GEN C: From Web1 to Web3: Lessons from Tech Marketing Veteran Grad Conn of Avalanche
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this episode of “Gen C”, CMO of Avalanche, Grad Conn discusses everything from digital brand building to on-chain ownership rights, and shares insights from his decades of experience with Microsoft, Sprinklr and other tech companies.
CMO of Avalanche, Grad Conn is bringing decades of marketing experience from CMO roles at Microsoft and Sprinklr as well as his own tech startups to the pod. In this episode, he discusses Avalanche's approach to building a developer-friendly blockchain and draws parallels between Web3 and the early days of the internet.
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| 0:00.0 | And I think that if you're trying to sort of chase the latest trend in technology, |
| 0:04.0 | whether that's in the blockchain space or the PC space or the 2.0 space or whatever, |
| 0:09.1 | there's not going to be another Facebook. There's going to be other things. There's not going |
| 0:13.2 | to be another Instagram. They did that one. You're going to come with something new. TikTok came |
| 0:17.3 | along, nicely done. Potentially Vine could have had that one, but that was a close one, right? But there's like, if you can't, you can't just kind of try to be the thing that's |
| 0:25.1 | already out there. And so for my team, it's more about we are a platform and we're a protocol. And |
| 0:31.9 | as a platform and protocol, it's not our job to come up with the applications. It's our job to be a great place for people to build them. |
| 0:40.3 | Avery, here we are. |
| 0:47.3 | Episode 101. Just I'm glad we made it. |
| 0:50.3 | We're now starting our new century. |
| 0:52.3 | 101 Dalmatians, 101 Gen C episodes. |
| 0:55.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:56.4 | Today is a very interesting day. |
| 0:58.0 | Honestly, I feel like this week, it was Halloween, it was DeWally, it was daylight savings, |
| 1:02.0 | it was election week. |
| 1:03.1 | I think everybody might just need a nap. |
| 1:05.2 | I need more than a nap. |
| 1:07.0 | I might need an edible or something. |
| 1:08.5 | We'll figure that out later. And actually, Avery, |
| 1:12.0 | before we get to our guests, we think our audience will find really interesting. I mean, I just |
| 1:16.1 | have one, there's only one story to talk about today. We are coming to you on Wednesday, November |
| 1:20.3 | 6th, and the only story we could talk about is the election. Now, I don't want either of us to go |
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