My conference Appearance
I was a bit nervous about doing this. But here it is. Back in October, I was a panel member for a small crypto conference in Austin, TX. They used my full name of course. The panel was ~30 minutes long and I thought I crushed my appearance for this panel.
Feel free to roast me, or to tell me my shit was lights out. I’m not particularly trying to hide my identity, but I’m also not super interested in attaching things to my IRL name, I value my privacy in a number of ways, and of course, I value my anonymity.
Also, it may seem like I was dominating most of the questions, that was intentional. The other panel member there (Mo) was a last-minute replacement as the original panel member had to duck out due to personal reasons a few days before. I’m not complaining as this gave me more time to ramble on (my favorite pastime).
A Job in Crypto
I recently started a position with a crypto startup at the beginning of January. I was excited of course, because my main goal has been to find a job in crypto to move away from my old career field. It was unfortunately either not a good match or not good timing, as only 2 weeks after I started I was let go. Things ended on a positive note, and I have no negative feelings towards them at all as my wings were clipped before I could really get started with them, but I will continue onwards. For those two weeks though I was essentially giving them most of my focus, and spending my free time mostly finding ways to be better at what I needed to do.
I will avoid stating any names of companies, but I instead want to take some time to again talk about just how broad the work streams within crypto are becoming. You do not have to be a coder nor do you need to know how to code to work in crypto.
This job was essentially a technical marketing role.
If we go all the way back to one of my first posts, you’ll remember that I spoke about how 90% of crypto social media is paid content. I got to take a peak behind the veil briefly at a startup that was focused on streamlining the social media and long-form written content that launches alongside new protocols, and new dApps. They’re wonderful at what they do. They approach clients, make a pitch to them, sign a service agreement and a retainer, hand over social logins, create a content plan, a content calendar, and then they get to work. Tweets, engagements, paying social media influencers to make content, but here’s the rub. There are very obvious accounts that make paid content and have a bad reputation for doing just that. There are other accounts entirely that are much pickier about making paid content, or typically refuse. Our job was convincing them to make content, either for free or to be interested enough that they’d be willing to accept payments. It is a far more organic means of generating social media content for crypto.
I enjoyed my brief time there, and I think that within those 2 weeks, I learned quite a lot. I’ve also come to terms with the fact that I will probably never get my Twitter account back, so I’m going to take what I learned and apply it to my new Twitter account and see what sort of engagement I might be able to farm if I treat this the same way I treated my job (while I briefly had it).
There are a million different types of jobs in crypto. Ask yourself, what do you do well? What does crypto need? What can you learn? And who can you meet? Spend a year focused on just those questions and expanding them in this sphere and the sky is the limit.
Nice to put a face to the name. Sorry to hear about the job, but good to see you posting again
i think i know you...good luck on the next project/journey/train !!!