Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3

“There is so many different lore stories, or there was even Wikipedia is completely wrong.”

“why don't you make it so we can see all the submissions and then we can like vote up the best ones?”

“many people thought during that time it's portable. Why wouldn't you want something permanent?”

“a lot of Canvas art was actually worth less than things that were actually in a more permanent, you know, on the wood or on…”

“there is a very large subset of gamers that consider it was like more than 50%.”

“They consider their online identity in their games to be more important than their offline, like in person identity.”

“he was like, You're like one of the biggest web 2.0 companies. And like literally, I thought, is there a software I need to upgrade…”

“It was meant to be a cryptocurrency that could be used as a way to more or less give away for good deeds.”

“So I just made up a fake business name. I called it Foliage Software.”

“that's how I realized that all these companies were not based here. They were based, you know, most of them were kind of California Silicon…”

“I had discovered a vulnerability in Windows that was a way to spam people using this kind of uh internal messaging tool.”

“they call me the dark tipper as a joke, and then it just kind of like was a funny little thing on the on the…”

“he's like, hey, let's, you know, I'll come to the city because he was down in Palo Alto, and he's like, I'll come to SF…”

“he was very curious, and yeah, it was nice. It was like Mark was a nice guy.”

“We had no idea that that many people would show up.”

“it was a special moment for me because we didn't have a whole lot growing up, and my dad was really proud.”

“Called it tulips and basically said that you know, we can't the the fear, and and this is a valid fear back then.”

“I ended up investing in in Coinbase a little bit later personally.”

“he pulls out his phone and he literally does it right there on his phone. And he's like, Okay, done.”

“it was all because Ev added me to the suggested user list.”

“I'm actually going to be launching a new podcast, if I don't already have enough podcasts, that is dedicated to all things NFTs.”

“I can't please everybody, so I got I gotta break it.”

“we pride ourselves in trying to take as all the pressure off the entrepreneur.”

“Kevin, this is your company. Do whatever you want, man.”