Daniel, can you hear me? I think you're on mute on the space. Yes. Hello, Daniel. Yeah, yeah, I can hear you now. Perfect. Hello, Jakub. How are you? All good. How are you?
Good, good, that's well. Nice to see you. Likewise, likewise, we're also on StreamYard, FII. Maybe we could drop the link in if people like to see videos as well.
Yeah, can Rui or Renjamin with your... Yes! ...the backstage jump on the space and then I can make them co-hosts and I think they should be able to do these things.
Perfect. So jumping this place. I'm in sort of a co-work here in Santiago anyway, it's still in Chile. It's a nice place, pretty good for working.
Cool, you have to, yeah. When are you planning to come to Europe? Would love to meet in real life at some point. Well, actually we want to go to its Paris. I think it is.
Yeah, I think that is in July. Yeah, so we could meet there. Not the good one. Not the good one. We're going to go to some side events. Oh yeah. Some good side parties. Perfect.
I think we can kick things off and when Benjamin and Christian jump on, they can share the stream yard link. I'd love to start with how was this idea initiated. I remember the first time I discovered it, I felt
like wow, this is like finity like web 3 social innovation something that hasn't really been done before. You know you get to see a lot of clones and I think they do have a place in this whole web 3 social ecosystem of these web 2 native apps because that's kind of what we're used to. So it doesn't make sense
for like onboarding people to try out things on Web3 social that sort of resemble what's on Web2 social. But Waves has done something that hasn't been previously done and it's enabled by Web3 side. Love to sort of get your story of how did you get Waves started.
It's a good story. The three founders are engineers and developers. So we've been trying to do some start-ups before in our own technology also.
And on my two partners, we're like getting their feed with in Web 3 social. And they were trying to figure out something to work with Lens Protocol, which is our Web 3 social app.
which is really nice and we've been working there in the last months. I think for me also there's something about that we're kind of bored already of the old social media like we
We need something new, we need something different to keep on going like this experience. So in that sense, we discover an opportunity which was to build a way in which you can promote yourself.