OpenSea is a company in the zeitgeist. It feels like it came out of nowhere. And they actually spent something like a year to two years grinding it out with this really simple website that just let you buy and sell NFTs. They didn't build their own wallet. You have to use a third party wallet. There's all these other things they didn't build. By grinding away and being super focused on the simple use case, they got something that people wanted.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel talk about OpenSea, Gusto, and the importance of building simple products that solve a real problem.
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