind of Collab.Land apps are already out there

35:51 What's their plan if Farcaster or Lens get more popular

40:07 Why they created their token, how they designed its airdrop and what's the utility

49:47 Biggest surprises when building Collab.Land

57:27 Where people can learn more about Collab.Land

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