In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with James Young from Abridged, the developers of the popular Collab.land software that many digital communities are using to engage, grow, and coordinate their members. In the conversation, James traces his arc from software engineer on Farmville in the early days of Zynga and how those experiences with Web 2.0 companies shaped his focus on the promise of user-owned digital communities, eventually settling on tools that help communities own their own data and experiences. This episode provides a peek at the future of work enabled by data economies in web3 and will be useful to founders and entrepreneurs who want insights into how the unique interactions enabled by web3 wallets can create new trails of data and economic value both for users and platforms.

Here are the show notes:

• James talks on decentralizing collabland
• James on Twitter
• The DAO and the DAO Hack
• MolochDAO explainer
• Episode 2 of this podcast on exit to community with Pia Mancini
• Episode 1 of this podcast on exit to community with Nathan Schneider
• What is Collab.land?