Hi Awesome People!
I’ve missed your smiling faces and emoji responses 🤗
I basically fell off a cliff in August of 2021. And I have a confession to make.
TL;DR: I fell down the Web3 rabbit hole, pivoted entirely to Web3, and now am relaunching this email to focus on Web3 talent. Join our new talent community here.
Woahhhh….wait, wft happened to you?!
Confession: Down the rabbit hole & intellectual honesty 🤓
I finished deploying Awesome People Fund I in early 2021 and took a step back. I wasn’t having fun anymore.
I wanted to keep investing, but I didn’t want to build a traditional VC fund. Traditional VC is a commodity. I wanted to invest with talented people who I love and respect. I wanted to prove that nice helpful people can win big.
I discovered DAOs. I spent over a year doing market research. I accidentally started a DAO, DAO Masters, and raised $150k+ to review DAO tools (back when ETH was worth more 😅).
Maybe I’d turn Awesome People into a DAO? Maybe we could give all our contributors ownership and upside? How exciting!! I became convinced that the future of VC is decentralized.
I rediscovered my love of technology and building. My love of the weird, wacky, and “holy shit… this might just work.” Notably, I angel invested in over a dozen Web3 companies. I didn’t write a single Web2 check.
My Web3 portfolio performed much better than my Web2 portfolio. The exits were bigger and the time to liquidity was shorter. I was in denial for a while, but eventually, the financial reality was impossible to ignore.
Nearly a year later, when I started raising Fund 2, I had a come to Jesus moment. I sent this email to my LPs.
I believe that Web3 is the largest inflection point we’ve seen since mobile. It’s both a tech and cultural inflection point. It touches everything from microfinance to carbon credits. Yesterday’s a16z crypto report highlights some of my favorite real-world impact projects. Web3 spans across sectors, like mobile spans across sectors.
Long story short, Awesome People will focus on Web3 moving forward. My goal is to build a new type of fund and talent network (more on all of this over the next few months 🙏). Fund 2 is secretly live. We’ve invested in 10+ incredible projects. I’ll get around to updating the website at some point.
This newsletter will focus on talent who wants to work in Web3. I won’t be offended if you unsubscribe. Your time is valuable and I totally get it.
Even if you aren’t in Web3, but you’re crypto-curious, I promise you’ll learn something by reading. And I’ll always strive to bring a smile to your face 😀.
Join the Web3 Awesome People Job & Talent Collective to take things to the next level 🥳
I’ve partnered with Pallet to create a job board and talent collective! I’m super excited to make Awesome People Talent more legit! Here’s how to get involved:
Web3 Companies: Sign up for our talent drop here. We’ll email you a list of curated talent for hire every couple of weeks. Use the promo code awesome1month to get your first talent drop free and 1 free job posting!
Talent: If you want to work full-time or part-time work in Web3, apply to join the talent collective here. No Web3 experience is necessary. Moonlighting is welcome. Web3 needs everyone from customer experience experts, to salespeople, to engineers, so please don’t be shy. Really, truly. You can do it 💪
*You can join anonymously so your name doesn’t show up and choose to hide your profile from individual companies.
I’ll curate both the companies and the talent to maintain awesome vibes. I’ll do my best to respond to everyone within 48 hours of applying.
*Notably, my goal is to eventually create a more web3-native business model for Awesome People talent, but we got to start somewhere.
What does this mean for Web2 portfolio companies & talent ❤️?
Absolutely nothing. We continue to have our base of Web2 talent and I’ll continue to love you to the end of time. The same rules always apply, text or call anytime.
Join the Pallet Board, share this & thank you 😘
Make sure to join the talent collective here so we can get this party started! And if you know any awesome talent that wants to work in Web 3, please forward this email and encourage them to join.
Dream team, that’s all for now. As always, lmk if you have any questions or feedback! It feels good to be back. Thank you, thank you!
Stay awesome,
Founder of Awesome People Ventures & Talent
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