Means of Creation Podcast
1) #24 — Evan Britton on creating a Wikipedia for a new generation and bootstrapping an ad-based business
Evan Britton is the founder of Famous Birthdays, the de facto celebrity wikipedia offering 200,000 biographies with a focus on Gen Z social media stars and creators. Evan founded Famous Birthdays in...Show More
2) Documenting the Creator Economy with Avi Gandhi
Over the past year, several platforms have revised their agreements with creators. Twitch slashed its streamers’ revenue share from 70% to 50%. Substack canceled creator health-insurance stipends whil...Show More
3) AI music with Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, and Jesse Walden
Last month, in April 2023, a song that used the AI-generated voices of Drake and The Weeknd went wildly viral across social media before being taken down from streaming services for breaching copyrigh...Show More
4) Social tokens, NFTs, and lessons from Uber ft. Matt Alston
Two years ago, it was predicted that every creator would have a social token, which would enable fans to bet on that creator and invest in their success. That clearly hasn’t panned out, and in their p...Show More
5) TikTok’s Creator Strategy ft. Paul Marvucic, Head of Product Marketing
TikTok has been in the news for a lot of reasons recently, but one thing that they’ve done well is pioneering various initiatives that moved the creator economy forward, like the TikTok Creator Fund, ...Show More
6) DAOs Explained ft. Tracheopteryx
Historically, humans have organized themselves in a variety of ways: from tribes and councils, to LLCs, and C-Corps. But these forms of organization tend to be centralized in nature, and feel slightly...Show More
7) The Rise of Fashion NFTs ft. Dani Loftus
How we portray ourselves online has become almost as relevant as how we portray ourselves IRL: Bored Apes and CryptoPunks are the new tailored suits and designer handbags. In years past, digital s...Show More
8) Ethereum Explained ft. Preethi Kasireddy
In this episode of our web3 explainer series, we take on an ambitious task: explaining Ethereum from the ground up. We unpack what Ethereum is, how it works, and why it matters. We spoke to Preethi...Show More
9) Is Crypto *Actually* Destroying the Planet?
In this second episode of our new web3 explainer series we ask an important, and hard to answer question: is crypto *actually* destroying the planet? Over the last year, crypto has witnessed mainst...Show More
10) DeFi Explained ft. Nat Eliason
For the next few episodes of Means of Creation, we are piloting a series of web3 explainers—unpacking some of the fundamental concepts of web3, from first principles. The goal is to explore various to...Show More