GRTiQ Podcast

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Marissa Posner, Founder and CEO at ChainBrian, a no-code business intelligence tool that allows users to easily search and generate visualizations from blockchain data. You may have already met Marissa or the ChainBrain team at a recent hackathon or during The Graph’s Community Talk, when ChainBrain was highlighted. During this interview, Marissa talks about her background, including time competing in fencing both at NYU and on the Israeli national team, going to work in web2 as a data scientist, launching ChainBrain and how it works (including its use of artificial intelligence), and how ChainBrain not only won some bounties from The Graph, but how it leverages subgraphs. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Lauren Feld. Many of you may already know Lauren, she’s been an active contributor within the industry for many years, including the momentum behind her project, Collective Works. During this interview, Lauren talks about her time working as a Blockchain Strategist consultant at Deliotte, an international consulting firm, and then moving to ConsenSys as a Venture Strategist, and then several incredible stops along the way before she launched Collective Works - Lauren’s venture that oversees the Women’s Collective and Indigo Collective. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Elissa Shevinsky. Elissa is an accomplished business executive, entrepreneur, cybersecurity expert, and author. As you’re about to hear, Elissa’s story is quite incredible and I’m grateful to have had the chance to interview her. During her career, she’s worked alongside many well-known leaders in technology and helped launch a list of projects. We talk about how some early encouragement from Paul Graham got her started as an entrepreneur, the early days of Bitcoin and Ethereum, a stint when she worked as a mentor at the Thiel Foundation, helping launch the open-source browser Brave, and her time as CTO at Cointelegraph – and that’s just a few of the highlights Elissa and I discuss. We end the interview talking about AI, a subject Elissa is spending a lot of time on right now, and her experience meeting the founders of The Graph and working as an advisor in the very early days of the protocol.Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Denham Preen, Co-Founder at Float Capital, a peer-to-peer asset protocol, that provides leveraged returns without over-collateralization or liquidations. Float has recently garnered attention in The Graph ecosystem due to the launch of something the team is calling “Subgraph Uncrashable,” a framework that generates helper functions in your GraphQL schema that makes common subgraph bugs impossible. During this interview, Denham and I talk about his entry into crypto, the impressive web3 community emerging in South Africa and throughout the entire continent, the origins of Float and how it works, Subgraph Uncrashable, and the ways in which Float uses The Graph. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Kyle LaRue, a Graph Advocate and member of Graph AdvocatesDAO. Since joining the Advocates program, Kyle launched a very popular Advocates newsletter, called Advocate Spotlight, and other educational content.Kyle’s story will resonate with many listeners – he’s passionate about web3 and The Graph, but he has a career and has to pursue his web3 ambitions while being productive and attentive to his day job. During this interview, Kyle talks about what he does for work, how he became interested in crypto, the path he took to learning about The Graph, and then his journey into the community as an Advocates and DAO member.  Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com 

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Lorena Fabris. Lorena is a Graph Advocate and member of Graph AdvocatesDAO, and she is also hard at work building and supporting the Spanish-speaking community of The Graph ecosystem with Graph Espanol.In addition to her relentless contributions as a Graph Advocate, Lorena is a lawyer in her home country of Argentina and, most importantly, a mom. As with prior guests of the podcast, I am amazed at the time and effort Lorena contributes to The Graph and how she balances it with so many other obligations.During our interview, Lorena talks about her career in law, how she learned about crypto and the impact it’s having in Argentina, how she first became interested in The Graph during the Curation program, and the work she’s doing as a Graph Advocate, member of AdvocatesDAO, and leading Graph Espanol.Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com 

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Chidubem Okeke. In addition to being a Graph Advocate and member of Graph AdvocatesDAO, Chidebum is behind the recent launch of Graph Central, an all-in-one resource for community members seeking the latest information about GIPs, grants, and events.As you are about to hear, Chidubem is incredibly humble and kind. He is also another great example of why Graph Advocates and AdvocatesDAO are producing some of the most engaged and active members in The Graph ecosystem. Chidubem's story is another archetypal journey, with many common threads found in others' stories, for how regular people outside of crypto first hear about The Graph, enter the community, and then evolve into a high-impact contributor. During this interview, we talk about Chidubem’s background in entrepreneurship and e-commerce, his home country of Nigeria, how he first became aware of The Graph, and then how he went from an apprehensive attendee of The Graph’s 1st birthday event in Lagos, to hosting the birthday event only one year later. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com 

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Vincent Chee, a Web3 Full Stack Engineer working at Superfluid. Vincent and I first met after he presented during a Community Talk, and I immediately wanted to learn more about Superfluid and how the team uses The Graph. Superfluid is revolutionizing how payments in crypto can work and, as you’ll hear Vincent discuss, the ways we think about money. During this interview, Vincent talks about his time at university, during which he studied computer science, his move into Web3 and smart contracts, how he got started in Web3, and went to work at Superfluid. Then Vincent takes time to explain why he feels The Graph is an important tool for devs building in Web3 and how Superfluid uses The Graph.  Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com 

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with two members of the DappLooker team,  Abhinav Singh and Vikash Choubey. You may have already heard about DappLooker, they continue to receive a lot of attention for their contributions both within The Graph and the broader Web3 community.DappLooker started as a blockchain analytics solution that enables users to explore blockchain data and create charts and visualizations, all without needing to be technically oriented or knowing how to code. You’ve probably seen some of the charts and visualizations about The Graph that the DappLooker Twitter account consistently shares. In addition to providing these types of analytics, DappLooker recently launched an Indexer on The Graph.During this interview,  Abhinav and Vikash talked about the origins of DappLooker, how it works, and how you can use it, and then we talk about when they became interested in The Graph and why they decided to join the community and launch an Indexer. Similar to other interviews we’ve had on the podcast, the DappLooker story begins with someone simply using The Graph to get started building in Web3, and then developing the conviction to go deeper and join the community to become a contributor.Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com 

Leave feedback!Today I am speaking with Facu Spagnaulo, Co-Founder at Mimic, an innovative DeFi solution that makes interacting with DeFi simpler and safer through automation, customization, and smart vaults. As you’ll hear, Facu is incredibly humble and soft-spoken, but he’s not only worked with some of the biggest projects in DeFi, and his contributions have made a long-lasting impact in the space.During our conversation, Facu talks about his reluctant entry and calculated risk of moving into crypto, his time at OpenZeppelin, Aragon, and Balancer, and the lightbulb moment that started his entrepreneurial journey to starting Mimic. We also talk about when Facu first became aware of The Graph, where he shares his insights on the importance of The Graph along with how Mimic uses it.Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside Web3 and The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of the ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com