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justin
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Founded a lot of companies and former YC partner
- justin parentWhy don’t they deserve to see the light of day? Maybe the market gets to decide what “sucks” or doesn’t. More ideas in the marketplace gives users more choice.
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- 1) Games will move from closed economies to open economies, just as they transitioned to free-to-play 15 years ago. Blockchain is just the technology through which this will happen.
2) This transition will take 10 years - we are building for that timeline
3) We raised a ton of money and have a lean team, and can exist for >5 years without revenue. We are keeping our team lean to maintain that level of runway.
4) For whatever reason, people are still buying gaming NFTs right now (as of this week). Of course, that may change quickly.
- We are still hiring at Fractal (NFT marketplace for gaming assets). We're a revenue generating company with fewer than 15 team members that just raised $35m in new funding. Founded by experienced founders. https://jobs.lever.co/fractal-is/
- Even startups not aiming to be the next FAANG company have trouble estimating revenue, product development time, etc. It's just extremely hard to know all the unknowns when you are starting a new business, especially since it is likely that you are only an expert in one of the required fields (eng, product, marketing, sales) to bring your product to market and will have to learn everything else on the fly. Most business plans for startups are useless.
- Fractal | Many Eng Roles | Remote | Fulltime
I'm Justin, cofounder of Twitch, former YC partner, and founder of many more startups. I am cofounder of a new company, Fractal, an NFT marketplace for gamers to discover, buy and sell gaming NFTs. We just closed a $35M seed round from Paradigm and Multicoin today. The company is fully remote and we are having a lot of fun building in the crypto space. Culturally, we optimize to reduce the time between talking to customers, coming up with product ideas, and execution. This is a product and engineering-led, customer-focused company.
We are hiring many eng roles. No previous crypto experience required. The team is mostly from Google and Stripe.
Fundraising post: https://fractal.medium.com/fractal-raises-35-million-dollar-... Job roles: https://jobs.lever.co/fractal-is
- Operator | Fully Remote | Full Stack & Backend Engineer | Full-time
Operator Protocol is an open and decentralized protocol for e-commerce. Anyone can participate as a buyer or seller, and the network will be governed by the marketplace participants. Instead of a giant, monopolistic rent-seeker owning the customer and taking a large toll on every transaction, OP is an alternative for buyers and sellers to diversify off Amazon and other centralized marketplaces.
Our founding team consists of veteran founders: Justin Kan co-founded Twitch and Fractal, has been investing in crypto since 2013, and has been an advisor to decentralized projects like Theta and Audius; Jamie Quint comes from an e-commerce background but has also led Growth @Notion and monetization @Reddit; Robin Chan co-founded Fractal and Operator v1, founded and sold a mobile gaming company, XPD Media, to Zynga, and was previously head of Zynga Asia; and Tikhon Bernstam founded and sold the cloud application platform, Parse, to Facebook, and also founded Scribd. Our CEO, Arjun Bhargava, led Growth Engineering at Reddit and was previously at Goldman Sachs.
We’re looking for strong, motivated, and talented full stack and backend engineers to build out the future of e-commerce with us. Previous experience in web 3.0/crypto tech is not required but is a plus.
If interested, apply on our job board:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/operator/f4c81ed8-2169-480c-a276-1b...
See our Medium article introducing Operator:
https://medium.com/@Operator/introducing-operator-3e66cba9a1...
Visit us at https://www.operator.com
- I made a video of these toys, which were hilarious to play with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJye7Xfmys
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- Actually housing could be a good investment and affordable. It just can’t be both in the same place. If we continued to make new cities with tons of housing and accepted that all the people who couldn’t afford housing should move there, we could accomplish both goals.
For the record I think this is a terrible idea.
- Atrium | Full Stack Engineers, Integrations Engineer, Security Engineer, Engineering Manager | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full Time | React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Postgres
https://www.atrium.co/careers#current-openings
Atrium is the most client-centric platform providing legal services and applications to fast-growing companies. We’re an integrated team of engineers, product managers, designers, attorneys, and paralegals working to dramatically improve legal services for high-growth companies.
Our initial focuses are on products that help startups from the start to finish of venture financings and assist with their repeatable corporate legal needs. With these products, Atrium’s 200+ clients have raised over $500M in venture capital. Thanks to Atrium’s technology, legal processes are highly efficient and user-friendly, guided by web-based tools that often result in closing deals and completing legal work significantly faster and with greater accuracy than traditional law firms.
We’re based in San Francisco and have $75.5M in funding from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Greylock, and more. Atrium aims to disrupt Big Law and the $160 billion corporate legal services market.
- Easy for Terence McKenna to say when he isn’t the one living the life of a nomad, or any other culture where those in it want to transition to a modern lifestyle. “The sorts of people who want to turn the entire planet into an international airport arrival concourse” are largely the entire planet.