in 2009 i joined tumblr as its sixth employee and left after a year to start groupme. since post-groupme i've been pretty disenchanted with the state of social. until now. what's happening w consumer apps onchain is epic, fun, exciting, and filled w possibility and wonder.

in 2009 i joined tumblr as its sixth employee and left after a year to start groupme. since post-groupme i've been pretty disenchanted with the state of social. until now. what's happening w consumer apps onchain is epic, fun, exciting, and filled w possibility and wonder.
https://jared.xyz/social-media-onchain

@usv | jared.xyz | formerly founder of groupme and fundera 

Can't call it @objects

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ATL - NYC - MAP ◾️

Us tumblr kids that weren’t in NY/Silicon Valley when the platforms were made are organically minting on Zora

There’s a moment rn

🪖 product @ grayscale • elder millennial 👴🏼

One of the things I respected the most about their product development was they had a rule for every net new feature added they subtracted one that was least adopted. That customer centric calculus always felt very right to me. Too bad Y! messed things up.

I learned a ton from them. Had never worked at a legit tech startup before and they were warm and welcoming. David is also a genius and such a unique and special human being.

No way! I still have the GroupMe grilled cheese tee shirt from SXSWi… One of my favorite pieces of swag of all time. 

What was it like working with Marco, Jacob, and David?

Founder, product leader, boy dad. Prev @withfam & Talisman. FWB, Boys Club, Refraction

Minted! Thank you For storytelling and articulated vision :)

Liked reading this. Have you thought about old school social media’s amplification of divisive provocateurs and fear mongers—how those players might fair differently (better or worse) onchain? Elon Musk deleting “your account” sounds bad. YouTube deleting Alex Jones’s, IMO, less so.