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Women in Web3 - Issue #35
Welcome to Women in Web3! I’m Carly from Weld Recruiting and this is the 35th edition of our weekly get-down!
Starting with some exciting personal news…
Somehow, someway… thanks to all of you amazing guests and supporters and subscribers of #womeninweb3, and of course my crazy boss Matthew McSpadden at Weld Recruiting for pushing me to start using this platform and podcasting and diving into the wild world of #web3…
I got accepted as 1 of 120 LinkedIn Creators across the US for this year’s Technology & Innovation Program! #licreatoraccelerator
No clue what to expect yet. But we started this week.
What do you want to see more of? Women in Web3 highlights? Web3 jobs?
Now, 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
BFF was on fire with content this week: From ‘WTF is Gas Fees’ with Serise Lange, to the low-down on how Jay-Z’s former entertainment lawyer is helping women get rich in web3 (👀 Jennifer Justice) + Ty Haney joined the community to give discounts to her brand we’ve talked about here many a times – Joggy! (Does any other NFT project have a Perk Shop? Bc it is def one of my #favethings #YFT)
Metaverse queen Cathy Hackl was on CNBC chatting about Meta’s Quest Pro headset
Barbie and Boss Beauties launched an NFT project
Sarah Guo launched Conviction
Lindsey McInerney spoke to CoinDesk’s Jeff Wilser on why entertainment will bring the first 100 million people to web3
Headline3 named me alongside the likes of John Kraski, Charles Adkins, Cathy Hackl + Tiago Amaral for #web3 teachers (bonkers, I know!)
They are all amazing content creators and educators of #web3, so naturally I was beyond honored to see my own name on that list. Sharing it here so you can check out everyone + let me know who else should be added!
Carly Long (say wuuuut?!)
🎙Snippets From The Weld Podcast Network
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ICYMI – Here are some of our most downloaded episodes:
Learning + Unlearning, Education + Onboarding People Into Web3, A Community’s Secret Sauce, and Elevating Creators in the Web3 Space with Debbie Soon
Ty Haney on Building Two New Companies After Outdoor Voices, Pairing Web3 Incentives With Brand Loyalty, and the Difference Between Web2 and Web3
Launching Vayner3 Alongside Gary Vaynerchuk, Digital Wallets and Your Social Identity, and Self-Discovery Through Web3 with Avery Akkineni
Brittney Kelley on Navigating The Wild West of Web3 with Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley + Their Chill Cowboy Country Club
The Meta Angels Wishing Well, Community Building in Web3, and Using Your NFT Community as a Network with Allyson Downey
NFT Accessories You Can Actually Wear, Metaverse Moms + Bringing The Fashion World Together Via Web3 with Michelle Reeves
💼 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:
🚀 Senior Frontend Engineer – with experience building web apps in React/Javascript/Typescript/Nextjs/GraphQL – up to $180K + equity
🚀 Senior Backend Engineer – with experience in building distributed systems at scale, Elixir/Go/Python/Rust/GraphQL, and reducing code complexities across the API – up to $200K + equity
🚀 Blockchain Engineer – with experience building dApps and smart contracts, and using Solidity/Nodejs/Unity or other related languages – up to $175K + tokens
🚀 Web3 Software Engineer – with experience in Solana/Rust, DeFi, protocol design, and experience writing numerical applications – up to $180K + tokens
🚀 Principal Engineer/Architect – 5+ years of experience in senior software engineering, 2-3 years of experience in bringing new data-centric products/tech to market – up to $200K + equity
🚀 Senior Software Engineer (Data) – 4+ years of building products with massive amounts of data – up to $190K + equity
🚀 Software Development Engineer - Levels I, II, III – these are in office in Nashville, with full stack development experience and knowledge of JavaScript/Nodejs/React
🚀 Senior Software Engineer – looking for full stack folks based in the UK who have built and scaled mobile applications and are passionate about NFTs and tokenomics – up to £105K + stock options
🚀 Head of Design – 4+ years in a design role with both mobile branding and product design experience for consumer social applications – up to $200K + equity
🚀 Product Manager – based in the UK, with product management experience shipping consumer-facing products and a deep interest in web3 – up to £85K + stock options
Not ready to dive into web3 yet? We’ve also got Paid Media Specialist + Paid Media Manager roles, and Senior M&A Analyst and M&A Diligence Manager roles with great companies!
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)
Web3 devs are more active than ever (clearly by all the openings listed above! ^^) + Magic Square is building a web3-friendly app store for devs
Steve Aoki + Deadfellaz released an exclusive fashion capsule – take a look
Meta wants you to work in VR. Alex Barinka shares what that’d actually be like: “You’re floating without legs and you don’t know what time it is. Take notes on your laptop at your own risk.”
One of America’s oldest banks joined the crypto revolution
A16z Crypto led a $14M bet on Rye, a new web3 commerce startup by Justin Kan
Google partnered with Coinbase to accept crypto payments for cloud services
Marriott’s web3 strategy, explained
A beverage company named ‘Neuro Brand’ bought a Bored Ape for $1M – anyone know why?
Warner Music Group launched a partnership with OpenSea
There’s a Baby Shark sandbox web3 game in development. Parents everywhere, you’ve been warned (doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy launched a web3 search startup, nyxz – with $40M in funding from Coinbase, Sequoia and Greylock
📚 NFT Explained (Ok + all the other Web3 jargon you’re not sure about)
NFTs transform how fans bet on upcoming sports stars
The CEO and co-founder of FANtium Jonathan Ludwig says NFTs based on athlete success give sports fans an “attractive return on investment.”
The Potential of web3 ~ by McKinsey
“Digital assets and the technologies underlying them still have the potential to transform business models across sectors.”
See the 14-slide pitch deck a former Citi banker used to raise $26 million for his web3 startup
The web3 startup called Calaxy raised $26 million this June and was described by its founders Solo Ceesay, an ex-Citi investment banker, and NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie as “OnlyFans or Patreon” but uses cryptocurrency.
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This is what your email could look like in web3
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