Debbie Soon + Randi Zuckerberg Give Web3 a HUG, Paris Hilton's BFF Experience, + Gary Vee's Toy Venture
Women in Web3 - Issue #34
Welcome to Women in Web3! I’m Carly from Weld Recruiting and this is the 34th edition of our weekly get-down!
Scroll through for the usual:
👯 Women in Web3… and Beyond
🎙 Who We’re Talking To On The Weld Podcast Network
💼 The Crypto Recruiter: web3 Job Openings
📰 In Other News… (NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
📚 NFT Explained (Trying to make time to read these!)
👯 Women in Web3… and Beyond
"Try Your Best swaps Instagram for Web3 to connect brands and customers"
Serial entrepreneur Ty Haney is creating avenues for brands and consumers to connect directly — and reward the latter for engagement — while removing the complexities of blockchain tech.
+ Listen to more from Ty on the Women in Web3 podcast! ⤵️
Building two new companies after Outdoor Voices, pairing web3 incentives with brand loyalty, and the difference between web2 and web3.
TIKI on LinkedIn: The Magic Mozart NFT Project w/ Soula Parassidis
Soula Parassidis is everyone’s favorite Greek-Canadian opera-preneur who speaks with the cadence and vocabulary of a 1980s skateboarder in Venice Beach. Totally rad.
+ Listen to more from Soula on the TIKI podcast! ⤵️
TIKI Talk Ep. 31! Soula Parassidis from Living Opera
Opera-preneur Soula Parassidis drops into the Pineapple Studio!
The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business of 2022
Fortune’s list is out now. I wonder how many are at the intersection of web3?
🎙Snippets From The Weld Podcast Network
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Debbie Soon is the Co-Founder of HUG, a social curation and discovery platform which offers an accelerated program for creators in Web3. Born and raised in Singapore, Debbie started her career in the finance and investment realm, worked with M13, and has spent the past four years in a start-up environment. She loves building anything and everything from the ground up, and used her entrepreneurial spirit to launch three multimillion dollar businesses. Now, she finds herself working on her current web3 business alongside Co-Founder Randi Zuckerberg.
Debbie joins the Women in Web3 podcast to talk about:
How she got into the world of web3;
E-commerce and NFTs;
Tips on building communities in web3;
Balancing life and work;
Accessibility and onboarding in web3;
Her personal experience in the space;
And what’s coming next for HUG.
💼 The Crypto Recruiter: web3 Job Openings
Looking for a blockchain recruiter? A #web3 recruiter? We got you. Looking for a blockchain intern job? Salesforce blockchain jobs? web3 python roles? web3 #cybersecurity positions? We got you.
Whether you’re a candidate looking for a new career in web3, or you’re building your team and ready to hire – get in touch! I’d love to help.
We’re hiring:
Blockchain Engineer + Flow/Cadence Developer – with 4+ years of software engineer experience and a focus on dApp and smart contract development [Awesome stealth product]
Product Manager – for folks who want to move to London! With 4+ years of product management experience shipping consumer facing products [HyperSQ]
Senior Frontend Engineer – with experience building web apps in React/Javascript/Typescript/Nextjs/GraphQL, and familiarity building apps with real-time communication and messaging [Bunches]
Senior Backend Engineer – with experience in building distributed systems at scale, Elixir/Go/Python/Rust/GraphQL, and reducing code complexities across the API [Bunches]
Head of Design – with a deep understanding of how brand and product work together from a full user journey, and 4+ years in a product design role [Bunches]
We’re also looking for folks with Media Planning + Paid Social experience, CPA’s with Transaction Advisory + Audit experience, + more!
Get in touch at Carly@WeldRecruiting.co (not .com) if you’re interested in any of these, or just want me to keep your resume on file :)
📰 In Other News… (NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
Fidelity expanded their crypto suite with an Ethereum Index Fund
The Latin Grammy Awards signed a 3-year contract for award show NFTs
McDonald’s will now accept BTC and Tether in Swiss town
VeeFriends toys are coming to Macy’s and Toys'R'Us, just in time for the holidays
Kim K. paid $1.26M in crypto charges settlement
TIME’s President Keith Grossman believes NFTs will disrupt any industry that lacks transparency
Nike’s RTFKT revealed the first look of their real-life cryptokick sneakers
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang joined Pool Data as a strategic adviser
Microsoft led a $20M strategic round for web3 data warehouse Space and Time
📚 NFT Explained (Ok + all the other Web3 jargon you’re not sure about)
From Variant Fund’s Alana Levin.
Fashion’s next Web3 opportunity: Teaching customers about NFTs and crypto wallets
To onboard their existing fashion customers, especially women, to Web3 and metaverse projects, brands are investing in educational resources.
That's all for now folks! See you next week.
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Awesome recap this week. Loved the shares--- found a bunch of tweets I hadn't previously seen. Loved it.