The Curious Learners
I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world. The Curious Learners is an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started. Looking forward to a long journey together.
The Curious Learners
Will Robinson | Accelerating Web3 | The Curious Learners Ep. 28
Hi everyone. My guest today is Will Robinson from Alliance DAO. He is the head of Community at Alliance, where he helps web3 founders build amazing companies.
Will was in gaming until his move into crypto in 2017 with the help of a healthy! dose of push from his cousin Dan Robinson. In fact, he is the only person that I know with a PhD in game design.
Will and I had an eye-opening discussion (for me of course) on his journey from gaming to Blockchain, knowledge accumulation in crypto and the mission of Alliance:
- His path into PhD in game design? --> Slight re-adjustment after starting research in film studies. Why film studies in the first place? I didn't ask, but I guess it is because he is a humanist philosopher, which he mentioned at some point on the show:)
- The most surprising thing in crypto? --> All the breakthrough technology behind it and the new innovation that keeps happening on a weekly basis!
- Transformation in gaming enabled by Blockchain? --> Not one single thing, but it is the magic of Blockchain that nothing else could do.
- Biggest innovation in gaming to come from? --> Zero-knowledge to act as the catalyst and save a lot of space on the network.
- Game play vs. incentives? --> All great platforms historically have first and foremost built a perfect game, the IP that people didn't stop buying. Hence it is the former.
- North Star metric at Alliance? --> Founder NPS! Podcast host comment: I know they are killing it here.
- Alliance's biggest value add to founders? --> The team with all sorts of different expertise (product, business, legal, marketing, etc.) that mentors founders.
- Dream project that Will looks forward to founders building? --> On-chain gaming projects and companies that want to be a little bad! (you will certainly have to listen this part to truly figure out the latter:))
- Most curious about? --> Account abstraction, personas and social recovery. Podcast host comment: to be game changer for the adoption of crypto!
Please enjoy my conversation with Will Robinson.
