For full course materials, assignments, and more, visit the Creator Economy course website https://creatoreconomycourse.xyz/.

Web3 - WTF?! Crypto is quickly becoming a part of the creator toolkit. In this workshop, you'll hear from Jesse Walden, founder and investor at Variant Fund, on where the "Creator Economy" and the "Ownership Economy" intersect. What is working for creators and consumers in crypto today? What are the remaining challenges and emerging opportunities? And where are we in the adoption cycle?

Jesse Walden is a co-founder and general partner at Variant, a first-check crypto fund investing in the ownership economy. Jesse led the firm's investments in Uniswap, Phantom, Mirror, Flashbots, Foundation, and others.

Previously, Jesse was an investment partner on the first crypto fund at Andreessen Horowitz and later led a16z Crypto Startup School, an educational program to help get builders started in the crypto space.

Prior to that, Jesse founded two startups aimed at helping creators capture more value directly: Cool Managers and Mediachain Labs. Cool Managers, founded in 2011, was an artist management firm that leveraged new tech platforms to help artists like Solange and Blood Orange reach their fans directly and run their businesses independently. Mediachain Labs, founded in 2014, was an early blockchain startup that built the Mediachain protocol for tracking ownership of digital media assets on public blockchains. Mediachain Labs was acquired by Spotify in 2017, where Jesse led blockchain R&D as a product lead.

What is the Creator Economy Course?
200 million people became creators in the last decade, transforming business and technology as we know it. Li Jin, Co-Founder and General Partner at Variant, has been a pioneer in this space and is a leading expert on the subject. In this course, she dissects the underlying fundamentals of this trend so you can apply it to your professional career: as a founder, builder, or investor.

These course videos and content are from Li’s highly-rated Creator Economy Course, held Spring 2021. While thousands of students applied to join the first cohort, only 150 students were accepted to the live course. Now, anyone can watch the course videos and access the reading materials to learn more about Building for the Creator Economy.

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