Are you ready for the next iteration of Where It Happens? Greg Isenberg is now the host of the podcast, which will be focused on catching up with incredible guests at the intersection of community, commerce, and content. Today, Greg is joined by Danny Trinh, a new product designer at Snapchat, who learned to build with Greg through shared suffering and triumphs. Together they share the importance of maintaining a beginner's mindset, offer their lessons learned for the next generation, and explain why the best advice can be to trust your gut.
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SHOW NOTES
00:00 Sneak Peek
00:47 Greg’s First Trip to Silicon Valley
03:42 The WHY behind TRWIH Podcast
05:21 The Future of Web Invites: Partiful
10:55 The Eventbrite UX
12:02 Why Web3 is like Web2
16:08 Building Web2 in SF circa 2008
23:18 Missing Vine
25:08 Lessons to the Next Generation
29:30 VCs versus Builders
39:39 100% Unfiltered
44:37 Driving Tanks
48:07 Danny Trinh’s State of Web3
56:02 Experimenting in Web3
1:02:50 Finding Danny Trinh
1:05:47 Thanks for Listening
