
The Outlier Ventures Podcast
The Outlier Ventures Podcast is your gateway to the future of tech and culture—from Web3 to AI and beyond. This is the home for our deep dives, including The Post Web Audio Documentary, The Post Web Unplugged, and exclusive interviews from Riyadh and accelerator programs worldwide. Each episode brings insights from founders, experts, and visionaries shaping what’s next.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal or financial advice. Consult a qualified professional for guidance.
Latest episodes

Feb 7, 2022 • 33min
Metaverse Hiring, with Esther O’Callaghan of Hundo
Today on The Metaverse Podcast, we talk to Esther O'Callaghan, founder of hundo.careers, a progressive jobs platform designed to connect forward-thinking employers with Gen Z talent, with the intention of ending youth unemployment, due to a broken recruitment industry model.
Esther and Jamie Burke discuss being a female founder, growing up in Blackpool, the breakdown between education and work structure, CVs being useless for assessing youth for work, the importance of educational boot camps, utilising Web3 for the hiring process, utilising P2E for 'learn to earn', and more! Don't miss this episode.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
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Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
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More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Jan 31, 2022 • 43min
Tokens Inside NFTs, with Ben Lakoff of Charged Particles
On this week's episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we're talking to Ben Lakoff, Co-Founder of Charged Particles, a new protocol that allows users to put digital assets inside NFTs - ERC20, ERC721 or ERC1155 - giving creators the power to utilise 'nested' NFTs.
Ben and Jamie Burke discuss Ben's background and origin, DeFi intersecting the NFT marketplace, the loneliness of being an entrepreneur, NFTs holding smart wallets, games changing through MetaFi, generating interest through digital assets, working on the bleeding edge of decentralised technology, and more.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Jan 24, 2022 • 12min
NFT Storage, with Jon Victor of Protocol Labs
The last of our NFCastle recordings, we talk to Jon Victor, Product Manager at Protocol Labs, an open-source R&D lab primarily focussed on the Filecoin network. They build protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet.
Today, Jon and Jamie Burke discuss the fundamental resource of the internet, waking up to work in Web3, creating implementations of IPFS, cheapening storage through through the crypto-economic model, building protocols without extensive upfront work, and more.
The Outlier Venture's Filecoin Base Camp reopens for their second round of applications soon, if you're a startup looking for your next step, check it out here: https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/filecoin-base-camp/
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Jan 17, 2022 • 16min
Early Funding, with Maria Shen of Electric Capital
We're back with one of our last recordings from NFCastle, with Maria Shen of Electric Capital, an early-stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces.
Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of Bambify, which helped SMBs easily form supply chains with manufacturers across the globe. She has also worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices.
Today, Jamie Burke & Maria discuss startup acceleration, funding for Web3 projects, faith in founders, the investment thesis, and the importance of regulators for clarity.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Jan 10, 2022 • 49min
Token Sales, with Graham Jenkin of CoinList
On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we are joined by Graham Jenkin, CEO of CoinList, a regulated platform giving users access to the best new crypto projects before large exchanges. helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Celo, Algorand, and Dapper grow.
Graham talks to Outlier Venture's CEO Jamie Burke on the early days of CoinList, the recent capital injection into Web3, tokens as an incentive mechanism, working at AngelList, access to ICOs, working with regulators, and more.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Dec 20, 2021 • 49min
P2E 2.0 - A New Economic Model for Gaming, the Audiobook
In today’s digitised world, gaming is becoming increasingly more relevant. The average gamer spends 8+ hours per week playing in the digital realm. For today’s SPECIAL EPISODE, we bring you our very own Jan Baeriswyl with the unified audiobook version of his 3 part research piece for Outlier, readable here: https://outlierventures.io/research/p2e-2-0-a-new-economic-model-for-gaming-based-on-crypto-tokens/ We’ll be back after Christmas with your regularly scheduled podcasts, but for now, enjoy!
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 2min
Connected Blockchains, with Ethan Buchman of Cosmos
On this Episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we're joined by Ethan Buchman, CEO and Co-founder of the Cosmos Network, an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, connected using IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol.
Today, Ethan and Jamie discuss making blockchain development available to startups, corporations as representatives of society, platos cave, cybernetic literature, cooperatives and localism, the internet as a revolution of biological communication, and more!
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Dec 6, 2021 • 20min
Meta Identity, with Gmoney
On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we talk to gmoney.eth, a self-described futurist and disruptor, he is the founder of Puertro Rico's first ever summit on NFTs, Metaverso, and The Cutting Edge podcast, which airs live on Twitter spaces before being pulled to all good podcasting platforms.
Jamie and Gmoney discuss moving from traditional finance to DeFi and NFTs, the importance of digital identity, acting as an anonymous influencer, putting money at risk to learn about crypto, squiggle fandom, the silent NFT crash, and more.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Nov 29, 2021 • 39min
Commodifying Hashpower, with Ryan Condron of Lumerin Protocol
Monday morning Metaverse Podcast, we're with Ryan Condron of Titan Industries & Lumerin Protocol, who are building the hash power marketplace to make Bitcoin and POW crypto mining as highly optimized, efficient, and decentralized as possible.
Ryan and Jamie Burke discuss crypto-mining evolving from a hobby into an industry, its role as secure infrastructure for the metaverse, evolving with renewable energy, the mining crackdown in China, how to tokenise hash-power, and more.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!

Nov 22, 2021 • 20min
DAOs (for Collaborators), with Will Papper of SyndicateDAO
This SPECIAL EPISODE is brought to you from the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, we’re joined by Will Papper, co-founder of SyndicateDAO and creator of $AGLD. SyndicateDAO works as a decentralized investing protocol & social network, that's transforming how the world creates value.
In this episode of The Metaverse Show, Jamie Burke and Will Papper discuss the importance of DAOs to a decentralised network, whether Ethereum is a DAO, the overnight success of LOOT and $AGLD, the long term future of NFTs as a collaborative tool, and more.
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Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth.
Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/
Questions?
Join our community:
Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm
Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures
Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/
More - https://outlierventures.io/links/
For further Open Metaverse content:
Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/
Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events
Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/
Thanks for listening!