WOMEN WHO WEB3: Artistry and the Entrepreneurial Spirit With Randi Zuckerberg and Debbie Soon
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, Kamz is joined by HUG’s CEO and Founder Randi Zuckerberg and Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer, Debbie Soon
Debbie Soon
Debbie is a Chinese-Singaporean immigrant who is passionate about increasing representation in Web3. Having spent her entire career both investing in and building multimillion-dollar consumer businesses, she's particularly excited about the intersection of Web3 and consumer. Now, she's the co-founder of HUG, where she's helping build a space for people to collaborate, connect, and interact with each other.
Prior to Web3, Debbie graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Economics and from Columbia University with a Masters in Financial Engineering. She then went on to build three businesses from scratch for one of the most successful unicorns in Southeast Asia.
Outside of helping break down barriers for equitable representation, she enjoys lifting weights, car karaoke, and pampering her 10-year-old dog, Guinness.
Randi Zuckerberg
Randi has always loved technology and the arts. As a Harvard graduate and early employee at Facebook, she helped shape Web 2.0 technology for billions of people worldwide.
Now in Web3, she's bringing her two loves together. Randi is one of the most prominent voices for women in the NFT space and is passionate about uplifting creators — that's why she founded HUG! She now gets to work with 50+ of the top emerging Web3 creators through the HUG Studios programs.
When she's not trading jpegs, she can be found at the theater or doing her best to unplug at home with her husband and three children who are now almost as obsessed with crypto as she is.
On this incredible panel, we discuss:
🤗 HUG and how it came to be
🌎 how to build a representative and truly inclusive web3 community and platform
🤝 the importance of building together through strategic partnerships
🫶🏽 How web3 projects can support and uplift underrepresented people and communities
🧘🏽♀️We end with a two-minute mindfulness exercise! :)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to CoinDusk's Women Who Web3 podcast, your weekly podcast, celebrating women supporting women, investing in women, and bridging the gender gap and wealth through Web3. |
| 0:15.2 | Blockchain technology can be anything. That's what they're doing. They're here to support other women. And they are supporting |
| 0:22.3 | themselves in the process. They said 70% of Latin Americans are underbanked or unbanked. 51% are |
| 0:29.6 | using crypto. And we actually have a country, Iceland, who is at 90% parity. And guess what they |
| 0:35.7 | have? 12 months maternity leave. Isn't that gorgeous? |
| 0:39.6 | Women, do you want to wait 132 years to have a year maternity leave? I don't. Go from can't to can't. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm your host, Cam's, and I'm on a mission to empower women across the globe to unlock the |
| 0:53.5 | unlimited potential and earning power |
| 0:56.1 | inside themselves through Web3. |
| 0:58.6 | Whether you're just Crypto Curious or a CryptoKineuse, this podcast is for you. |
| 1:04.6 | Let's get it. |
| 1:05.6 | Hi and welcome to Women Who Web3, Itchy Girl Cam's. |
| 1:14.9 | And on this week's show, we're graced with the presence of not one but two incredible women |
| 1:20.4 | in the Web3 space. Debbie Soon and Randy Zuckerberg. Debbie is a Chinese Singaporean immigrant |
| 1:27.3 | who is passionate about increasing |
| 1:29.0 | representation in Web3, having spent her entire career both investing in and building multi-million |
| 1:36.1 | dollar consumer businesses. She's particularly excited about the intersection of Web 3 and consumer. |
| 1:42.5 | Now she's the co-founder of Hug, where she's helping build a |
| 1:46.1 | space for people to collaborate, connect, and interact with each other. Prior to Web 3, Debbie graduated |
| 1:52.3 | from the University of Cambridge with a degree in economics and from the Columbia University |
| 1:57.7 | with a master's in financial engineering, she then went on to build three |
| 2:01.8 | businesses from scratch for one of the most successful unicorns in Southeast Asia. Outside of |
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