Linda Xie on How Mini-Apps Are Helping Farcaster Take on Web2 Social Media - Ep. 838
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If you're building a consumer app, like the single most important thing is getting your initial user base. And so it's a really hard like cold start problem. And we went through that ourselves of like, hey, like now I've released this app and now I'm just gonna start posting about it nonstop and, like, getting people to download it or use it. But if it's within something like Farcaster where it's, you know, you're never leaving the app, a user doesn't have to drop off and, like, download something, it's using the wallet that's already embedded to, like, participate in the app and then users ca
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ecosystem lead at Farcaster.
Welcome, Linda. Thanks. Developer ecosystem lead at Farcaster. Welcome, Linda. Thanks.
Thanks for having me. I've
wanted to have you on the show for years, so I'm very excited to have this chat. I know you're doing things with Farcaster now. Previously, you were a crypto VC, but I wanna start at the very beginning. So take us all the way back. How did you even get into crypto?
Oh, wow. Okay. I first came across crypto in 02/2011. I was in college, and my friend came up to me and was like, hey. Have you heard of the Silk Road, and have you heard of Bitcoin? And I was like, no. What is that? And I was very intrigued by the concept, but thought it was pretty shady at the time because it was all associated with darknet markets. And so I didn't end up getting us like, buying it or anything, but I thought the technology was really interesting. And I ended up writing an econ paper with the same person in it in college and kinda just, like, followed it along over time. And
what were you doing there?
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