Jacob is a cofounder of Zora, an onchain social network revealing new opportunities to create, connect, and earn from your life online. It's new app could be compared to a crypto version of Instagram. Before creating Zora, Jacob was a product designer and product manager at Coinbase. Follow Jacob on Warpcast @jacob and on X @js_horne.
0:00 - Jacob’s journey to creating Zora
11:40 - The evolution of monetizing information
15:15 - Business model experimentation at Zora
25:39 - The spectrum of fungibility
35:34 - Zora’s fee structure and incentive model
43:41 - Collecting and aggregating within Zora
48:18 - Quantity vs quality of posts on Zora
1:00:35 - Introducing Sparks as a new unit of account
1:10:14 - The story behind Zora’s Zorb logo
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