@linda

I'm hoping this context helps make it clearer that @zinger's role is trader outreach and growth (not shilling tokens) because that's the *same* role I was temporarily rotated on. Even though I love to pitch in wherever I can, I communicated to Dan and Varun early on that this is an important role given Farcaster's direction and someone else who is actually a trader will be needed to fit the role long term as I'm just not a trader Zinger communicated this following part already publicly so I feel fine sharing it, he was on a work trial to see the fit for the trader outreach role. He clearly crushed it so he joined the team full-time and then announced publicly right after. I totally understand how people had the perception and wanted communication around it but I hope you can have some understanding that it's a weird position to announce you work at a company to all its users when you're in an interview process/work trial and the outcome of it isn't clear yet (I actually had a similar situation when I was doing a work trial at Merkle and had to reach out to users but was uncomfortable saying I was on a work trial since I didn't know the outcome and didn't want to reveal I/Daniel was considering getting acquhired while running Bountycaster) Now that Zinger is in this role, I've been able to move back to supporting the builder side where I have actual expertise on. So I'm incredibly grateful that Zinger is in the trader outreach role full time and is doing a FAR better job in it than I could possibly do. If he's posting about tokens in the feed, it's his passion and hobby not his role, in the same way I post a lot about my experiences and learnings from building in crypto

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