Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Oh Sh!t” Web3 Moment | Where It Happens Podcast

0:00out you mentioned your process of learning about the one once you fit once you kind of start to have that inkling do you just surround yourself or talk to the smartest people you know to figure out what are they excited about what are they working on on the weekends so that you can then go learn about those things like how do you actually get that first spark of curiosity either a random tweet comment on my social cold email because of where i am in my career or to your point no question kevin rose one of the smarter consumer internet people i know when we were talking about x-men comics

0:34and jordan rookie cards when he said hey do you know what a crypto do you have a crypto punk and i said i'm not sure what that is and he said you remember cryptokitties i was like of course like i had already known about top shot i met rohan a couple months before top shot launched i knew nfts were brewing i was busy it was the holidays last year last year was still very hardcore covid so i was trying to navigate my company um but as soon as he said that i'm like you know what i'm gonna dig in a little bit deeper and so yes

1:04and what's been really ironic whether it's dave morin whether you know it's kevin colerin whether it's msg or harper creed or you know aaron battalion you know scott belski mike lazarou all these people that succeeded in web 2 right that i respected and thought were thoughtful miraculously in january february all circling around like buzzers i'm getting a text from friends that i haven't talked to in six months six years because we've all been a little bit out of the white hot moment of 2007 to 11 of

1:42web 2. sure enough even even people that aren't in it right now that are a little bit more discreet which is why i'm not going to mention them um who really made some serious wins in web 2. even they reached out in february march and say they're kind of demotivated or focused on other things but even they were like hey what is this thing uh you could see the spidey senses of the people that really understand when [ __ ] changes and then a couple of icons again i won't mention them who really didn't get it and came back to me in the last six to eight weeks and said [ __ ] and i

2:18remember like being disappointed in them like oh i lost they lost their edge or they don't give a [ __ ] or or one of two things they got soft because they have too much money or the better version they made so much money they're on to fixing the environment or the political system they went out to risk it right so you know it's it's really fun to watch humans evolve but yes keeping people again when you guys get to my age you've got that extra generation you're going to have your whole little crew of the people you've decided over this decade are smart are good and you'll find it fascinating

2:51in 20 years when the next thing pops off you'll be surprised how many of them are like it's been a renaissance for some of my good friends of web 2 and we're enjoying it because it feels like the old days right you can you can it feels like web2o's beginning when nobody understood social media and content that's exactly what's happening with nfts