The crypto community all the celebs are joining, a chat w/ BFF's Jaime Schmidt, the Miami madness about to ensue, + web3 jobs w/ MITRE
Women in Web3 - Issue #37
Welcome to Women in Web3! I’m Carly from Weld Recruiting and this is the 37th edition of our weekly get-down!
In the #licreatoraccelerator program this week, Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry talked to us about the power of consistency with your content.
For my #womeninweb3 subscribers, you might have noticed that this is an area that I struggle with when it comes to getting the newsletter out each week! #guilty
I’m always trying to improve (both for you all and myself), so I’m curious - as long as it’s out once per week, do you care which day? Would you rather it be out on a Monday vs. Friday? Or are you cool with a little mystery action of when it will pop up?
+ 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
🗓 You’re Gonna Want To Pencil These In…
📰 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
Serena Williams opened up about being a VC:
“We can’t have a VC company and not have a foot in Web3 at all, because it is the future…”
Gracy Chen, on social trading, crypto exchanges and Bitget
Kelley Griggs made an amazing list of women in the startup space in Nashville, some web2, some web3, but all equally dope!
Emily Carrig of True Stars NFT shared her artist story + how she found her voice.
Wirex revealed the longlist for their 2022 Rising Women in Crypto Power List!
Madonna + Beeple = a new NFT
Sara Baumann from Women + Weapons talks about pursuing what you want
Somi Arian of FemPeak broke it down:
Web3 is about ownership
Web2 is read + write
Web1 is read-only
Vayner3’s Katrina Gamueda-Smith shared on GM, BFF, published by Caroline Fairchild, this week:
“I tell my friends that they do get Web3. There is always an entry point for everyone. It doesn’t mean quit your job. It means reading an article, trusting that there is something out there for you and finding the thing that speaks to you.”
🎙Snippets From The Weld Podcast Network
This community is so kind.
So many people I’ve yet to meet IRL offered me birthday wishes this week – and that makes you feel some kinda special for sure!! 🎉 (Thank you!)
A lot of these connections have come through #womeninweb3 – and the crazy thing is, we’re just at the beginning. I see the impact, I feel the impact. And I want to dream even bigger and reach even more people in this next year.
So to help us get there, I’d love to ask you this today:
Show your support for #womeninweb3 by rating, reviewing + subscribing to our podcast and newsletter. 🤗
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Now for this week’s guest…
Jaime Schmidt is the Co-Founder of BFF, a decentralized brand aimed at helping women get educated, connected, and financially rewarded in crypto. Together with Co-Founder Brit Morin, they’ve created an open-access community for the crypto curious that is based around their ‘BFF Friendship Bracelet’ NFT.
Before Jaime journeyed into Web3, she created a company in her kitchen, Schmidt’s Naturals, which grew into a household name lining the shelves at Target, Costco, Whole Foods, Walmart, CVS, and eventually being acquired by Unilever.
Nowadays, Jaime is also the Co-Founder of Color Capital, an investment fund specializing in Web3 and consumer goods, as well as the Co-Creator of Crypto Packaged Goods, a community and NFT project bridging the consumer packaged goods industry with emerging opportunities in Web3.
Jaime joins the Women in Web3 podcast to talk about:
- How BFF came to be, bringing together 100+ female and non-binary leaders like Mila Kunis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyra Banks, Paris Hilton, and Kate Hudson;
- Creating a community that emphasizes accessibility and onboarding for women who are crypto curious;
- The new BFF Clubs, progress on BFF-Con, and all the utilities that BFF offers;
- And how she juggles it all – from BFF to Crypto Packaged Goods to Color Capital and more.
💼 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 iOS Engineer - experience with gameplay design and shipping products in iOS preferred - fully remote, competitive salary
🚀 Senior UX/UI Designer - experience with consumer-based mobile products, rapid iterations and prototyping, and map-based or gaming-focused apps preferred - up to £70K + stock options, hybrid (London, UK)
🚀 DevOps Engineer - experience with iOS, Unreal, Git, and cloud environments preferred - fully remote, competitive salary
🚀 Senior Backend Engineer - experience with cloud-based infrastructures and games preferred - fully remote, competitive salary
🚀 Gameplay Engineer - experience with Unreal, shipping apps and mobile platform experience is preferred - fully remote, competitive salary
🚀 Web3 Cybersecurity Technologist - experience with the crypto ecosystem at both macro and micro levels, cybersecurity and adversarial thinking preferred - remote or hybrid, competitive salary
🚀 Lead Web3 Sociotechnical Risk Analyst - experience with web3 + crypto, data science, computational finance, prior research + publications preferred - remote or hybrid, competitive salary
🚀 Web3 Economist - knowledge of web3 trends (investments, major players, etc) and ability to analyze literature for national security/compliance/security angles preferred - remote or hybrid, competitive salary
🚀 Founding Designer - 4+ years in a design role with both mobile branding and product design experience for consumer social applications – up to $200K + equity, Nashville-based
🚀 web3 Product Manager - with product management experience shipping consumer-facing products and a deep interest in web3 – up to £85K + stock options, hybrid (London, UK)
🚀 Flow Blockchain / Cadence web3 Engineer - with experience building dApps and smart contracts, and using Cadence/Solidity/Nodejs/Unity or other related languages – up to $175K + tokens, remote (USA)
🚀 Software Development Engineer - Levels I, II, III – with full stack development experience and knowledge of JavaScript/Nodejs/React – $85k to $135k dependent on experience, Nashville-Based
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 :)
🗓 You're Gonna Want To Pencil These In...
SO many events going on + coming up! (Does anyone have a good list? Especially for the ones happening in Miami during Art Basel??)
Here’s a few highlights:
Fashioning Our World with Kamilah Sanders, as part of Nashville Design Week - Nov. 2 - 7 PM
Web3 Onboarding with TIALS.World, who’s mint is live now! - Oct. 30 - 9 PM
Our next event at Vanderbilt’s Innovation Center: The Wond'ry on how web3 technologies are transforming data ownership, in partnership with some amazing local web3 folks in Nashville - Nov. 1
AllBright’s Women in Web3 party + panel before NFT London - Nov. 3 - 6 PM
The World of Women Gala at Art Basel, in partnership with tokenproof - Dec. 1
London Women Leading Web3 x NFT NYC’s art exhibition and showcase - Nov. 1
Sionis in the City, a web3 in Tennessee meetup with some super cool partners - Nov. 19 - noon
📰 In Other News… (NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
Season 2 of Toonstar’s ‘The Gimmicks’ is bringing new Latino voices into the ring
2..5 million Reddit users have opened a crypto wallet since their NFT marketplace launch in July
Disney launched a web3 experience to celebrate 100 years of Disney Music
Bored Ape holders traveling by air now have free global VIP lounge access
L'Oreal and Meta launched a metaverse startup accelerator
Rimowa and RTFKT revealed a luxury phygital luggage collab
Sweet wants to do “more good with great technology” – starting with an NFT-driven Hurricane Ian relief project (+ a crypto fundraising crash course for nonprofits, from givepact)
Puma returned to the fashion arena with a web3 layer
Vayner3’s Naimul Huq believes that “over time, crypto means freedom”
Pacsun, Smiley + Digify partnered for an experiential retail NFT drop
📚 NFT Explained (Ok + all the other Web3 jargon you’re not sure about)
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.
What Solana Spaces Means For The Future Of Crypto-Based Retail
The Solana Embassy is the second location to open by a company called Solana Spaces. It was founded earlier this year by Vibhu Norby in collaboration with The Solana Foundation, which funded and incubated the store.
The Discord community where marketers learn about Web3
At more than 600 members, Jump focuses on discussions about “the intersection of crypto and Web3 and marketing.”
That's all for now folks! See you next week.
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